[K-enter] "Squid Game 2" wins Best Foreign Language Series at the Critics Choice Awards in the U.S.

Time for our daily dose of K-enter news with Walter Lee.

Starting off with news on Squid Game season 2.

The Netflix series Squid Game 2 has won the "Best Foreign Language Series" at the 30th Critics Choice Awards held in Los Angeles last Friday, a major ceremony in the U.S. film and television industry.

Squid Game first made history in 2022 by becoming the first Korean drama to win at the Critics Choice Awards with its first season. At the time, Squid Game won "Best Foreign Language Series", while lead actor Lee Jung-jae received the award for "Best Actor."

The awards are organised by the Critics Choice Association, a group of over 600 film and television critics from the U.S. and Canada.

Meanwhile, Squid Game 3 is set to be released on June 27 and it will be interesting to see if the series can make it a hat trick in the "Best Foreign Language Series" category.

Congratulations to Squid Game and we all can't wait for that third season to come out.

Now, moving onto some news on Rosé.

I feel like we should call this segment, K-enter and Rosé as she has to be one of our favourite people to report on.

But our Rosé has once again claimed the top spot with her collaboration track "APT". feat. Bruno Mars on the "Billboard Global 200 chart" released on Saturday.

"APT" climbed one spot from No. 2 last week to reclaim the No. 1 position.

Meanwhile, Rosé’s "APT" continues to dominate the ranks of the "UK Official Singles Chart" currently sitting at the No. 2 position.

Fellow BLACKPINK member Jennie also made her entry into the UK chart, debuting at No. 64 with "Love Hangover", the pre-release track from her solo album.

It's such a proud moment for Korea to see K-pop doing well in the Western charts.

Staying with news on K-pop we move now to boy group Stray Kids.

On Sunday evening, boy group Stray Kids' music video "God’s Menu" became the first by a 4th-generation K-pop boy group to surpass 500 million views with a single music video. "God’s Menu" is on their first full-length album "GO LIVE", released in June 2020.

Just two days before "God’s Menu" hit 500 million views, the music video for "Thunderous" from their second full-length album "NOEASY" surpassed 400 million views on Friday.

.Stray Kids is also breaking records with their concerts.

Stray Kids' world tour "dominATE", is set to draw a record-breaking 2.2 million attendees, making it the most attended K-pop tour in history for a single tour.

Kicking off back in August 2024, dominATE includes 55 concerts across 34 cities worldwide. This is Stray Kids’ largest tour to date, with additional shows added due to overwhelming demand, including their first solo concerts in Latin America and Europe.

Stray Kids don't show any signs of slowing down anytime soon!

Thanks for the K-enter news Walter, don't go anywhere. And now we turn to our AI anchor Ari for more culture news.