About the series
Would you stake your life for 40 million dollars (45.6 billion won)? We hear, with bewilderment and often contempt, news about people who did wild things for large sums of money — or not so large. But are we really so far from those willing to die, when even working an office job we give up such a huge part of our lives? Gi-hun and Sang-woo are childhood friends. Gi-hun ended up at rock bottom after being laid off. Sang-woo, having achieved success, ruined everything by embezzling company funds. The men agree to take part in a survival game for a huge prize. And, like many other desperate people, they find themselves in an absurdly cartoonish space where only one will survive…
