Squid Game season 1
The Recruiter dedicated himself to recruiting people for the Game. With few spots left in the Game, he approached Seong Gi-hun on the subway and offered him the chance to win money playing ddakji. When Gi-hun lost and could not pay him, the Recruiter slapped him, and this continued until Gi-hun won and the Recruiter paid him. Gi-hun refused the game card, and the Recruiter began to tell him everything documented in his life and gave him the card to think about the opportunity. Gi-hun phoned him to participate. A year later, Gi-hun finds the Recruiter playing with someone else and the Recruiter sees Gi-hun, realizing he won, gives him a smile and leaves on the subway.
Squid Game season 2
For three years, Gi-hun, with the help of his former loan shark and his team, dedicated himself to searching for the Recruiter in the subway. One day, Kim, the loan shark, and his partner Choi Woo-seok spot the Recruiter playing ddakji with someone, and when they left, they set out to follow him. The Recruiter buys 100 lottery tickets and loaves of bread, and in a park, he offers one of the two to homeless people. When the majority choose the lottery ticket over the loaf of bread, the Recruiter destroys all the loaves of bread in front of the homeless. Kim and Woo-seok follow the Recruiter, where he knocks them unconscious and takes them to an apartment where he forces them to play rock, paper, scissors with Russian roulette, during which Kim sacrifices himself and dies.
The Recruiter later locates and confronts Gi-Hun at his base of operations and explains that he was a guard and later a soldier in the Games and killed his own father, a player. The Recruiter justifies the games by calling the people who play them scum. He then challenges Gi-hun to play Russian roulette, with the condition that they don't spin the six-shooter's cylinder after each shot. The bullet ends up in the sixth chamber, which is revealed by Gi-hun surviving three turns going first. After a final taunt by Gi-Hun, who remarks that the Recruiter is nothing more than the game runners' "dog", he accepts his loss and instead of attempting to flee or killing Gi-Hun, shoots himself in the head. Before his death, the Recruiter leaves a contact card in his pocket for Gi-Hun to find the Frontman.
