Squid Game Ending Explained: Who Survives the Bloody Game?

The new series buzzing online is equal parts divisive, philosophical, and horrific.

Squid Game Ending Explained: Who Survives the Bloody Game?
Image: Squid Game. Credit: Netflix

The new gripping Netflix Korean drama, Squid Game, is on everyone’s mind these days. It is currently buzzing on social media here in Australia. It is equal parts divisive, philosophical, and brilliantly horrific. If you also followed this show and want to know what happened during its ending, you need to read on. Here’s an explainer of the ending of the show.



The series follows the story of a Korean man, Seong Gi-hun. He is addicted to gambling and has a huge debt. He is approached by a man who says that if Gi-hun plays the game, he will earn some good money. The alternative to winning is dying.

By ninth episode, Squid Game, Gi-hun and his childhood friend, Cho Sang-Woo, are just two surviving members of 456 people who started the game. All of them were in line to win 45.6 billion.

 

Who Won the Game

In the end, all viewers have just one question, who won the game. The short answer is Gi-hun. The long answer is Gi-hun and Oh II-nam. Another answer is no one. In the final game, Gi-hun and Sang-Woo are exhausted. By this time, Sang Woo had become a villain. Gi-gun, on the other hand, has found humanity and restraint within the Squid Game.

He doesn’t want to win the game but wants to help Sang-woo to get up. But Sang-Woo chooses death and kills himself. As Gi-hun is the last man standing, he apparently wins the game.

 

What Happened with Il-nam?

People thought II-nam died during the marble game round, but he survived as he was not at risk. Instead, he was one of the game creators. The Front Man was not in-charge. He was just a front man.

The truth revealed in Squid Game ending is that II-nam is the host of the games as he came up with the concept years and years before. He organized multiple games in a year and has been doing so for many years, so he has a lot of blood on his hands.

 

The point of the entire Squid Game series is that people have the capacity to be good no matter how the circumstances are. It’s what makes II-nam admire Gu-hun. He used the money he won to help Sang-woo’s family and chose to re-invent his life. We think Squid Game took a brutal path to teach the viewers a lesson about kindness. It could have been done another way.

 

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