When is Squid Game season 2 coming out?

Last Modified Mar 12, 2025 12:42 EDT
When is Squid Game season 2 coming out?
Squid Game season 2 visual. (Source: Netflix)


The second season of the South Korean survival thriller horror series Squid Game is set to release on December 26, 2024, on Netflix.


Hwang Dong-hyuk wrote, directed, and produced Squid Game for Netflix. Kim Joo-ryoung, Lee Jung-jae, Park Hae-soo, Wi Ha-joon, HoYeon Jung, O Yeong-su, Heo Sung-tae, and Anupam Tripathi are among the ensemble cast members.


To compete for a chance to earn a prize of ₩45.6 billion, 456 players, all severely impoverished, risk their lives to play a series of lethal kids' games in this covert competition. The series title is based on a Korean children's game of the same name.


What is the plot of Squid Game season 2?


Gi-hun returns and enters the game again, a year after winning the Squid Game in an effort to get even with the Front Man and end the game for good. The Front Man's brother, police officer Jun-ho, will accompany him and assist him in disrupting the game as well as in stopping and recovering his brother.


In order to make sure that as many people as possible may live, he will once more form teams with new players, including his friend Jung-bae. Now that he has complete control over the game after Il-nam's passing, the Front Man will attempt to convince Gi-hun that the true character of people prevents him from ending the games.


The cast of Squid Game 2


When is Squid Game season 2 coming out?
Squid Game season 2 poster. (Source: Netflix)


Kang Ha-neul, Lee Jin-wook, Park Sung-hoon, Yang Dong-geun, Jo Yu-ri, Kang Ae-shim, Lee Seo-hwan, Lee Jung-jae, Wi Ha-joon, Lee Byung-hun, and Im Si-wan are the main cast members of the second season of the series. In this season, three years after Gi-hun's victory in the Squid Game, he gives up on visiting the US and returns with a different plan.


What happened in Squid Game season 1?


In South Korea, Seong Gi-hun, a divorced parent and compulsive gambler who resides with his elderly mother, receives an invitation to participate in several kid-friendly games with the possibility of winning a substantial sum of money. Upon accepting the deal, he is led to an unidentified place where he is surrounded by 455 other players who are all experiencing severe financial difficulties.


The Front Man, dressed in a black mask and black uniform, is in charge of overseeing the games, and the participants are required to wear green tracksuits. They are constantly watched over by masked guards in pink jumpsuits. Soon after, the participants learn that losing a game causes them to die, and each death adds ₩100 million to the possible ₩45.6 billion grand prize.


While detective Hwang Jun-ho infiltrates the games as one of the guards in order to locate his missing brother, Gi-hun forms alliances with other players, including his childhood friend Cho Sang-woo and North Korean defector Kang Sae-byeok, in an attempt to survive the psychological and physical twists of the games.


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FAQs about Squid Game season 2

A. The second season of the South Korean survival thriller horror series Squid Game is set to release on December 26, 2024 on Netflix.

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A. The second season of the South Korean survival thriller horror series Squid Game will have 7 episodes. They will be released on Netflix on December 26, 2024.

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