Timeline

This is a **timeline** listing all of the events that have occurred in the Squid Games series thus far. It is incomplete and requires significant expansion.

The vast majority of the events takes place in 2020, with the main span of the 33rd Squid Game occurring around June 26 to June 30, while the first game happens around June 10. The epilogue of the final episode takes place in December 2021, a year after the games have ended.

## Before 1970

* 1940-1949: Kim Kyung-soon is born.
* February 11, 1945: Oh Mal-soon is born in Ssangmung-dong, Seoul.
* April 30, 1948: Park Mal-soon is born.
* August 20, 1949: Jang Seung-jong's father is born.
* December 15, 1950:
	+ Chae Bo-seong is born.
	+ Kim Il-ju is born.
* November 2, 1951: Mun Dae-hee is born.
* June 14, 1952: Jung Il-sik is born.
* April 21, 1957: Jang Seung-jong's mother is born.
* December 16, 1960: Cho Su-jin's father is born.
* June 23, 1965: Do Jung-soo is born in Gyeonggi-do.
* July 14, 1966: Mun Jang-ho is born to his father Mun Dae-hee and his unnamed mother.
* March 1968: Jung Il-sik starts attending Sanbon High School.

## 1970-1979

* February 16, 1970: Jang Seung-jong is born to his unnamed parents.
* 1971:
	+ February: Jung Il-sik graduates from Sanbon High School. He starts attending Mihwan University the following month.
	+ August 31: Chae Gang-sun is born to his parents Chae Bo-seong and Kim Il-ju.
* October 31, 1974: Seong Gi-hun is born in Ssangmun-dong, Seoul to Oh Mal-soon and his unnamed father.
* 1975: Cho Sang-woo is born to his unnamed mother.
* 1976:
	+ February 2: Hwang In-ho is born to his mother Park Mal-soon.
	+ Unspecified date in February: Jung Il-sik graduates from Mihwan University.
	+ May 23: Choi Woo-seong is born.
* October 21, 1977: Kim Yea-han is born.
* April 21, 1979: Park Min-hyuk is born to his mother Kim Kyung-soon.
* 1979-1980: Park Mi-hee is born.

## 1980-1989

* December 13, 1980: Kang Eun-ji is born.
* April 21, 1983: Kim In-hyeok is born.
* July 1986-June 1987: Ali Abdul is born.
* 1988:
	+ March: Chae Gang-sun begins attending Yangju Technical High School.
	+ Unspecified date: The inaugural Squid Game takes place, with No Hyun-woo, also known as Player 174, winning the competition.
* 1988-1989: Cho Su-jin is born.
* 1989:
	+ Jang Seung-jong presumably begins attending Gyeonggi Junior College.
	+ A man named Mun Jang-ho, also known as Player 129, wins the 2nd Squid Game competition.

## 1990-1999

* 1990:
	+ March: Seong Gi-hun begins attending Daehan Technical High School along with his childhood friend Cho Sang-woo.
	+ Unspecified date: Park Pil-sam, also known as Player 28, wins the 3rd Squid Game.
* 1991:
	+ March: Kim Yea-han starts attending Micheon Middle School.
	+ Unspecified date: A man named Jang Seung-jong, also known as Player 63, wins the 4th Squid Game.
* 1992:
	+ February: Chae Gang-sun graduates from Yangju Technical High School. He begins working as a transport driver for Hae-il Movers.
	+ September 13: Hwang Jun-ho is born.
	+ Unspecified date: A contestant named Cho Su-jin, also known as Player 187, wins the 5th Squid Game.
* 1993:
	+ February: Seong Gi-hun graduates from Daehan Technical High School.
	+ Unspecified date: A man named Choi Woo-seong, also known as Player 112, wins the 6th Squid Game.
* 1994:
	+ February: Kim Yea-han graduates from Micheon Middle School.
	+ Unspecified date: Kim Min-su, also known as Player 258, wins the 7th Squid Game.
* 1995:
	+ March: Park Min-hyuk begins attending an unnamed school.
	+ Unspecified dates:
		- Seong Gi-hun begins working as part of Assembly Team One at Dragon Motors.
		- Park Tae-jun, also known as Player 212, wins the 8th Squid Game.
* 1996: Kim Kwang-hyun wins the 9th Squid Game.
* 1997:
	+ Cho Sang-woo graduates from Seoul National University at the top of his class with a degree in Business Administration.
	+ Kim Yeong-cheol wins the 10th Squid Game.
* 1998:
	+ February: Park Min-hyuk graduates.
	+ March: Chae Gang-sun incurs an unspecified charge related to gambling.
	+ Unspecified dates:
		- Chae Gang-sun begins working as a transport driver for Lousy Movers after either quitting or being fired from his previous job.
		- Shin Jeong-ung wins the 11th Squid Game.
* 1999:
	+ March: Kim In-hyeok begins attending Poongsan Commercial High School.
	+ Unspecified date: Oh Jeong-nam wins the 12th Squid Game.
* 1999-2000: Choi Dong-guk is born to his parents Choi Woo-seong and Park Mi-hee.

## 2000-2009

* 2000: The 13th Squid Game is held.
* 2001:
	+ June: All of the participants in the 33rd Squid Game are born on or prior to this date, assuming the players and staff are all adults.
	+ Unspecified date: The 14th Squid Game is held.
* 2002: The 15th Squid Game is held.
* 2003: The 16th Squid Game is held.
* 2004: Park Hyun-ho, also known as Player 150, wins the 17th Squid Game.
* 2005:
	+ March: Cho Su-jin begins attending an unnamed school.
	+ November: Chae Gang-sun is arrested for a hit-and-run committed while drunk driving and is sent to prison.
	+ Unspecified dates:
		- Jang Seung-jong presumably begins working as a bus driver for Mukook Transportation.
		- Choi Jeong-hun, also known as Player 51, wins the 18th Squid Game.
* 2006: Son Jeong-hee, also known as Player 122, wins the 19th Squid Game.
* 2007: Choi Kyung-soo, also known as Player 229, wins the 20th Squid Game.
* 2008: Kim Seong-tae, also known as Player 376, wins the 21st Squid Game.
* 2009: Lee Jung-soo, also known as Player 127, wins the 22nd Squid Game.

## 2010-2019

* 2010: Lee Seong-su, also known as Player 325, wins the 23rd Squid Game.
* 2011:
	+ June: Seong Gi-hun and numerous other employees of Dragon Motors go on strike after being targeted in a mass layoff, occupying the automobile factory where they worked for a span of time.
	+ June 8: Seong Ga-yeong is born to Kang Eun-ji. Her father Seong Gi-hun is not present as a result of the strike at his workplace.
	+ June 8-29: Police storm the Dragon Motors factory, killing one of Gi-hun's coworkers in the process.
	+ June 29: Seong Gi-hun resigns from his job at Dragon Motors.
	+ November 15: Seong Gi-hun opens a restaurant called Ga-yeong's Chicken.
	+ Unspecified dates:
		- Kang Cheol is born.
		- Park Mi-kyung, also known as Player 115, wins the 24th Squid Game.
* 2012: A man named Bae Dong-il, also known as Player 33, wins the 25th Squid Game.
* 2013:
	+ Ga-yeong's Chicken goes out of business.
	+ A man named Lee Young-hoo, also known as Player 436, wins the 26th Squid Game.
* 2013-2015: Seong Gi-hun opens a snack bar that fails within two years.
* 2014:
	+ December: Chae Gang-sun is released from prison. He begins working for Banga Labor at some point soon after.
	+ Unspecified date: Kim Tae-woo, also known as Player 407, wins the 27th Squid Game.
* 2015:
	+ Seong Gi-hun begins working as a chauffeur.
	+ Hwang In-ho, also known as Player 132, wins the 28th Squid Game.
* 2015-2020: Hwang In-ho becomes involved in the operation of the Squid Games, eventually becoming the Front Man.
* 2016: Joo Seong-hun, also known as Player 173, wins the 29th Squid Game.
* 2017:
	+ May 27: Seong Gi-hun and Kang Eun-ji are divorced, with Eun-ji taking custody of their daughter Ga-yeong.
	+ December 21: Jang Seung-jong loses his job after getting into a car accident while driving under the influence.
	+ Unspecified date: A player with the last name Lee, a first name beginning with "Seo-", and the number 300 wins the 30th Squid Game.
* 2017-2020: Kang Eun-ji gets remarried to an unnamed man.
* 2018: The 31st Squid Game is held.
* 2019:
	+ December: Ali Abdul's employer begins to withhold his wages. He eventually loses two fingers to an infection as a result of overworking.
	+ Unspecified date: The 32nd Squid Game is held.

## 2020

* April 29-June 8: Han Mi-nyeo's child is possibly born.
* June 5: Hwang In-ho's rent is due.
* June 8:
	+ In the morning, Seong Gi-hun withdraws ₩50 million from his mother's bank account and wins ₩4.56 million from horse betting using it. He loses his winnings when he is chased down by loan sharks and pickpocketed by Kang Sae-byeok.
	+ On the evening, Seong Gi-hun is approached by a salesman who plays a game of *ddakji* with him. He gives him a business card with contact information for Squid Game.
	+ At night, Seong Gi-hun decides to participate in Squid Game after learning his daughter will soon be moving to the United States.
* June 8-9: Seong Gi-hun is picked up and sedated by Squid Game staff and taken to the island where the games take place.
* June 9-10:
	+ The 33rd Squid Game begins, with all 456 players participating in the games being made to sign a contract and have a photo taken of them before entering.
	+ Over two hundred players are eliminated in the first game Red Light, Green Light with Seong Gi-hun, Ali Abdul, and numerous others managing to survive.
	+ The surviving players hold a vote on whether to continue the games, with the majority barely voting to end them.
* June 11: Cho Sang-woo is dropped off with Ali Abdul in Yeouido. He lets him use his phone to make a call and gives him money for the bus fare.
* June 12:
	+ Early in the morning, Seong Gi-hun goes to a local police station to report the Squid Game to authorities. They do not believe him and force him to leave.
	+ After coming back home and not finding his mother, Seong Gi-hun walks around Ssangmun-dong and meets up with Cho Sang-woo. They discuss Sang-woo's debt and the circumstances around it.
	+ Seong Gi-hun receives a call from a 24-hour emergency medical center and learns that his mother has been hospitalized due to an untreated diabetic foot infection and will need surgery. She sneaks out of the hospital later that night.
	+ At night, Hwang Jun-ho visits the dorm of his missing brother In-ho, finding a Squid Game card on his desk.
* June 13:
	+ On a sunny day, Kang Sae-byeok visits her brother Cheol in the orphanage.
	+ Hwang Jun-ho obtains Seong Gi-hun's address.
* June 13-18:
	+ Ali Abdul confronts his boss over his unpaid wages and causes his fingers to be crushed in an industrial roller in the ensuing fight.
	+ Kang Sae-byeok visits a shelter for North Korean defectors, where she learns the broker tasked with smuggling her mother ran off with the money and that she will have to start over.
	+ On a rainy night, Cho Sang-woo's mother talks with her son on the phone. Right after, she is approached by Seoul police, who inform her of Sang-woo's financial crimes.
* June 14-19:
	+ The morning after talking with his mother on the phone, Cho Sang-woo attempts to commit suicide with a charcoal briquette stove. He is interrupted by a Squid Game worker who slips him a card with instructions for returning to the games.
	+ Ali Abdul instructs his wife to buy plane tickets for her and their son and return to Pakistan as soon as possible.
	+ Seong Gi-hun asks one of his friends to loan him ₩3 million but is turned down.
	+ Seong Gi-hun has a run-in with Oh Il-nam outside a convenience store. They eat *ramyeon* together and discuss his decision to go back to the games.
* June 18: Jang Deok-su is sent a card with instructions for returning to Squid Game.
* June 19-20: Jang Deok-su orders one of his underlings to gather as many men as possible by June 23 in an attempt to organize a heist on Squid Game. He instead reveals that he has betrayed him to a group of casino operators who are hunting for him and is killed by Deok-su as a result.
* June 20-22:
	+ On a rainy afternoon, Seong Gi-hun asks his ex-wife for money for his mother's hospital bills. Her husband offers him money on the condition that he not contact his family again but is punched by Gi-hun instead.
	+ At night, Seong Gi-hun comes back home after walking in the rain and meets Hwang Jun-ho at his residence. Jun-ho tries to question him about Squid Game. Gi-hun turns him down, claiming that he just made it up.
	+ Seong Gi-hun finds a card with instructions for returning to Squid Game.
* June 23:
	+ Numerous participants in the 33rd Squid Game choose to return and are picked up and sedated by Squid Game staff at midnight. Hwang Jun-ho begins tailing the van that picks up Seong Gi-hun.
	+ All of the returning players are brought to Maihui Port, where they are loaded onto a ship that sails to the island where the games take place.
	+ Hwang Jun-ho stows away on the ship headed to the Squid Game island. He kills a worker who discovers him and assumes his identity.
* June 23-25: Seong Gi-hun regroups with Oh Il-nam, Cho Sang-woo, and Ali Abdul in the Squid Game lobby. They decide to form a team for the upcoming games.
* June 25-26: Kang Sae-byeok investigates the vent system in the Squid Game facility with the help of Han Mi-nyeo. She discovers a room where workers are melting pots of sugar.
* June 26:
	+ The second game, Sugar Honeycombs, takes place after breakfast. The majority of the players pass this game, with seventy-nine players being eliminated. A manager is killed after taking off showing his face to a player who has taken him hostage and Hwang Jun-ho steals his mask.
	+ During lunch time, Jang Deok-su kills Player 271, discovering that the players can kill one another without being punished.
	+ Byeong-gi harvests organs for the organ trafficking ring and learns about the upcoming Special Game and the identity of the third game.
	+ Byeong-gi joins Jang Deok-su's gang 5 minutes before the lights go out.
* June 26-27: The Special Game occurs when Jang Deok-su starts a riot after lights out. Twenty-seven players are eliminated in the violence and Kang Sae-byeok joins the alliance with Seong Gi-hun's team.
* June 27: The third game, Tug of War, takes place. Seong Gi-hun's and Jang Deok-su's teams both survive, as do two other teams, while the rest are eliminated.
* June 27-28: Byeong-gi participates in the organ trafficking ring and snaps when he finds out that the Squid Game workers don't know what the next game is. He and all the rest of the participants in the ring are killed in the aftermath, with the exception of Hwang Jun-ho.
* June 28:
	+ The fourth game Marbles takes place. Ali Abdul, Ji-yeong, Oh Il-nam, and numerous other players are eliminated.
	+ The VIPs arrive to the Island, where they witness Player 069 committing suicide during the night.
* June 28 or later: Oh Mal-soon collapses while at home, possibly as a result of her untreated diabetes, and misses work for two days. She eventually dies.
* June 29:
	+ Hwang Jun-ho disguises himself as a waiter and serves the VIPs as they watch the fifth game. He manages to incapacitate one of them when he takes him to a private area and forces him to tell him everything he knows about the games.
	+ The fifth game Glass Stepping Stones takes place, with only Cho Sang-woo, Kang Sae-byeok, and Seong Gi-hun surviving to the next round. Sae-byeok is mortally wounded by a shard of flying glass after the glass panes are exploded at the end of the game.
	+ Hwang Jun-ho escapes from the island using diving equipment from the VIPs' escape tunnel. He is cornered by Squid Game staff on a nearby island, where he is shot off a cliff.
	+ The three last players, Kang Sae-byeok, Seong Gi-hun and Cho Sang-woo participate in the special dinner prepared for the finalists by the staff.
* June 29-30: During the night, Kang Sae-byeok succumbs to her mortal wound and then is killed by Cho Sang-woo.
* June 30: The sixth and final game, Squid Game, occurs. Seong Gi-hun and Cho Sang-woo fight. Sang-woo ends up killing himself for Gi-hun to win.
* June 30 or later: Seong Gi-hun returns home after winning Squid Game and finds his mother dead in her house.
* June 2020-December 2021: Seong Ga-yeong's stepfather moves to the United States, taking his family with him.

## 2021

* December 24 or earlier: Oh Il-nam invites Seong Gi-hun to meet him on the seventh floor of the Sky Building at 11:30pm.
* December 25: Oh Il-nam dies from his brain tumor at exactly midnight.
* December 25 or later:
	+ Seong Gi-hun visits a barber shop, where he has his hair cut and dyed red.
	+ Seong Gi-hun visits Kang Cheol at his orphanage. He takes him to Cho Sang-woo's mother so that she can care for him and leaves them with a suitcase containing a large portion of his winnings.
* December 26 or later:
	+ Seong Gi-hun makes plans to visit his daughter Ga-yeong in the United States and talks to her on the phone. He encounters the salesman who recruited him playing *ddakji* with a man in the subway and tries to chase him, failing to catch him and taking the Squid Game card from the man instead.
	+ Seong Gi-hun goes to the airport to catch his flight to Los Angeles and turns around at the last moment after calling Squid Game staff and realizing that they know his whereabouts.

## References

1. ↑ In "Front Man (episode)", the date on Jun-ho's phone is June 29. The final game probably happened the next day. As the games seem to happen on consecutive days, this means that they resumed around June 26, after players were taken by the staff on June 23 as seen in "Hell".
2. ↑ In "Hell", the date on Sang-woo's phone is June 11 after he and Ali are dropped off in Yeouido.
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 In the episode "Gganbu", Choi Woo-seong's player file shows that his wife Park Mi-hee and son Choi Dong-guk were born on August 1, 1953 and November 17, 1973 respectively, though they're listed as being 40 and 20 years old. The reason for this error is unknown.
4. ↑ While his resident registration number and birthday are shown as such, Kim In-hyeok's player file states that he was 42 years old as of 2020, though this would mean he was born around 1979 and would've attended high school when he was 20. This is most likely a mistake on the prop designers' parts.
5. ↑ Ali Abdul says that he is 33 years old in "Red Light, Green Light", putting his birthday between 1986 and 1987. However, there is a possibility that his stated age is in Korean years rather than international years, which would mean he was born between 1987 and 1988, as a year is added to a person's age in South Korea.