Hyun-Ju

“Everything was fine before I told people who I really am. Sure, some people thought I was a bit strange, but I never had any big issues. But once I told people I wanted to live as a woman and started transitioning, everything changed. My mom cried a lot, and my father stopped talking to me. I was fired from my job and lost all my friends. I wasn't done with the treatment and procedures, but I wasn't earning any money so my debt kept piling up. Although I felt liberated, my life... became so much harder.” During the Six Legs, Hyun-ju spends most of her watching time stopping Seon-nyeo from disturbing the others. As Seon-nyeo is unable to complete Paengi Chigi, she then has one of her religious-themed breakdowns. This causes Hyun-ju to snap, slapping Seon-nyeo hard twice - enough to make her nose bleed - and threatening to "kill her before her gods do". Seon-nyeo then succeeds in her game. 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