Season 2 sees the return of the champion to the deadly games

The first trailer for the second season of Squid Game has been released, taking viewers back to the dangerous arena where champion Seong Gi-hun is back to play again.

Three years after his victory in a dangerous series of children's games 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 South Korean drama followed a group of 456 people, desperate and in debt, fighting to the death for a huge cash prize.

It was Netflix the launch of the biggest series ever111 million users were streamed in its first 28 days.

The trailer opens as the masked evil guards welcome the new characters to the tournament.

They were sent to their first game, and they are familiar with the first season: Green Light Red Light.

Despite Gi-hun's efforts to train the players to the finish line to be safe, things get dangerous.

Just like in the first season, players get to vote to stop the game or continue playing. Although Gi-hun encourages them to focus on “getting out of this place,” the players ignore his pleas.

“One game,” they shout, as prize money fills a giant piggy-bank hanging above them.

Director Hwang Dong-hyuk said: “Gi-hun's quest to find out who these people are and why they do what they do is the core story of the second season.”

Also returning is the black-clad Front Man, who oversees the games, and Hwang Jun-ho, a police detective who entered the games last season to look for his missing brother.

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

Netflix also announced that the final, third season will be released in 2025.

The second series of The Squid Game will be released on Netflix on December 26, 2024.