The story follows a host of down on their luck citizens forced to take part in some

deadly games with a chance to win an excessive amount of money.

The story starts off with the focus on Seong Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae), a lazy but
well-meaning man who’s living on the back of his elderly mother’s meagre income.
Gi-hun is a divorcee with a young daughter.

That night at a subway station, he meets a well-suited gentleman who offers to play
a fairly simple children’s game with a catch. If Gi-hun wins a round, he’ll be paid
10,000 won, but if he loses a round, the gentleman slaps him in return.

The Korean series Squid Game tells the story of a group of people invited to join a
team of 456 "players": they are all individuals who, for different reasons, have to
face serious economic problems and are looking for a last chance to put their way
back together. own life. A mysterious organization offers them this last chance,
inviting them to participate in six traditional games for children in exchange for
a cash prize of 45,700,000,000 won (about 33 million euros). Whoever loses, or
does not respect the rules of the game, will be eliminated. In the literal sense
of the term.

The Squid Game plot revolves around a core of 456 people who for various reasons
are all in dire economic conditions. On the run from loan sharks, wanted for fraud
or persecuted by banks, each of them has different reasons for wanting to reset
their lives. They are then invited one by one by a mysterious organization to
participate in a series of children's games inspired by classics such as "one, two,
three, star!" and many others less known to the Western public, with the promise
of a "decisive" cash win and capable of putting an end to any financial problem.
There is talk of 45.600.000.000 won (about 33 million euros at the current exchange
rate). There is only one problem and it is no small problem, the defeat will
coincide with a brutal and premature death.

A story of people who fail at life for various

reasons, but suddenly receive a mysterious invitation to participate in a survival
game to win more than 38 million US dollars. The game takes place at an unknown
location and the participants are locked up until there is a final winner. The
story will incorporate popular children's games from the 1970s and 1980s of Korea,
such as squid game, literal translation of its Korean name, which is a type of tag
where offense and defense use a squid-shaped board drawn in the dirt.

We are in South Korea. 456 people with financial difficulties compete with each
other in six traditional games for children, but risking their lives to win a prize
of 45.6 billion won. Everything revolves around the figure of the seven main
characters and their social status. Ki-hoon, a man who appears to have lost
everything after being fired from his job, Sang-woo, a man who gets into trouble
after stealing money from the company where he works, Deok-soo, a willing dangerous
man doing everything to win, Joon-ho, an undercover officer who decides to join the
group to find out the truth of the game, Kang Sae-byeok, a young North Korean
defector who needs money for her family, Han Mi- nyeo, a woman who doesn't mind
cheating, and Abdul Ali, a young
Immigrant

the series deals with important issues such as friendship which in many cases is
canceled out by the desire for money.