WARNING: SPOILERS ahead for Squid Game Season 2.
Gyeong-seok's daughter Na-yeon is a key background character in the highly anticipated squid game season 2. The first three episodes of squid game Season 2 sees Gi-hun return to Squid Game as Player 456 to get revenge on Front Man. It also introduces the new squid game character Gyeong-seok, played by Lee Jin-wook, who appears as Player 246 in the latest version of Squid Game.
As pictured in squid game Season 2, Gyeong-seok joins Squid Game to pay for his Daughter Na-yeon's medical care after she was diagnosed with blood cancer. He worked as an artist before joining Squid Game and was overwhelmed by the enormous costs of his daughter's cancer treatment. Like many of the other Squid Game Season 2 contestants, Gyeong-seok had strong financial motivations to participate in all of the deadly Squid Games.
Na-yeon is now without a father after Gyeong-seok's death
Na-yeon died valiantly helping Gi-hun
In one of the most shocking twists squid game Season 2, Gyeong-seok is shot and killed during the player uprising in episode 7, "Chingu-inga Jeog-inga". As he was one of several characters killed in the squid game season 2 finale, his daughter Na-yeon is now tragically fatherless, which almost certainly means that she has no one to help pay for her blood cancer treatments. Na-yeon died valiantly helping Gi-hun try to take control of Squid Game from the inside.
The conditions surrounding Gyeong-seok's murder make the tragic scenario even more horrific. After running out of ammunition, he begs the Rose Guards to spare his life and allow him to return to the Players' quarters. Without hesitation, and despite Gyeong-seok's request, the Pink Guard shoots and apparently kills the Squid Game rebel. It's entirely possible that No-eul was the Pink Guard who pulled the trigger who killed Gyeong-seok. Although he appears to be dead, there is still a chance that Gyeong-seok survived and returned to squid game season 3.
No-eul may try to take care of Na-yeon after learning her father died
She had a brief connection with her in season 2
No-eul is one of the most mysterious and complicated new characters in Squid Game Season 2. She had a notable interaction with Na-yeon at the beginning. squid game Season 2, when she handed him a lollipop at the carnival. Na-yoen gave her a drawing of her and No-eul in their bunny work attire, implying that No-eul might remember her from squid game Season 3, especially if Gyeong-seok really is dead. No-eul could take on the responsibility of looking after Na-yeon and even pay for her cancer treatments in future episodes of squid gamejust like Gi-hun takes care of Sae-byeok's brother Cheol in season 2.