Cho Sang-woo

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Evil-doer
Full Name	Cho Sang-woo
Alias	Player 218 Hyung (by Ali)
Origin	Squid Game
Occupation	Participant of the Squid Game Investment banker
Powers / Skills	Intelligence Manipulation Combat skill
Hobby	Participating in the Game. Playing.
Goals	Pay back his clients and not return to his mother empty-handed prior to his arrest. (partially succeeded) Win the Squid Game. (failed)
Crimes	Murder Fraud Fleeing from justice
Type of Villain	Traitorous Manipulator

“	When we were young we used to play like this and our moms would invite us to dinner. That won't happen again.	„
	~ Cho Sang-woo to Gi-hun Seong.

Sang-woo Cho (In Korean: 조성우, Cho Sang-woo) is the deuteragonist and final antagonist of the Netflix Korean drama Squid Game. He is Gi-hun Seong's childhood friend.

He was portrayed by Hae-soo Park. In the English dub, he was voiced by Stephen Fu.

Personality

Although Sang-woo is strong-willed, his willingness usually causes him to exploit certain situations in his own favor. He is also very manipulative and intelligent, not falling for tricks easily. Sang-woo acts as a good teammate up until the final few games, where he realizes he has to go rogue in order to win.

Despite his cruel and self-centered nature towards other players, even those he once considered to be his friends such as Gi-Hun and Ali, Sang-woo truly cared for his mother as she was his entire reason for joining the Squid Game in the first place. He also acknowledged Gi-hun's kind-hearted nature, evident by how he committed suicide so that Gi-hun could be the one to win all the prize money, which would help him support Sang-woo's mother.

Biography

Background

Sang-woo is the childhood friend of Gi-hun Seong. In their younger days, they would both play children's games such as the Squid Game and Red Light, Green Light.

Sang-woo studied at SNU's Business Administration section. After his graduation as the top of his class, he started to work as an investment banker, where he somehow stole money from some of his clients and lost it all in the stock market. Hunted by the law, Sang-woo applies for the Squid Game, a mysterious competition with a large sum of money as the prize.

Squid Game

He was initially a sceptic of the Squid Game, specifically the staff, because of the small doses of information he and the other 455 players had received. When he realized his friend Gi-hun also was a participant, he became wary, understanding that they'd eventually have to compete against eachother. After the first game of Red Light, Green Light concluded he longed to get out of the compound but after seeing the money accumulated during the game he flipped his opinion, voting no to stop the game. The game was still stopped, however, and he was dropped off in the middle of Seoul with Ali Abdul.

Seeing Ali's money problems, Sang-woo decided to pitch in and pay for his bus home. He later called his mother and lied to her about being abroad. Just as he was about of kill himself in his apartment, the game staff dropped off another invitation at his door, and he decided to rejoin the game.

Sae-byoek, another participant in the game, had earlier gone off to find out what the second game would be about. She disclosed with Sang-woo that the staff were melting something and that she could smell sugar while they were doing so. Sang-woo quickly figured out the game after seeing the shapes on the doors, but decided to keep it to himself, sending his "team" (now consisting of him, Gi-hun, Ali and Il-nam) to almost certain death as he picked the simplest shape to cut out of the toffee.

During the night, Sang-woo actively strove to fight off the attackers, specifically Deok-su and his crew. In the Tug of War game, Sang-woo saved the team by coming up with a last-second tactic. He later betrayed Ali, lying to him about how they could both make it out of the Marble game.

In the Glass Bridge game, Sang-woo killed another participant, seemingly for no reason, because they were spending too much time. The two remaining players other than himself (Gi-hun and Sae-byeok) became wary of this, and kept themselves away from him during the night. However, due to the wounds Sae-byeok had attained from the previous game, Sang-woo was able to slip through and kill her while Gi-hun was calling for help. Sang-woo rationalized the murder as an act of merciful euthanasia, which almost made Gi-hun want to kill him.

Sang-woo and Gi-hun eventually fought each other in the final squid game. At first, Sang-woo was very aggressive, constantly attempting to kill Gi-hun, however, he gave up as Gi-hun eventually overpowered him. When Gi-Hun attempted to forfeit the prize money so that they could both go home, Sang-woo commits suicide by stabbing himself in the neck, believing that Gi-hun was a worthier winner. Sang-woo also tells him to look after his mother. =

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