Does Cho Sang-woo return in Squid Game Season 2? Character's fate explored 

Netflix's highly acclaimed Korean series Squid Game Season 2 is finally back. After a long wait of three whole years, fans were finally given a new season, and the show has also been renewed for Season 3.

Squid Game follows players who find themselves in a mysterious competition where they have to survive different levels playing classic Korean games. Seems pretty fun, right? But the catch here is- if you lose, you die. The last person who manages to win all the games walks out alive and wins a hefty cash prize.

Park Hae-soo’s Cho Sang-woo was also one of the players in the game who wanted to win the prize money at any cost, and unlike Seong Gi-hun, he sacrificed anybody who came in his way.

Since Sang-woo died in Season 1, he IS not a part of Squid Game Season 2. However, he made a horrific cameo in Episode 1 in a nightmare Gi-hun had in one of the scenes.

More on Sang-woo's cameo in Squid Game Season 2 in our story.

Cho Sang-woo's cameo in Squid Game Season 2

While Cho Sang-woo was an important character in Season 1 who managed to reach the final game with Gi-Hun, he is not a part of Squid Game Season 2 because he took his own life in the Season 1 finale.

Fans got a cameo ( or his severed head's cameo) in Squid Game Season 2 Episode 1. Sang-woo was one of Gi-Hun's best friends since childhood, and he was often shown having conversations with his mother in Season 1.

While he was deeply enraged by his actions in Season 1, particularly Kang Sae-byeok's murder and his immoral behavior to win the prize money at any cost, he still cared and loved his friend deeply, which is why he was deeply affected by his death.

In one of the scenes in Episode 1, Gi-Hun has a nightmare where he sees the Front Man holding the severed heads of Sang-woo and Sae-byeok. This was because he cared for both of them dearly and somehow blamed himself for their deaths.

Who was Cho Sang-woo in Squid Game?

Cho Sang-woo was Gi-hun's childhood friend, but after losing everything in his business, Sang-woo was in a tight financial condition and could not look after his ailing mother.

Gi-Hun praises Sang-woo in front of the players multiple times because he was always at the top of his class in school and University. Gi-Hun also relied on Sang-woo as he believed he would help him and his allies during the game, and they would play like a team.

As the games progressed, Sang-woo was motivated by money and started caring less about Gi-hun. Before the last game, he fatally stabbed Syeong-baek because she was about to vote for the game to end, which would not get him the prize money.

Seong-baek's murder motivated Gi-hun to fight against Sang-woo in the finale game, but he could not kill his friend. Having realized that he had already lost too much and sacrificed his morals, Sang-woo fatally stabbed himself in the neck, making Gi-hun the winner.

In the final moments of Season 1, Gi-hun leaves Seong-baek's brother and the cash with Sang-woo's mother to look after both in the future.

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