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Cosmopolitan
28-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Cosmopolitan
Who Is Player 222 in ‘Squid Game' Season 3 - Who Is Jun-hee and Her Baby
Squid Game season 3 brought the game to an end for the final time, but it couldn't go out without a major twist or two. And the biggest one involved one of the players: 222. Just when you though the Front Man and his VIPs couldn't get more twisted, they made a major switch the games that definitely will change your POV of this whole game. Here's everything you need to know about Player 222 from Squid Game season 3. We first meet Player 222 in season 2 where we also discover that her name is Kim Jun-hee. She originally dated Player 333, Lee Myung-gi, who convinced her to buy a cryptocurrency called Dalmation that ended up being a scam and leading up their break up. It is later revealed that she is pregnant with their child and she discovered this before the games, but she had decided to keep the baby and decides to join the games to try to better their lives. In season 3, Jun-hee has survived multiple games and is slotted into the red team for Hide and Seek. She ends up switching teams with Myung-gi who says that he plans to come and protect her after he kills another player to keep himself alive. In the chaos of the game, Jun-hee's water breaks and she ends breaking her foot while going up some stairs. After finding a room to hide in, she gives birth to a baby girl with the help of Cho Hyun-ju (Player 120) and Jang Geum-ja (Player 149). Player 202 enters the room where she's given birth, but Hyun-ju ends up killing them before any of them are attacked. Hyun-ju ends up finding the exit and returns to tell them the good news, but is killed by Myung-gi in the process. Trying to protect them from Nam-gyu (Player 124), he quickly turns away and closes the door. Geum-ja and Jun-hee flee to find the exit and are soon are face-to-face with Geum-ja's son, Park Yong-sik (Player 007). Unable to kill anyone else, he tries to kill Jun-hee so he and his mother can continue on, but Geum-ja stabs him instead, killing him and allowing her, Jun-hee, and the baby to continue on. In episode 3, it is revealed that the game is Jump Rope. Unable to jump due to her broken foot, Seong Gi-hun (Player 456) tells her to stay behind and that he would come get her to help her get across. The Pink Guards also reveal that the baby is now an official player of the game and must also get across safely or die based off the rules of the game. Gi-hun crosses with the baby first and is successful, but is later blocked by the other players who are trying to complete the task. With time running out and her unable to cross on her own, Jun-hee accepts her fate and decides to jump off from the ledge as time runs out. After the jump rope game, a new twist is revealed. Jun-hee's baby is now Player 222. Furious, the other players try to kill her, but the Pink Guards reveal that players are no longer able to attack each other outside the games. Soon the final game is revealed: Sky Squid Game. Still furious with her joining the game, the other players try to kill her first. However, Gi-hun proceeds to protect her at every turn. Eventually, Myung-gi also joins Gi-hun, but they are soon the only three left. Myung-gi attempts to sacrifice the baby so that he can win the game. Gi-hun attacks him and Myung-gi eventually falls to his death. Unfortunately for Gi-hun, the button for the final round was not pressed before Myung-gi dies, so his death does not count. Gi-hun, in keeping his promise to Jun-hee, presses the button to start the new round and sacrifices himself so the baby, the new Player 222, is the official winner of the games. Hwang In-ho, AKA the Front Man, takes the baby after the end of the game and mysteriously disappears afterwards. Six months pass and Hwang Jun-ho returns one home one day to find the baby in his apartment with a credit card including all the money from the games. South Korean singer and actress Jo Yu-ri plays Jun-hee in Squid Game season 2 and 3. She is formerly a member of the girl group Iz*One and is also a solo artist. Unlike in other productions, the baby is fully CGI so we don't have credits for that one. But, ya know, at least it survived the games.
Forbes
27-03-2025
- Sport
- Forbes
Mikaela Shiffrin's ‘Special' 101st World Cup Win Comes On U.S. Soil
Standing at the base of Bald Mountain's lower Greyhawk run in Sun Valley on Thursday, a group of young girls dressed as Dalmation puppies clutched signs and cheered. There are plenty of bold fashion choices to be found in the crowd at an Alpine World Cup finals, and this year in Sun Valley was no different. But why Dalmations? The girls' clever costume was a nod to the major moment they were hoping to witness: Mikaela Shiffrin's 101st World Cup win. Thursday's World Cup finals slalom race was Shiffrin's first on home snow since capturing her historic 100th win in Sestriere, Italy, in February. It also marked her first U.S. race since her November giant slalom crash in Killington, where she suffered a puncture wound in her abdomen that required surgery and sidelined her for two months. Though a ninth (and third consecutive) slalom Crystal Globe wasn't on the line for Shiffrin Thursday, as she mathematically could not catch Croatia's Zrinka Ljutić in the standings, a victory was. Shiffrin landed on the top of the podium in three of her five Slalom races this season; if she is skiing her best, she's the favorite to win. Shiffrin and her team had identified a crucial number of World Cup points the 30-year-old would ideally earn in Sun Valley, which will help her starting position for next season. Securing those points would be the 'goal on paper,' Shiffrin told me before her race. 'But then my biggest goal, the emotional side of it, is I just want to be able to ski some of my best turns on home soil,' Shiffrin added. 'I know where I stand; I know that my very best skiing in slalom is fast, but anything aside from my best, then it's anybody's race.' Having drawn No. 2 at the bib draw on Wednesday evening at Sun Valley Lodge—an event in and of itself, ending in a fireworks display—Shiffrin, going second among 24 skiers, had the opportunity to set the tone early in the race. And she did, with a time (52.05) that ultimately none of the women was able to best. That meant Shiffrin would be the last in the start order for the second runs—and would thus know exactly what she had to do to walk away with a win. And what she did was win (1:45:92) by more than a full second (1.13), with Germany's Lena Duerr and Slovenia's Andreja Slokar rounding out the podium. Ljutić, who finished 10th in Thursday's race but did, in fact, capture the slalom Crystal Globe for the season, called Shiffrin's skiing 'out of this world.' Thursday's win didn't come easy; the race, in low light and soft, choppy snow conditions, was 'awe-inspiring' and 'hard fought,' Shiffrin said. And that comes after a season marked by adversity, one in which Shiffrin sometimes wondered if she should even be in the sport. She was diagnosed with PTSD following her crash, which caused her to miss four of 10 slalom events this season. But ending the season with a slalom win (her fourth in six starts) gives her the energy she needs to prepare for next season. There's just something different about winning on home soil. Shiffrin, who grew up in Colorado and describes attending World Cup races at Beaver Creek as a child among her 'formative memories,' treasured the opportunity to end her season in Sun Valley, which is hosting its first World Cup finals since 1977. (The last U.S. World Cup finals was in Aspen in 2017.) Sometimes, Shiffrin said, by the end of a grueling race season spanning the globe, skiers are 'just trying to get through' a World Cup finals. But this one felt different; charged. 'I have felt so much support from U.S. fans, and being able to return back home for the final races of the season is super exciting,' Shiffrin said. 'It's just cool to be here and share this atmosphere with the U.S. fans and so many young racers in this area who are so excited to be here.' Shiffrin's 100th win may not have come on home soil, but earning her 101st at home, at the World Cup finals no less, is 'pretty special,' she said. The cheers from the crowd were deafening, and she thought of the kids (she did, by the way, see the Dalmation puppies, on the Jumbotron on her first run) whose ski racing careers may have been sparked Thursday, just as her own was, watching World Cup races in Beaver Creek growing up. 'It's like 100 was this reset moment, and 101 is like a restart almost, and that's the way I'm trying to see it,' Shiffrin said. 'There's plenty of future left in my career hopefully, and I try to take it with the idea that it's not the end, it's not the beginning; it's somewhere in the beautiful middle.'
