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“ | I'm good at everything, except the things I can't do. | „ |
~ Han Mi-nyeo's catchphrase. |
Han Mi-nyeo (Korean: 한미녀), also referred to as Player 212, is one of the main characters in the first season of the Netflix series Squid Game. Mi-nyeo is a manipulative woman who joined the Squid Game to win the prize money to solve her financial issues. Initially allied with Jang Deok-su and his gang, she is betrayed and swears revenge on the gangster. This also causes her to join Seong Gi-hun and Cho Sang-woo's team.
She was portrayed by Kim Joo-ryoung. In the English dub, she was voiced by Stephanie Komure. In the Japanese dub, she was voiced by Yuka Komatsu.
Her Good Ranking[]
Her Heroic Deeds[]
- She helped Sae-byeok sneak in a bathroom vent to find out what the second game was.
- She saved Deok-su in the Dalgona game.
- Although she joined Deok-su's gang (and even got sexually involved with Deok-su), she did it solely for survival as they were the physically stronger team. There is also no evidence that she was an active participant in the riot since in the only moment she is spotted during the massacre, she is unarmed and hiding behind the gang.
- She helped Sang-woo and Gi-hun's team set up a barricade to protect themselves in case Deok-su's gang tried to start another riot.
- Before the Marbles game, she tried to warn Player 278 about Deok-su's traitorous behaviour, but he refused to listen to her (although she could've done it in hopes of separating 278 from Deok-su since she was desperate to find a partner for the next game).
- After being betrayed, she promised vengeance against Jang Deok-su (a PE) and became his main enemy. This culminated in her sacrificing herself to kill him in the Glass Stepping Stones game.
- This action saved the lives of the 5 players who were behind her in this game, as Deok-su was threatening the surviving players and blocking their way while refusing go on, which would end up killing everyone if the time ran out.
- She also made sure to humiliate Deok-su by pointing out his cowardice before killing him.
- By doing this, she managed to defeat her fears of dying as she could not stand around Deok-su cowardly threatening her life, along with the other players, to save his own skin, showing that she has standards.
- According to Kim Joo-ryoung (Mi-nyeo's actress), Mi-nyeo's loud, nasty and hateful behavior is a façade to hide her true emotions, as Mi-nyeo feels much more lonely, hurt, and scared than the others but at the same time doesn't want to show any weakness.[1][2] Taking this into account, her determination to stay in the games (even voting for them to continue) and her willingness to sacrifice herself to kill Deok-su are all the more admirable because she has to be incredibly brave to perform these actions while facing her immense fear.
Why She Doesn't Stand Out?[]
- Despite her sacrifice to kill the PE character of the first season allowing her to pass the baseline, she still fails the standards compared to Ali Abdul (who lacked any corrupting factors and saved Gi-hun during the first game) and Cho Sang-woo (who saved his entire team in the Tug-of-War game) and Seong Gi-hun (who in Season 2, returned to the games and helped hundreds of players survive Red Light Green Light). Her most admirable deed was sacrificing herself, which was not only common in the show but she also did it purely to get revenge on Deok-su and not out of heroism.
- She is way too jerkish, arrogant and rude to everyone, for her to be NPG let alone PG.
- She is rude to other women, calling Sae-byeok and Ji-yeong skinny and weak just to make herself look better in the eyes of others. She also threatened to burn Sae-byeok's eyes with her cigarette when the girl hesitated to reveal what she saw while sneaking in the bathroom vent.
- She was even xenophobic with Ali, who is the nicest person in the series, just because he mocked her when she lied about supporting Sang-woo's idea the entire time during the Tug-of-War game. She gets annoyed by the mockery and calls him an "illegal alien" because of his status of a migrant worker.
- Like Sang-woo and Sae-byeok, she votes for the games to continue after the first game, even after knowing that many players will die.
- When the masked staff only offers each player an egg and a soda for lunch, she is the one who suggests Deok-su that the gang should get in the line again to eat more, stealing the lunch of other players that are left with nothing.
- She is also very deceitful, constantly using lies for her advantage such as when she claims that she is "good at everything except the things she cannot do" to convince others to let her join their team or when she lies to the players before the Marbles game in order to have a partner.
- According to herself, she committed fraud five times in the past (although this could be another of her lies as she was trying to convince Gi-hun of her cleverness when she said this, so that he would accept her as a partner in the fourth game).
- Before killing herself with Deok-su, she pushes Jung Ming-tae to him causing Ming-tae to be pushed by Deok-su and falls of the glass, dying.
- Although its implied that she has a child, it's either part of her lies or it's off-screen. Additionally, despite having a good amount of screentime, Han Mi-nyeo's background and life outside the games was not explored deeply enough as there is no explanation as to how she went into debt that led her into playing the Squid Game like other contestants, making her past a complete mystery.
References[]
External Links[]
- Han Mi-nyeo on the Heroes Wiki
- Han Mi-nyeo on the Squid Game Wiki
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Kang Sae-byeok | Han Mi-nyeo | Ji-yeong |