'Squid Game 2' Wins Best Foreign Language Series at Critics Choice Awards
Feb 09, 2025
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At the 30th Critics Choice Awards held in Santa Monica on the 7th (local time), 'Squid Game 2' won the Best Foreign Language Series Award. This is the first award Season 2 received at the global awards ceremony and is an achievement that wipes out the disappointment of being nominated for the Golden Globe last year but failing to win the award.
After competing with Apple TV+ 'Akapulco' and 'Pachinko2', Prime Video 'Citadel: Honey Bunny', Hulu 'La Marquina' and HBO 'My Brilliant Friend' Season 4, etc., they won the trophy. As a result, 'Squid Game' achieved the feat of winning the Best Foreign Language Series Award at the Critics Choice Awards until Season 2 following Season 1.
The Critics Choice Awards is an award ceremony organized by the American Broadcasting Film Critics Association (BFCA). Season 1 of the `Squid Game' won the Best Foreign Language Series Award and the Best Actor Award (Lee Jung-jae) at the 27th Critics' Choice Awards in 2022.
'Squid Game 2' is a story that revolves around a fierce confrontation between Ki-hoon (Lee Jung-jae) and Ki-hoon (Lee Jung-jae) participating in the game again for revenge. Since its release on December 26, it has recorded 1.281.9 billion hours of cumulative viewing time until the 9th, making it the second box office hit in the Netflix non-English TV show category. First place is Season 1 of 'Squid Game', which recorded 2.2 billion and 5.2 billion hours.
Meanwhile, season 3 of 'Squid Game' will be released on June 27.
mj.cho@sportschosun.com
