HoYeon Jung Won a SAG Award for Squid Game, and Korea’s Blue Dragon Awards Still Call Her a Rookie

HoYeon Jung at the "Hope" photocall at the 79th Cannes Film Festival, May 18, 2026

Squid Game’s HoYeon Jung won a SAG Award, yet Korea’s Blue Dragon Film Awards list her as a rookie for Na Hong-jin’s Hope, her first Korean film.