Jo Yu-ri
조유리- Name
- Jo Yu-ri
- Born
- Not confirmed yet
Played Jun-hee, player 222, in the second and third seasons of Squid Game.
Their story
Glassy
Jo Yu-ri finished third on Produce 48 and spent the next two and a half years in IZ*ONE. Five months after the group's farewell she was back on her own, with WAKEONE behind her. Her first single album, Glassy, came out on 7 October 2021. It was a modest start, a single album rather than a full EP, released a few weeks before IZ*ONE would have turned three.
A waltz in two parts
In 2022 she turned one idea into two releases. Op.22 Y-Waltz : in Major, her first mini album, arrived on 2 June with the bright "Love Shhh!", and five days later the song won The Show, her first trophy as a soloist. In October the single album Op.22 Y-Waltz : in Minor answered it with "Loveable". The second mini album, Love All, followed in August 2023 with "Taxi".
Player 222
Then the music paused. Netflix's Squid Game cast her as Jun-hee, player 222, and season 2 arrived on 26 December 2024, with season 3 after it. When she returned to singing in July 2025 with Episode 25, almost two years after Love All, she said the show had not shaped the record, because filming was over before work on the album began. The title track, "Farewell for Now!", is pop-rock with a live band feel, and she had a hand in the lyrics, concept, visuals and styling. Back in April she had held her first solo fan concert in Seoul, already under the name Episode 25.
Where she is now
Acting now runs alongside the music. On 20 July 2025 Netflix announced Variety, a crime drama about the K-pop industry written and directed by Kim Yong-hoon of Mask Girl. Son Ye-jin plays an entertainment executive, and Jo Yu-ri plays Seung-hui, a fan who will go to any length to get close to her idol. Episode 25 is still her most recent album.