A person dressed as a guard from the Netflix series "Squid Game" attends a season premiere event in Los Angeles, Calif., Dec. 12. Reuters-Yonhap

Netflix's Korean original series "Squid Game" Season 2 won the Best Foreign Language Series award at the 30th annual Critics Choice Awards, its website showed Sunday.

The Critics Choice Association announced the winner in Los Angeles on Friday (local time), marking the second time the popular series has won the award after it previously took home the honor in 2022 for its first season.

Its lead Lee Jung-jae won Best Actor in a Drama Series in 2022.

The second season follows protagonist Gi-hun (Lee), who abandons his plans to leave for the United States after winning the lethal competition. Instead, he stays in Korea with a resolute mission to end the deadly games once and for all.

Season 2 concludes with a cliffhanger, setting the stage for the complete story of "Squid Game" to unfold in Season 3, slated for release later this year. (Yonhap)