Does Squid Game doll have a name?

• The creepy robot in "Squid Game" will introduce viewers to her boyfriend, Cheol-su, in Season 2.
• Young-hee and Cheol-su are well-known characters from 1970s South Korean textbooks.
• News of the robot doll's relationship has sparked a wave of jokingly envious tweets from viewers.

The creepy robot doll in the hit Korean series "Squid Game" is set to introduce viewers to her boyfriend in Season 2, Netflix announced on Sunday.

"A whole new round is coming," wrote Hwang Dong-hyuk, the show's writer and director, in a letter posted on the streamer's Instagram account, in which he teased some details from the show's upcoming season.

For one, audiences will get to meet Cheol-su, the boyfriend of the doll Young-hee, he wrote.

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As "Squid Game" actor Jung Ho-yeon said during an appearance on "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon," both Young-hee and Cheol-su are well-known characters from old South Korean textbooks.  

"When we were at school, there were characters. One is a boy, and one is a girl. The boy's name was Cheol-su, and the girl's name was Young-hee," she said on the show. 

According to the Koreaboo, the characters were often depicted as best friends in textbooks from the 1970s and 1980s. As Insider previously reported, the actual Young-hee statue can be found guarding the entrance to a horse carriage museum several hours from Seoul.

News of the robot doll's partner has sparked a wave of jokingly envious tweets from fans of the hit series.

"Yall i can't accept the fact that this doll has a boyfriend and i don't," one person tweeted.

—KangSeoHae's Assistant (@Seohaesahu) June 12, 2022

"The worst news of the day is hearing this doll has a boyfriend when a human being like me has no girlfriend," another Twitter user said.

—Adelowo Shamsudeen Opeyemi 🇳🇬 (@opeyemi_adelowo) June 12, 2022

In the show's first season, Young-hee was featured prominently in the game "Red Light, Green Light." Her role was to monitor the movements of players, who would be killed if they moved when they were not supposed to.

Hwang's post also stated that Gi-hun, the first season's main character, would be returning in the second season, along with the villainous Front Man. He also hinted that the "the man in the suit with ddakji" — the mysterious figure who tempts other characters in the show into playing a traditional South Korean game for increasingly high stakes — could also make another appearance.

Hwang did not provide a release date for the show's new season in the post. Following its premiere last September, "Squid Game" quickly became Netflix's most-watched original show. 

Lee Jung-jae, Park Hae-soo, Wi Ha-jun and Jung Ho-yeon, the cast of the widely popular Netflix series Squid Game, appeared virtually on Wednesday’s episode of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and talked about why the series has quickly become one of the streaming site’s most successful shows.

Fallon noted that Squid Game, which hit Netflix on Sept. 17, is currently No. 1 on the platform in 90 countries. The nine-episode series is about a group of players competing in children’s games for a cash prize — with deadly high stakes.

Of the success, Park, who plays Sang-woo, said, “I’m so thankful that so many folks are watching this through so many media outlets, but I feel [the success] even more at this very moment. It’s real. I feel it in my bones.”

Wi, who plays Jun-ho, added, “I definitely think part of the appeal is the Korean children’s games. That can be very original, refreshing and also shocking at the same time to the global viewers. I also feel like we did a good job expressing the true human nature of raw greed and human nature that took place inside the games, which I believe resonates with a lot of the audiences.”

One of the South Korean show’s most recognizable moments from the first episode is a dangerous version of the game “Red Light, Green Light.” During the game, a giant robotic doll detects each of the players’ movements and if the doll senses a player is moving after she says “red light,” then that player is immediately shot and killed.

Jung, who portrays Sae-byeok, explained that the doll actually originates from Korean school textbooks. She told the host, “When we were at the school, there were characters — one is a boy, and one is the girl. The boy’s name was Chulsoo, and the girl’s name was Younghee, and she’s the one.”

Despite its dark premise, the series has lighthearted moments that happened on- and offscreen. Lee recalled an improvised interaction between his character, Seong Gi-hun, and Jung’s Sae-byeok. He described a scene from the premiere in which Seong accidentally runs into Sae-byeok, who drops her coffee. “Typically you would just pick it up and hand it to her, but I noticed the straw on the ground, so I improvised and tried to stick the straw back into the cup,” Lee said. “I tried to do it multiple times. That made Ho-yeon crack up so hard that she couldn’t lift her head up.”

Park also shared that he has a personal connection to the series: “It was quite amazing because the premiere of Squid Game was at 4 p.m. KT, and the first time I got to meet my son was at 3:50 p.m.” He added, “So he is my lucky charm and a bundle of blessing for me. My friends and many people around me call him ‘Baby Squid.'”

Later on, the cast competed in a segment of “Schoolyard Games.”

Watch the interview below. 

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