Squid Game season 2
Gi-hun goes back in to end the games, and the Front Man plays alongside him.
The second season of Squid Game was released on Netflix on 26 December 2024. Three years after his win, Seong Gi-hun re-enters the games to end them, while the Front Man, Hwang In-ho, joins the players disguised as Player 001 under the name Oh Young-il.
Quick Facts
- Season number
- 2
- Showrunner
- Hwang Dong-hyuk
- Network
- Netflix
- Episodes
- 7
- Released
- 26 December 2024
Facts from the source article.
Background
Gi-hun spends two years hunting the Recruiter, who kills himself in a game of Russian roulette with Gi-hun. Hwang Jun-ho, who survived his fall from the cliff, searches the sea for the island with Choi Woo-seok and the boat captain Park, who is secretly working for the games. On the island Gi-hun is joined by his friend Park Jung-bae, the pregnant Kim Jun-hee and others, and new games include a six-legged pentathlon and Mingle. Among the new players is the rapper Thanos, Player 230. North Korean defector Kang No-eul works as a guard. Gi-hun leads an armed rebellion that In-ho betrays. The season set a Netflix record with 68 million views in its first four days and reached No. 1 in 92 countries; the third season, filmed back to back, followed in June 2025.
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