Item from Squid Game by Hwang Dong-hyuk
The giant doll with motion-sensor eyes who sings a children's song and kills everyone who moves — the most iconic image of the show.
Young-hee is the show's mascot and its most potent symbol. She's a giant version of a character every Korean person recognizes from childhood textbooks — blown up to enormous scale, fitted with motion sensors, and placed at the end of a killing field. She sings the children's chant in a cheerful voice while snipers use her sensor data to execute players. The doll doesn't know she's killing people. She's a machine performing a children's game. The horror is in the gap between her function (a prop in a schoolyard game) and her application (a targeting system for sniper fire). She represents everything the show does with childhood — taking something innocent and revealing the violence that was always hiding inside the structure. She's become the single most recognizable image from the show worldwide. Reproductions stand in public spaces. Her song is a meme. She's a children's character famous for facilitating mass murder, which means the real world has done to her exactly what the show depicted: turned something meant for children into something consumed for entertainment by adults.
A giant animatronic doll, several stories tall, modeled after a character from Korean elementary school textbooks. Wears a yellow top and orange dress with a peter pan collar. Her face is round and friendly with large eyes and pigtails. Her head rotates 180 degrees on a mechanical neck. Her eyes contain military-grade motion sensors. She is simultaneously adorable and terrifying.
Also known as: The Doll, RLGL Doll, Mugunghwa Doll