Kang Sae-byeok

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## Heroic Benchmark

### Alias

Player 067
Pickpocket (by Seong Gi-hun)
Older Sister ("Noona") (by Kang Cheol)

### Family

Kang Cheol (younger brother)
Unnamed mother
Unnamed father †
Unnamed older brother †
Unnamed grandparents †

### Allies

Gi-hun & Sang-woo's team
* Ji-yeong † (close friend)
* Seong Gi-hun (close friend)
* Cho Sang-woo † (formerly)
* Han Mi-nyeo †
* Ali Abdul †
* Oh Il-nam † (indirect killer; unknowingly)
* Player 276 †
* Player 196 †
* Player 244 †

Player 017 † (situational ally; briefly)
Jang Deok-su † (former mentor; formerly)
North Korean broker employer (situational ally)

### Enemies

Immigration agents (situational enemies)
Deok-su's gang

* Jang Deok-su † (archenemy)
* Player 278 †
* Player 040 †
* Player 303 †

10 Players of Team 5 † (situational enemies and victims)
Cho Sang-woo † (situational enemy and killer)

### Powers / Skills

High intelligence
Stealth mastery
Pickpocketing
Reflexes
Agility
Durability
High cunning
Resourcefulness
Insightfulness
Strategy
Teamwork
Knife-wielding
Combat prowess

### Goals

Buy a house, so she can get her brother out of the orphanage (posthumously succeeded through Gi-hun).
Get her mother out of North Korea.
Survive and win the Squid Game (both failed).

### Goodness Zone

Risking herself and joining the Squid Game to help her family.

### Type of Hero

Strong-Willed Amazon

**Kang Sae-byeok** (Korean/Chosŏn'gŭl: **강새벽**, *Gang Sae-byeog*), also referred to as **Player 067**, is the tritagonist of the first season of the Netflix series *Squid Game*. She is a young North Korean defector who escaped to South Korea and joined the Squid Game to help her family.

She was portrayed by model HoYeon Jung in her acting debut.

## Her Good Ranking

### Her Heroic Deeds

* She risked herself and pickpocketed money to give to a broker to help her family.
* She would visit her little brother Cheol in the orphanage and take care of him. When Cheol fought other children who told him that he had been abandoned by his sister at the orphanage, Sae-byeok reassured him that she would never leave him and would definitely find a way to reunite their family again.
* She joined the Squid Game to get her brother out of the orphanage and her mother out of North Korea.
* She stood up to Jang Deok-su many times during the games.
* She snuck in a bathroom vent to find out what the second game was, and told Han Mi-nyeo and Cho Sang-woo what she saw (albeit reluctantly).
* She helped her team set up a barricade to protect themselves in case Deok-su's gang tried to start another riot.
* She gave Gi-hun a bottle of water to help an apparently sick Oh Ill-nam.
* She befriended Ji-yeong and was very hesitant to accept her sacrifice in the Marbles game. Initially, she became angry and even asked Ji-yeong to play again (despite that if Ji-yeong won, it would cause Sae-byeok's death), then she cries for the first time in the series. After this game, while the players are eating, she still looks very depressed, mourning her friend's death while eating in silence.
* During the Glass Stepping Stones game, she told Gi-hun which glass to step on when he was confused.
* Despite being pretty stoic, untrusting and cynical throughout the show, she drops these traits after Ji-yeong's death and fully trusts Gi-hun, to the point that she even asks him to take care of her little bother if she doesn't make it out.
* She stopped Gi-hun from killing Sang-woo, saying that Gi-hun wasn't really a murderer.

### Why She Doesn't Stand Out?

* She massively 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).
* She is a pickpocket who stole money from people, although it was for her family, making this a minor prevention.
* She is lethal. This is seem when she threatened the broker employer for deciving her and (like Sang-woo and Mi-nyeo) she votes for the games to continue after the first game, even after knowing that many players will die.

## External Links

* Kang Sae-byeok on the Heroes Wiki
* Kang Sae-byeok on the *Squid Game* Wiki

## Navigation

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