Squid Game season 2? Get ready: it’s coming, says Netflix K-drama creator, ‘You leave us no choice’

Netflix has not formally announced a second season of its No 1 show, about desperados playing schoolyard games with a deadly twist

However, the Korean series’ creator Hwang Dong-hyuk has recently said: ‘There’s been so much pressure, so much demand and so much love for a second season’

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Squid Game cast members Lee Jung-jae (who plays Seong Gi-hun), Jung Ho-yeon and Park Hae-soo promote the Korean drama series in Los Angeles. Its creator, Hwang Dong-hyuk, has said there will be a second season. Photo: Reuters

Published: 12:49pm, 10 Nov 2021Updated: 6:49pm, 10 Nov 2021

The creator of Netflix’s Squid Game says the hit television series will be back for a season two, even though most television shows in South Korea run for just one season. Because of the show’s global success, Hwang Dong-hyuk said: “I almost feel like you leave us no choice.”

“There’s been so much pressure, so much demand and so much love for a second season,” he said at a red carpet celebration for the show on November 8.

“It’s in my head right now. I’m in the planning process currently. But I do think it’s too early to say when and how that’s going to happen. So I will promise you this, Gi-hun will be back and he’ll do something for the world,” explained Hwang.

Netflix has not formally announced a second season. The series, starring Lee Jung-jae as Seong Gi-hun and others in the ensemble cast, centres on people who are so desperate for money that they agree to take part in a series of schoolyard games with a deadly twist.

Hwang Dong-hyuk is the creator of Squid Game. Photo: AP

The dystopian survival drama from South Korea is said to have become Netflix’s biggest-ever television show. With that success has come global recognition for its stars.

Model-turned-actress Jung Ho-yeon is used to travelling for the fashion world. But this time when she flew from Korea to Los Angeles, she met her first fan at the airport, an immigration officer who asked her for her autograph.