Hoyeon
Hoyeon (Jung Ho-yeon, 정호연) is a South Korean model and actress who became a global star as Kang Sae-byeok in Squid Game. She is 176 cm tall and works with BH Entertainment.
Beyond the screen.
Hoyeon, born Jung Ho-yeon, is a South Korean model and actress who became a world star almost overnight. She is best known as Kang Sae-byeok, Player 067, in Squid Game (2021).
She is 176 cm tall. Her blood type is A, and her agency is BH Entertainment.
Early life
Born on June 23, 1994, in Seoul, she began modelling as a teenager and finished as runner-up on Korea's Next Top Model in 2013.
Career and breakthrough
In 2021, she sent an audition video for Squid Game while in New York for fashion work. She won the role of Kang Sae-byeok, a North Korean defector who joins the deadly games to save her family.
Popular roles
Kang Sae-byeok remains her defining role: quiet, brave and heartbreaking.
Recent work and why fans love them
She is set to appear in the film Hope.
A career, chapter by chapter.
Selected drama roles
- Squid Game — Kang Sae-byeok / Player 067
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- Squid Game — Action & Adventure · Mystery · Drama
Stories to find them in.
Selected credits in the Oxfea collection.
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