Season 2 of the Netflix original series ‘Squid Game’ won the Best Foreign Language Series award at the Critics‘ Choice Awards, one of the representative American film and TV awards ceremonies. As it has won the trophy for two seasons in a row following Season 1 in 2022, global expectations for Season 3, which will be released in June, are rising.

Season 2 of ‘Squid Game’ was selected as the winner of Best Foreign Language Series at the 30th Critics’ Choice Awards (CCA) held at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, California, USA on the 8th (Korean time). On this day, it won the award, beating out strong candidates such as Apple TV+‘s ‘Pachinko’ Season 2 and ‘Acapulco’, Prime Video’s ‘Citadel: The Honey Bunny’, Hulu‘s ‘La Machina’, Netflix’s ‘Lydia Poet‘s Law’ Season 2, and HBO’s ‘My Brilliant Friend’ Season 4.

With this, ‘Squid Game’ has achieved the feat of winning the Critics‘ Choice Award for Best Foreign Language Series for two seasons in a row, following Season 1, which also won Lee Jung-jae the Best Actor Award in 2022. This is the third time a Korean drama has won this award, including ‘Pachinko’ Season 1 in 2023.

The Critics’ Choice Awards is an American pop culture awards ceremony that began in 1996, and is hosted by the Critics‘ Choice Association (CCA), the largest critics organization in North America. Along with the Golden Globes and the Screen Actors Guild Awards, it is considered a major indicator that significantly influences the outcome of the Academy Awards (film) and the Emmy Awards (TV).

‘Squid Game’ Season 2, which was released at the end of December last year, is a sequel series that was released three years after Season 1, which caused a global syndrome by setting the highest viewership record in 2021 history, and achieved No. 1 in all countries (93 countries) where Netflix ‘is the first’ to simultaneously achieve No. 1. In line with this, it ranked third in the all-time Netflix viewership rankings, following ‘Squid Game’ Season 1 and ‘Wednesday’ Season 1. In particular, season 2 achieved the unusual feat of being nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Picture even before its release.

Season 3 is expected to depict a full-scale confrontation between Ki-hoon (Lee Jung-jae), who lost his best friend in a game he re-entered with his own purpose, and Frontman (Lee Byung-hun), who hid his identity and entered the game. The season 3 teaser poster stimulates the curiosity of fans by revealing the giant murder doll ‘Young-hee’, the signature of ‘Squid Game’, and his new partner ‘Cheol-soo’.


Reporter Seungmi Lee smlee@donga.com

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