Season 2 sees the return of champions in deadly matches

The first trailer for Squid Game season two has been released, thrusting viewers back into the deadly arena where champion Seong Gi-hun has returned to compete once again.

Three years after winning the deadly children’s game series, Gi-hun returns as Player 456 and is joined by hundreds of new players – and tries to lead them to safety.

The first season of the Korean drama follows a group of 456 desperate and debt-ridden people who fight to the death to win a huge cash prize.

It became Netflix’s the biggest series premiere everwas streamed by 111 million users in its first 28 days.

The trailer opens as sinister masked guards welcome a new cast of characters to the competition.

They were sent to participate in the first game, also familiar from part one: Red Light Green Light.

Despite Gi-hun’s efforts to coach the players to cross the finish line to safety, things take a dangerous turn.

As in part one, players have the right to vote to stop the game or continue playing. While Gi-hun encourages them to focus on “escape from this place”, the players ignore his pleas.

“One more game,” they chanted as cash prizes filled a giant piggy bank dangling above them.

“Gi-hun’s efforts to find out who these people are and why they do what they do is the core story of the second part,” said director Hwang Dong-hyuk.

Also returning are the mysterious black-masked Front Man, who oversees the games, and Hwang Jun-ho, the police detective who broke into the games last season to search for his missing brother.

Dong-hyuk previously said he felt “a lot of pressure” on how to make the second part “even better” after the show’s huge success.

Netflix has also announced that the third season will finally be released in 2025.

The second series of squid games will be released on Netflix on December 26, 2024.