Hyun-ju 120 (diva)

Intro Cho Hyun-ju (Korean: 조현주), also known as Player 120, is a character in both the second and third seasons of South Korean Netflix drama Squid Game. In the series, she is a highly skilled and highly trained ex-Special Forces soldier until she was discharged after coming out as a trans woman, further losing family support and employment. She joins Squid Game to win money in order to support her gender-affirming surgery and possibly move to Thailand to live as a kathoey, and befriends multiple characters, including a woman named Kim Young-mi. She was created by series creator Hwang Dong-hyuk and portrayed by Park Sung-hoon, a cisgender man. Hwang expressed difficulty in finding a trans female actor in South Korea, citing how South Koreans treat trans people as a reason for casting being difficult. Park worked with trans people in order to portray the character accurately, hoping to avoid caricaturing her. Also he love boys and his good friendis young-mi who died in round and round. bye my pookies.