Squid Game Season 2: The Ultimate Survival Game Returns

Park Sung-Hoon plays a transgender character, Cho Hyun-ju aka Player 120 in Squid Game Season 2,

The Korean star invited controversy after ‘mistakenly’ uploading a photo of a cover parody by a Japanese adult actor of the Netflix series,

While he apologised through his agency, internet users slammed him for the post.

 

Actor Park Sung-Hoon who received rave reviews for playing Cho Hyun-ju aka Player 120 in the recent hit Squid Game Season 2, has found himself under fire for allegdly posting NSFW content on his social media platform.
On December 30,

Park ran into trouble after a post in his Instagram stories started receiving flak.

The upload in question is a photo of a cover parody by a Japanese actor of the Netflix series.

Though the post was immediately deleted, it had managed to grab eyeballs by then.

One user wrote on X (formely Twitter), “is it part of squid game’s contract for the male actors to all be evil or something,” another one added, “atp u have to be disgusting man to be casted in squid game like its some criteria.” One comment read, “god just bestow all male squid game actors with the bubonic plague and make the cast all women next season.”

 

Agency statement

Soon after, Park’s agency, BH Entertainment released an official statement to the South Korean news outlet Newsen. It read, “Park Sung Hoon received many DMs on social media and accidentally uploaded it while checking DMs. The actor himself is also surprised and apologizes for making such a mistake in these times. He will be careful not to let something like this happen again.”

About Park Sung-Hoon in Squid Game 2

Park Sung-Hoon plays a transgender character who enters the game to acquire funds for completing her surgeries towards becoming a woman biologically. While she is shown to be a former soldier (sergeant) in the South Korean army, she eventually leads the attacking side when Seong Gi-hun plans a rebellion with the players. Park’s Cho Hyun-ju aka Player 120 has survived the latest season of Squid Game, and is expected to return in Squid Game Season 3.

“Squid Game” Season 2 ends on a massive cliffhanger with The Front Man (In-ho/Young-il, unbeknownst to Gi-hun) killing Jung-bae right in front of Gi-hun, leaving Gi-hun to scream in horror as the pink guards hold him down and force him to watch his friend bleed out.

Why did you decide to end the season here?

When I first wrote the story of Seasons 2 and 3 it was one long story arc. And I was originally planning to write this story across a span of about eight to nine episodes, but once I finished the story, it came to over 10 episodes,

which I thought was too long to contain in a single season. And so I wanted to have an adequate point where I could give closure as a second season and then move on with the third.

And when you look at Gi-hun’s story, all of his attempts that he puts in to stop the game: the first one being getting these mercenaries and trying to plant a tracking device, that goes to fail; the second attempt of trying to persuade people to vote so that they can leave the game, that goes to fail as well; and then the third and last attempt of bringing people together and causing the rebellion, it also all goes to fail.

So all of his failures lead to this heavy, heavy crisis of having to lose his very best friend, Jung-bae, at the hands of The Front Man. And when you think about Gi-hun’s journey, I thought that that was an adequate moment to put a stop and give him a little bit of closure along that long story arc. And then from that moment on, in the third season, having that sense of huge guilt and sense of failure weighing heavily on him — how is Gi-hun going to carry on his mission? That’s the story that’ll further unfold.

When can we expect season 3 to premiere and what can you tease about the storyline for the series final episodes

At this point anything I might say is going to be a spoiler so I want to be cautious.But what I can say is after Season 2 launches I believe we will be announcing the launch date for Season 3 soon.

I probably expect that to launch around summer or fall next year. But as for the storyline of the third season, Gi-hun having lost everything, including his best friend, and all of his attempts going to failure,

it’s now, what is he going to be like? What state is Gi-hun going to be in?

And what will he choose to do? Will he continue on with the mission?

Is he going to give up or persist? And so you’re going to meet our character Gi-hun at a very critical crossroads as we begin the third season. Gi-hun will not be the man he was in Season 2.

With Gi-hun and a good portion of other players having rebelled against The Front Man and pink guards in Season 2, will the show’s format change in Season 3? How will they be able to go back to the regularly scheduled Squid Game now that so many of the players have disrupted the system?

If you saw the hidden clip after the ending credits roll after the last episode of Season 2 if you watch that clip its going to give you a slight hint as to where Season 3 might take you. I think thats all I can say for now.

Which of the Season 2 games did you find the most satisfying to shoot and why?

I’d say the pentathlon. Not only was it the most challenging to shoot but I think after we had finished filming it, I enjoyed watching it myself the most. And especially so because within one round of games you get five smaller games. And as in Season 1 I wanted to showcase these actual children’s games that Korean people grew up playing, especially the ones that I grew up playing myself. With the way I got to show the world five different games in a single round, I would say the pentathlon was probably the most satisfying to shoot.

What do you want to tease about the remainder of the series?

With each episode its going to get better. With each season its going to get better and a more expanded story more intense story and definitely more entertaining.So just be sure to watch it until the very end.