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Manipulation<br>
 
Manipulation<br>
 
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|hobby = Creating death games<br>
 
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|hobby = Creating death games.<br>
 
Playing.
 
|goals = Feel the fun and thrill of life again <small>(succeeded)</small>.
 
|goals = Feel the fun and thrill of life again <small>(succeeded)</small>.
 
|crimes = Mass murder<br>
 
|crimes = Mass murder<br>
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Slavery<br>
 
Slavery<br>
 
Abuse<br>
 
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Psychological abuse
 
|type of villain = Thrill-Seeking Mastermind}} {{Quote|Do you still believe in people? Even after what you've experienced? Do you know what the common ground between someone without money and having too much money? Life is just not fun! If you have too much money you can buy, eat and drink as much as you want, but at some point it gets boring. And at a certain point my clients started telling me that they no longer enjoy life. So we all sat down together and pondered; what else could we have fun in life? Do you still believe in people now?|Oh Il-nam to Seong Gi-hun.}}
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{{Quote|Do you still believe in people? Even after what you've experienced? Do you know what the common ground between someone without money and having too much money? Life is just not fun! If you have too much money you can buy, eat and drink as much as you want, but at some point it gets boring. And at a certain point my clients started telling me that they no longer enjoy life. So we all sat down together and pondered; what else could we have fun in life? Do you still believe in people now?|Oh Il-nam to Seong Gi-hun.}}
 
 
'''Oh Il-nam''' (In Korean: 오일남), also referred to as '''The Host''' or '''Player 001''', is the main antagonist of the Netflix Korean drama ''Squid Game''.
 
'''Oh Il-nam''' (In Korean: 오일남), also referred to as '''The Host''' or '''Player 001''', is the main antagonist of the Netflix Korean drama ''Squid Game''.
   
At first he seemed to be an ordinary old man who got to participate in the Squid Game as a destitute player. Because of his brain tumour, it seemed that he did not fully grasp the situation and was just enjoying the games as a way to have fun before his death. However, it was later revealed that he is the creator and host of the Squid Game, a true mastermind who been hosting the Squid Game for decades, later being followed by his successor, the [[Front Man]]. It's revealed that he wished to participate in the Squid Game as he knew it would be the last one before he died.
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At first he seemed to be an ordinary old man who got to participate in the Squid Game as a destitute player. Because of his brain tumour, it seemed that he did not fully grasp the situation and was just enjoying the games as a way to have fun before his death. However, it was later revealed that he is the creator and host of the Squid Game, a true mastermind who has been hosting the Squid Game for decades, later being helped by his right-hand man, the [[Front Man]]. It's revealed that he wished to participate in the Squid Game as he knew it would be the last one before he died.
   
 
He was portrayed by Oh Young-Su. In the English dub, he was voiced by Hideo Kimura.
 
He was portrayed by Oh Young-Su. In the English dub, he was voiced by Hideo Kimura.
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Although he is a cold-blooded host of many death games, he was always looking for new fun, and for this reason, the last death game he made while he was at the end of his life, the Squid Game, was so much fun to watch that he even participated in it himself.
 
Although he is a cold-blooded host of many death games, he was always looking for new fun, and for this reason, the last death game he made while he was at the end of his life, the Squid Game, was so much fun to watch that he even participated in it himself.
   
On his death bed, he explained to Gi-hun that being as wealthy as he was made him desensitized to everything since he never had to struggle or work for anything. However, he seems to have a genuine fondness for Gi-hun, helping him during the game as much as he can and even allowing Gi-hun to defeat him rather than continuing on to the end without any ulterior motive. During their friendship, he was also honest for the most part about himself, telling Gi-hun the truth about his past and even his name, only hiding his true role in the games from him. This suggests that Ill Nam truly did see see Gi-hun as his friend, possibly the first real one that he'd had in a very long time since the last time that Ill Nam is known to have friends was when he was a kid and would play the games that he loved so much with them.
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On his death bed, he explained to Gi-hun that being as wealthy as he was made him desensitized to everything since he never had to struggle or work for anything. However, he seems to have a genuine fondness for Gi-hun, helping him during the game as much as he can and even allowing Gi-hun to defeat him rather than continuing on to the end without any ulterior motive. During their friendship, he was also honest for the most part about himself, telling Gi-hun the truth about his past and even his name, only hiding his true role in the games from him. This suggests that Il-Nam truly did see see Gi-hun as his friend, possibly the first real one that he'd had in a very long time since the last time that Ill Nam is known to have friends was when he was a kid and would play the games that he loved so much with them. He is also implied to hold love for his family and allowed the players to go home by casting the deciding vote, showing an honorable side.
   
 
He also sees humans as despicable and selfish creatures at its core as shown when he points all the treachery and selfishness exhibited by the players during the duration of the Squid Games to survive and win the grand prize. He goes as far as to challenge Gi-hun in a gamble on his death bed to see whether or not bystanders would save a homeless man or not to prove his point.
It turns out that all of the squid games he hosted are children's games because he missed his childhood so much.
 
 
He also sees human as despicable and selfish creatures at its core as shown when he points all the treachery and selfishness exhibited by the players during the duration of the Squid Games to survive and win the grand prize. He goes as far as to challenge Gi-hun in a gamble on his death bed to see whether or not bystanders gonna save a homeless man or not to prove his point.
 
   
 
==Biography==
 
==Biography==
 
=== Background ===
 
=== Background ===
Oh Il-nam is an super rich financial tycoon who bored with wealth as he has everything in the world to the point that life gives him no more joy. To cure his boredom, he and others wealthy individuals, who mostly are his clients in his financial corporation, created the Squid Game.
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Oh Il-nam is an incredibly wealthy financial tycoon who is bored with wealth as he has everything in the world to the point that life gives him no more joy. To cure his boredom, he and others wealthy individuals who mostly are his clients in his financial corporation, created the Squid Game based off of games he played in his childhood when he was young and watched his own children play.
   
 
Ever since the game began in 1988, it has sprouted out in many version in many different countries where the rich elites can pour money to watch the death games full of desperate people trying to compete to the death to rid themselves of financial ruin for their sick entertainment and gambling. Il-nam rationalized this by believing that he was offering some fun in poor people's lives, believing that they suffered as much as wealthy people in terms of lacking purpose.
 
Ever since the game began in 1988, it has sprouted out in many version in many different countries where the rich elites can pour money to watch the death games full of desperate people trying to compete to the death to rid themselves of financial ruin for their sick entertainment and gambling. Il-nam rationalized this by believing that he was offering some fun in poor people's lives, believing that they suffered as much as wealthy people in terms of lacking purpose.
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Eventually, Il-nam suffers from brain cancer and decides to participate in the latest Squid Game for his own entertainment and in his own twisted desire to be like a kid again.
 
Eventually, Il-nam suffers from brain cancer and decides to participate in the latest Squid Game for his own entertainment and in his own twisted desire to be like a kid again.
   
=== Squid Game ===
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===Squid Game===
 
When he first met Seong Gi-hun as participation number 1 among four hundred and fifty-six participants, he mentioned that he had a tumor in his brain, so it can be seen that he is living a limited life due to a brain tumor. In the first game, Mugunghwa Flower Bloomed, when two hundred people were slaughtered and everyone in the crowd was in a panic and couldn't even say a word, he unintentionally led the crowd by showing himself brightly leading the game according to the rules of the game. Follow him and start moving to survive.
 
When he first met Seong Gi-hun as participation number 1 among four hundred and fifty-six participants, he mentioned that he had a tumor in his brain, so it can be seen that he is living a limited life due to a brain tumor. In the first game, Mugunghwa Flower Bloomed, when two hundred people were slaughtered and everyone in the crowd was in a panic and couldn't even say a word, he unintentionally led the crowd by showing himself brightly leading the game according to the rules of the game. Follow him and start moving to survive.
   
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In the Marble Game, he seemingly sacrificed himself by giving Gi-hun all his marbles so he can progress in the next round.
 
In the Marble Game, he seemingly sacrificed himself by giving Gi-hun all his marbles so he can progress in the next round.
   
After Gi-hun wins the game and billions of won, he is miserable as he lost his mother who died from her terminal illness and lost custody of his daughter as he were too late to win the money to pay for his mother surgery and prove his financial stability to the court to keep his daughter. The winning money has become worthless to him as he lost everyone he cares for and he barely touches it after a year of winning it, beside using it to pay back the loan sharks he owes the money to. While drowning his sorrow in a river with alcohol, he receives an invitation from a seemingly dead Il-nam to come a building complex. On his death bed, Il-nam reveals everything from the nature of the game to his role in creating it much to Gi-hun's rage as Il-nam treats people life like playthings for him and his rich elite. Il-nam then challenges Gi-hun in a final gamble that if a homeless man outside does not receive any help from the bystanders, it will prove his point as human are inherently selfish creatures and he will take all Gi-hun's winning money. However, if the homeless man gets help, Gi-hun will be allowed to kill him in any ways he likes for revenge. Eventually, the homeless man receives help and Gi-hun wins the bet. However, after Gi-hun expresses his smugness at proving Il-nam wrong about human nature, he realizes the old man finally passes away from his brain cancer, though probably not before he witnessed his loss. Later, after Gi-hun leaves, the Front Man goes to his apartment to pay his respects, and takes over as the new host of the Squid Game.
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After Gi-hun wins the game and billions of won, he is miserable as he lost his mother who died from her diabetes and lost custody of his daughter as he was too late to win the money to pay for his mother's surgery and prove his financial stability to the court to keep his daughter. The winning money has become worthless to him as he lost everyone he cares for and he barely touches it after a year of winning the games, beside using it to pay back the loan sharks he owes the money to. While drowning his sorrow in a river with alcohol, he receives an invitation from a seemingly dead Il-nam to come a building complex.
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On his death bed, Il-nam reveals everything from the nature of the game to his role in creating it much to Gi-hun's rage as Il-nam treats people life like playthings for him and his rich elite. Il-nam then challenges Gi-hun in a final gamble that if a homeless man outside does not receive any help from the bystanders, it will prove his point as human are inherently selfish creatures and he will take all Gi-hun's winning money. However, if the homeless man gets help, Gi-hun will be allowed to kill him in any ways he likes for revenge. Eventually, the homeless man receives help and Gi-hun wins the bet. However, after Gi-hun expresses his smugness at proving Il-nam wrong about human nature, he realizes the old man finally passes away from his brain cancer, though probably not before he witnessed his loss. Later, after Gi-hun leaves, the Front Man goes to his apartment to pay his respects.
   
 
==Gallery==
 
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*According to the archives discovered by Jun-ho, the Squid Game takes place annually; The first game took place in 1988 and the most recent one took place in 2020. This makes Il-nam responsible for thousands of deaths, spanning thirty-two years.
 
*According to the archives discovered by Jun-ho, the Squid Game takes place annually; The first game took place in 1988 and the most recent one took place in 2020. This makes Il-nam responsible for thousands of deaths, spanning thirty-two years.
 
*Oh Ill-nam's name means "Number One Man", which explains why his player outfit says "001".
 
*Oh Ill-nam's name means "Number One Man", which explains why his player outfit says "001".
*At the time of his death, Il-nam seemed to be roughly in his 80s or 90s, which would have made him in his late 50s to early 60s when the first game began.
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*At the time of his death, Il-nam seemed to be roughly in his 80s or 90s, which would have made him in his late 50s to early 60s when the first game began. His advanced age meant that he grew up through the Japanese occupation of Korea and the Korean War, which could have desensitised him towards death.
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*He shares numerous similarities with [[Hyōdo Kazutaka]] from ''Kaiji''.
***However, unlike Hyōdo, Il-nam appears to pity the poor rather than outright disdain them. Il-nam also appears to have a genuine attachment towards Gi-hun, even telling him he wanted him to win because he valued their time together while Hyōdo seems to have completely dismissed Kaiji as “trash”, even becoming furious when he survived one of his gambles as well as unable to accept that he won fair and square in any gambles. Furthermore, Il-nam never seen abusing his employees or being slave-driving like Hyōdo but most all he genuinely wants to give the poor people, the way out of their financial situations while Hyōdo mostly just wants to enslave people.
 
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**Both are elderly socialists who have grown bored with life due to their wealth.
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**Both organize elaborate death games for the destitute to participate in with the promise of financial security.
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**Both grow to have an unusual fascination towards their series’s respective protagonist.
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**Both share an overall poor opinion on humanity.
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**Both at one point engage in their own games, appearing to have equal footing with the other players when in reality they have the odds tipped in their favor.
 
***However, unlike Hyōdo, Il-nam appears to pity the poor rather than outright disdain them. Il-nam also appears to have a genuine attachment towards Gi-hun, even telling him he wanted him to win because he valued their time together while Hyōdo seems to have completely dismissed Kaiji as “trash”, even becoming furious when he survived one of his gambles as well as unable to accept that he won fair and square in any gambles.
   
 
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Do you still believe in people? Even after what you've experienced? Do you know what the common ground between someone without money and having too much money? Life is just not fun! If you have too much money you can buy, eat and drink as much as you want, but at some point it gets boring. And at a certain point my clients started telling me that they no longer enjoy life. So we all sat down together and pondered; what else could we have fun in life? Do you still believe in people now?
~ Oh Il-nam to Seong Gi-hun.

Oh Il-nam (In Korean: 오일남), also referred to as The Host or Player 001, is the main antagonist of the Netflix Korean drama Squid Game.

At first he seemed to be an ordinary old man who got to participate in the Squid Game as a destitute player. Because of his brain tumour, it seemed that he did not fully grasp the situation and was just enjoying the games as a way to have fun before his death. However, it was later revealed that he is the creator and host of the Squid Game, a true mastermind who has been hosting the Squid Game for decades, later being helped by his right-hand man, the Front Man. It's revealed that he wished to participate in the Squid Game as he knew it would be the last one before he died.

He was portrayed by Oh Young-Su. In the English dub, he was voiced by Hideo Kimura.

Personality

Although he is a cold-blooded host of many death games, he was always looking for new fun, and for this reason, the last death game he made while he was at the end of his life, the Squid Game, was so much fun to watch that he even participated in it himself.

On his death bed, he explained to Gi-hun that being as wealthy as he was made him desensitized to everything since he never had to struggle or work for anything. However, he seems to have a genuine fondness for Gi-hun, helping him during the game as much as he can and even allowing Gi-hun to defeat him rather than continuing on to the end without any ulterior motive. During their friendship, he was also honest for the most part about himself, telling Gi-hun the truth about his past and even his name, only hiding his true role in the games from him. This suggests that Il-Nam truly did see see Gi-hun as his friend, possibly the first real one that he'd had in a very long time since the last time that Ill Nam is known to have friends was when he was a kid and would play the games that he loved so much with them. He is also implied to hold love for his family and allowed the players to go home by casting the deciding vote, showing an honorable side.

He also sees humans as despicable and selfish creatures at its core as shown when he points all the treachery and selfishness exhibited by the players during the duration of the Squid Games to survive and win the grand prize. He goes as far as to challenge Gi-hun in a gamble on his death bed to see whether or not bystanders would save a homeless man or not to prove his point.

Biography

Background

Oh Il-nam is an incredibly wealthy financial tycoon who is bored with wealth as he has everything in the world to the point that life gives him no more joy. To cure his boredom, he and others wealthy individuals who mostly are his clients in his financial corporation, created the Squid Game based off of games he played in his childhood when he was young and watched his own children play.

Ever since the game began in 1988, it has sprouted out in many version in many different countries where the rich elites can pour money to watch the death games full of desperate people trying to compete to the death to rid themselves of financial ruin for their sick entertainment and gambling. Il-nam rationalized this by believing that he was offering some fun in poor people's lives, believing that they suffered as much as wealthy people in terms of lacking purpose.

Eventually, Il-nam suffers from brain cancer and decides to participate in the latest Squid Game for his own entertainment and in his own twisted desire to be like a kid again.

Squid Game

When he first met Seong Gi-hun as participation number 1 among four hundred and fifty-six participants, he mentioned that he had a tumor in his brain, so it can be seen that he is living a limited life due to a brain tumor. In the first game, Mugunghwa Flower Bloomed, when two hundred people were slaughtered and everyone in the crowd was in a panic and couldn't even say a word, he unintentionally led the crowd by showing himself brightly leading the game according to the rules of the game. Follow him and start moving to survive.

He was unintentionally in charge of the last one vote because the game replay voting was conducted in reverse order of number, and the previous two hundred votes were split evenly, so he exercised a very important vote. He picks "X" and opposes it by a majority, so the game is stopped, and after that, he goes back to his daily life, but after realizing that "the reality is even more hell", he changes his position and decides to participate in the game again and rejoins the game. After rejoining the game, he picked a star shape, one of the difficult shapes in the dalgona lottery game, and managed to remove the shape with a troubled expression.

In the Marble Game, he seemingly sacrificed himself by giving Gi-hun all his marbles so he can progress in the next round.

After Gi-hun wins the game and billions of won, he is miserable as he lost his mother who died from her diabetes and lost custody of his daughter as he was too late to win the money to pay for his mother's surgery and prove his financial stability to the court to keep his daughter. The winning money has become worthless to him as he lost everyone he cares for and he barely touches it after a year of winning the games, beside using it to pay back the loan sharks he owes the money to. While drowning his sorrow in a river with alcohol, he receives an invitation from a seemingly dead Il-nam to come a building complex.

On his death bed, Il-nam reveals everything from the nature of the game to his role in creating it much to Gi-hun's rage as Il-nam treats people life like playthings for him and his rich elite. Il-nam then challenges Gi-hun in a final gamble that if a homeless man outside does not receive any help from the bystanders, it will prove his point as human are inherently selfish creatures and he will take all Gi-hun's winning money. However, if the homeless man gets help, Gi-hun will be allowed to kill him in any ways he likes for revenge. Eventually, the homeless man receives help and Gi-hun wins the bet. However, after Gi-hun expresses his smugness at proving Il-nam wrong about human nature, he realizes the old man finally passes away from his brain cancer, though probably not before he witnessed his loss. Later, after Gi-hun leaves, the Front Man goes to his apartment to pay his respects.

Gallery

Trivia

  • According to the archives discovered by Jun-ho, the Squid Game takes place annually; The first game took place in 1988 and the most recent one took place in 2020. This makes Il-nam responsible for thousands of deaths, spanning thirty-two years.
  • Oh Ill-nam's name means "Number One Man", which explains why his player outfit says "001".
  • At the time of his death, Il-nam seemed to be roughly in his 80s or 90s, which would have made him in his late 50s to early 60s when the first game began. His advanced age meant that he grew up through the Japanese occupation of Korea and the Korean War, which could have desensitised him towards death.
  • He shares numerous similarities with Hyōdo Kazutaka from Kaiji.
    • Both are elderly socialists who have grown bored with life due to their wealth.
    • Both organize elaborate death games for the destitute to participate in with the promise of financial security.
    • Both grow to have an unusual fascination towards their series’s respective protagonist.
    • Both share an overall poor opinion on humanity.
    • Both at one point engage in their own games, appearing to have equal footing with the other players when in reality they have the odds tipped in their favor.
      • However, unlike Hyōdo, Il-nam appears to pity the poor rather than outright disdain them. Il-nam also appears to have a genuine attachment towards Gi-hun, even telling him he wanted him to win because he valued their time together while Hyōdo seems to have completely dismissed Kaiji as “trash”, even becoming furious when he survived one of his gambles as well as unable to accept that he won fair and square in any gambles.

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Masked Men
The Host | Front Man | Masked Managers | Masked Soldiers | Masked Workers (Number 28) | The Salesman | The VIPs

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Cho Sang-woo | Jang Deok-su's Gang (Jang Deok-su | Byeong-gi | Player 278 | Player 040 | Player 303)

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Loan Sharks | Ji-yeong's Father | Gang Member

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