Lee was diagnosed with cancer and, after 13 long years of fighting the disease, she finally passed away at the age of 81 in her home in Uijeongbu, South Korea. The third season of Squid Game is on the way. Will Park Mal Soon appear in the series? Here’s what we know.

Sil, best known for playing Park Mal Soon in the second season of Netflix’s Squid Game, has died. She was 81. She had been diagnosed with stomach cancer just three months before her death, the Korea Herald reported.

Lee's death comes shortly after she disclosed her stomach cancer diagnosis three months earlier. Lee's diagnosis marked a painful return to the world of illness for the actress, who had previously been told in 1993 that she had Stage 4 breast cancer and had just a year to live.

Lee made her debut in the hit South Korean dystopian survival thriller Squid Game in season 2, playing the mother of former detective Hwang Jun-ho (played by Wi Ha-joon). Born 194

Sil, best known for playing Park Mal Soon in the second season of Netflix`s Squid Game, passed away at the age of 81 after battling stomach cancer. According to reports, Lee suffered from cardiac arrest at her family home on the morning of February 2 and was pronounced dead after being transferred to St Mary`s Hospital in Uijeongbu,

Actress Lee Joo-sil played the mother of undercover detective Hwang Joon-ho in “Squid Game”. She passed away at the age of 81, three months after being diagnosed with stomach cancer.