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| “ | First body I saw... my mother's. One day, I came back from school, and my mom was lying there, dead on the floor. And next to her... was my so-called dad with a knife. The next body that I saw... that was my dad's. And the person standing there holding the knife... that was me. He was a goddamn pastor too. And when he hit her and... did the things he did to me, he would talk to God. He'd always ask for forgiveness. Didn't pray on that day after he killed her. That was too much even for God, I guess. | „ |
| ~ Ji-yeong talking about her father. |
Ji-yeong's Father is a minor antagonist in Season 1 of Netflix's K-drama Squid Game. He was a pastor and an abusive husband and father. He killed his wife and was killed by his daughter, Ji-yeong, in retaliation.
Biography[]
Ji-yeong's father was a pastor and apparently devoted to his religion. However, he was a hypocritical fanatic who physically abused his wife and his daughter during her childhood. Every time after abusing them, he would pray for his sins to be forgiven.
One day, when Ji-yeong returned home from school, she discovered him next to her mother's corpse holding a knife, after he killed his wife by stabbing her to death. He did not pray the day he killed his wife, and Ji-yeong thinks her father knew he would never be forgiven for this murder. In retaliation, Ji-yeong killed him with a knife and went to jail for the murder.
Ji-yeong's father also was an indebted man. When Ji-yeong was eventually released from jail, she was approached by someone with a Squid Game card and she initially thought that this person came to collect her father's debts.
As a result of her father's abuse, Ji-yeong would have problems with religious people such as the Player 244 of the 33rd Squid Game, because it would remind her of her father.
Relationships[]
- Unnamed Wife - Victim
- Ji-yeong - Daughter, Archenemy and Killer
Trivia[]
- Ji-yeong's father may have sexually abused Ji-yeong, as she mentions him "doing the unthinkable" to her. Though given the lack of onscreen impact along with his lack of physical appearance, his actions heavily rely on Fridge Horror.
- The Father shares similarities with other villains:
- Park Yong-sik's father: Both are unseen characters who are abusive to their family.
- Seon-nyeo: Both are hypocritical religious people who constantly use God's name to justify their deeds. They're also very egotistical; the Father believed he could do whatever he wanted if he asked for God's forgiveness afterwords, while Seon-nyeo talks as if she's better than everyone else because she's religious.
- His existence is vaguely foreshadowed by his daughter mocking Player 244 for using Christian faith to justify his acts of killing 10 players of the adversary team, to which we would later learn that she find Player 244's behaviours a big deal because it's the same behaviours of her father to justify anything he did.
