He is the head of the Squid Game hierarchy, initiating and managing the competition of people in severe debt for a prize of ₩45.6 billion.

He has a younger half-brother, Hwang Jun-ho, also a police officer, who infiltrated the games in the first season to search for In-ho as he had gone missing.

The Front Man was created by Hwang Dong-hyuk and was portrayed by Lee Byung-hun, who assisted in developing the character.

When it is his turn to throw the spinning top in the Six-Legged Pentathlon, he purposely wastes the team's time but still manages to gain their trust.

At night, In-ho tells Gi-hun a story based on truth, in which his wife, who was dying from a liver condition, fell pregnant, and in an attempt to save both her and her unborn child by getting her a liver donor, he accepted money from a criminal that was misinterpreted as a bribe and was kicked out of the police force.

Gi-hun realizes that there will be a fight that night and hatches a plan to rebel before the organizers, leaving In-ho perplexed.

[1] Hwang stated that the final results pleased him, calling the Front Man's decision to become a player the most important aspect of the second season.

[1] He specifically cited the scene in which he killed a man to ensure his and Jung-bae's survival during the sixth episode as one where all three sides of the character come out, calling it a "rush of mixed emotions.

[3] Lee describes the Front Man as wanting to cause Gi-hun to have a change of mindset, to share his distaste for the world.

[4] Gizmodo writers Germain Lussier and Cheryl Eddy praised the "carefully calibrated duplicity" giving Lee a "juicy part to dive into.