The Devil's Plan데블스 플랜

The Devil's Plan (데블스 플랜) is a South Korean brain-game survival show on Netflix. It's made by producer Jung Jong-yeon (정종연), whose earlier shows include The Genius and The Great Escape; it was his first Netflix original and his first show after moving to TEO, the production company of Kim Tae-ho (김태호).¹² Players live together for seven days on a sealed set, competing for a prize of up to ₩500 million.³

Each player starts with one Piece, wins and loses Pieces in the day's games, and is eliminated on running out; the two with the most Pieces meet in a best-of-three final. Season 1 paired competitive main matches with cooperative prize matches that built the pot, and sent the two players with the fewest Pieces to prison after each main match.⁴⁵ It premiered on September 26, 2023 with 12 players and 12 episodes, and actor Ha Seok-jin (하석진) beat science YouTuber ORBIT (궤도) in the final to win ₩250 million.⁴⁶

Season 2, The Devil's Plan: Death Room, premiered on May 6, 2025 with 14 players. Half of them now slept in a prison ward each night and played an elimination match in the "Death Room".⁷ Jeong Hyun-gyu (정현규) won ₩380 million, beating actress Yoon So-hee (윤소희) in the final.⁸ Season 3, The Devil's Plan: Dead Again, brings back both winners among 16 players and premieres on November 10, 2026, with 14 episodes over three weeks.⁹ DabPop's explainer lists every match of the first two seasons.

Season 1 reached No. 3 in Netflix's global Top 10 for non-English TV and No. 1 in South Korea, and made the Top 10 in 23 countries. Season 2 spent one week in the global list, at No. 9, and peaked at No. 3 in South Korea.¹⁰¹¹¹²