POP Cho Sang-Woo 218 (Squid Game)

Cho Sang-Woo is, so to speak, the intellectual of the Seong Gi-Hun gang. It is true that the character is brilliant enough to have studied in the most brilliant schools before joining one of the most prestigious multinational companies.

Before joining Squid Game and meeting Seong Gi-Hun again, whom he had not met for years, the two men had been childhood friends. Friends who, afterwards, had lost sight of each other and found each other in the worst possible circumstances. The fact of knowing each other allowed them to team up quickly, the two men composing the core of the group they formed thereafter.

Promised to a brilliant future, Cho Sang-Woo will nevertheless have flown too close to the sun and the fall was then relatively brutal. Enough anyway that he found himself participating in the terrible Squid Game. Of all the candidates participating in the games, he is by far the most indebted. The sums that he borrowed are estimated in several tens of millions of dollars. An amount that he will never be able to repay. Too proud to tell his mother, he would rather risk his life in the Squid Game than face his creditors.

Even after voting to quit the game after the shock of the first round, a brief return to reality naturally led him to try again, even if it meant risking his life. Even if it meant risking his humanity. Unlike Seong Gi-Hun, Cho Sang-Woo is more calculating and secretive in his plans. This does not necessarily make him a Machiavellian, but a man who will prioritize his interests over friendship and camaraderie. Because of all his intellectual skills, the character will naturally pass the Squid Game tests with greater ease than other candidates. This, in turn, will lead him to help his classmates advance through him. Everyone has their own opinion about Cho Sang-Woo. Everyone will also agree that he will play a significant role in the series.

The Funko POP Cho Sang-Woo 218 figure does not represent him as he appears during the first events. From the look of his outfit and his face, the Cho Sang-Woo 218 POP figure represents him as he was during the fifth event. Contrary to what the jersey he wears over the green and white tracksuit of the Squid Game candidates suggests, Cho Sang-Woo does not wear the number fourteen as a candidate. This number will only be attached to him at the time of the fifth round because of his running order.

Usually very presentable and clean-shaven, the character, with the Cho Sang-Woo 218 figure, appears as he is in the last episodes of the series. We will see him unshaven and neglected, deteriorating both physically and morally episode after episode. This feeling of progressive decay, then, will be transcribed wonderfully on the Funko POP Cho Sang-Woo 218.