, a 2008 film, directed by Kong Suchang, opens with Sergeant Major ‘Seong Gyunoh’ leading a team of Korean soldiers on a mission to investigate a guard post located on the border between North and South Korea. Seemingly deserted, the post soon reveal a slew of unexplained dead bodies. The group eventually encounters the lone survivor, who alerts them of a danger lurking, a deadlyvirus that awaitseveryone. Unlike most zombie films, this one has a well-defined plot and well-roundedcharacters.
A high school girl (Kim Jiwon) abducted by a killer (Yoo Yeonseok) is forced to tell him four horror stories to stay alive. Amongst the four
, the last story revolves around a zombie outbreak in the city where five survivors board an ambulance, but are they all unaffected?
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, a 2014 release, starring Baek Seobin, Kim Seunghwan, Ha Eunsul, Kim Kyeongrong, Park Jaehoon, Cha Minjee, Seo Joon, and Lee Solgu, is a horror-action film about ‘Chilsung school’ where students team up against the teachers who turn into zombies after being bitten by zombie pigs.
, depicting how the South Korean zombie outbreak began. A young runaway girl must strive to survive in a world that sees her as trash in this film set in and around Seoul Station.‘Suk Gyu’ is looking for his runaway daughter ‘Hye Sun’ who he discovers is still alive and earns a living as a prostitute. A zombie apocalypse hits Seoul just when he’s about to reunite with her.
A 2016 horrific zombie-thriller follows a group of terrified passengers stuck inside a blood-soaked bullet train as they try to make their way to a safe zone while battling a countrywide viral outbreak. Gong Yoo, Jung Yumi, Ma Dongseok, Kim Suan, Choi Wooshik, Ahn Sohee, and Kim Euisunge share screen space in the film, which premiered in the ‘Cannes Film Festival”s ‘Midnight Screenings’ segment
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Begins with a plague of insanity and continues to do so as a stranger comes intoa small village and a mystery illness spreads. Police sergeant ‘Jong Goo’ (Kwak Dowon)is caught inthe situation and compelledto solvethe mystery in order to save his daughter. Jong and the local police are perplexed bya series of grotesqueincomprehensible murders and the killers who all appear to have zombie-like symptoms, crazy, inhuman, bloodthirsty, and demonic.
This 2018, South Korean zombie movie directed by Kim Sunghoon blends historical politics with supernatural elements. Prince of Joseon, ‘Lee Chun’ (Hyun Bin) is charged with treason against the court and exiled to a remote placein the country. When he returns, he discovers that the stories of a group of rebels trying to usurp the country are untrue andcomes across flesh-eating zombies who run rampant wreaking havoc at night.
Is about ‘Hyun Woo’ (Jung Garam) a zombie who surfaces as a result of an illegal human experiment that goes wrong. A Korean family meets Hyun, the zombie, and plans to make a profit out of him, especially after discovering their ‘old’ father’s regained masculinity is a result of the zombie’s bite. Only ‘Hye Gul’ (Lee Sookyung), the youngest daughter in the family, starts liking Hyun and names him “Jjongbie, the pet.” The film was released in 2019 and was well received by the audiences.
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) a 2020 thriller directed by Yeon Sangho, a former soldier ‘Jung Seok’ (Gang Dongwon) and team set out on a mission to retrieve a truck carrying USD 20 million from the Korean peninsula, now inhabited by zombies. As part of the 25th ‘Busan International Film Festival’, the film was screened in the Panorama section on October 21st, 2020.
, a 2020 release, starring Yoo Ahin and Park Shinhye, is about a city under threat following a zombie outbreak. ‘Joon Woo’ (Yoo Ahin) and ‘Yoo Bin’ (Park Shinhye) struggle to survive in a quarantined residential complex surrounded by those infected with the virus. As the situation spins out of control and all means of communication are cut off, more and more people turn into monsters, with the two leaving no stone unturned to stay alive.The Korean film industry is experiencing something of a zombie resurrection. While all eyes are on the international success of addictive K-dramas and Bong Joon-ho’s Academy Award-winning film Parasite, the country's filmmakers are also creating some of the most ambitious, unsettling and even comedic entries to the zombie genre. The renewed K-zombie movie trend arguably began with Yeon Sang-ho’s 2016
Perhaps most interesting about Korean zombie movies is how the apocalyptic visions offer a dash of social criticism—hitting at the rigidity of class structures, the encroachment of technological advances, or the collapse of society after the random introduction of a viral pathogen. Essentially, these Korean movies aren’t all just made to get easy scares from flesh eating monsters.
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These zombie movies have a little bit of everything—psychological thrillers, body horror, class allegories, and even a historical drama, all unified under their shared subject matter: the undead.
The Gong Woo-led movie follows a group of travelers fighting for their lives aboard a zombie-infested high-speed train hurtling to one of the last safe places in the country. The film's powerful class commentary shows the benefit of taking collective action over prioritizing individual survival. Critics pointed out how the movie may be a response to the Sewol ferry disaster of 2014 that left 300 dead, including around 250 teenagers.
The kind of body horror that fans of the genre know and love. This time, the survivors of the zombie apocalypse in the Korean Peninsula are safe and sound in Hong Kong. That is, until Jung-seok (played by Gang Dong) gets caught up in a scheme to recover $20 million back in Seoul. Yeon Sang-ho returns to direct this hybrid zombie-heist thriller, choosing to wander through the eerie CGI post-apocalyptic wasteland that has few human survivors.
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Follows a spacey gamer who is stuck in the house while a zombie apocalypse rages at his doorstep. He’s running out of food, and it’s not like zombies give up on a siege. As the days pass and the situation continues to devolve into the end of times, he makes contact with a neighbor and together they plot their escape.
When a rural town suffers from a series of inexplicable murders, a country detective investigates the events under the shadow of a mysterious plague. Na Hong-jin directs this police procedural with a keen ability to harness suspicion and dread. Complicating matters is the arrival of a Japanese migrant who possesses malicious supernatural powers, according to the superstitious townspeople.
Imagines Seoul's lockdown at the start of the zombie outbreak. The movie follows former sex worker Hye-sun, who is searching for her pimp-slash-boyfriend amidst the chaos. While
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Looks closer at the lives who are at the margins and most likely to be cast aside in a cataclysmic event. In fact, one of the first zombies is an old homeless man, yet his affliction is ignored due to his age and social status.
Follows the broke, dysfunctional Park family who are down on their luck. To make money, they manufacture car accidents and live off the cash they extort from the unwitting drivers who think they caused the wreck. Meanwhile, a pharmaceutical company is just reaping the aftermath of a secret drug trial–it looks like the abducted trial “volunteers” have turned into flesh eating monsters, with one test subject escaping the facility and taking shelter at the Park family’s gas station. Once the family discovers that the zombie bite purportedly makes everyone feel younger and healthier, the Parks charge everyone in town for a bite. Cue the unintended consequences.
, Yim Pil-sung’s sleek anthology film that dives into three different rapture scenarios, the end of the world isn’t the stuff of the Book of Revelations. Instead, it’s a zombie apocalypse, an asteroid strike, and a robot takeover. These scenarios might sound quite terrifying, but the film itself is absurdist and nimble, and indulges in comedy and introspection to critique Korean politics. Even the creation of zombies is handled with a degree of humor: The triggering biological event occurs when a man eats a rotten apple that leads to toxic materials entering the food chain, turning everyone into the living dead.
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Fame stars in this visually rich historical drama set in the Joseon Dynasty—with a twist. Namely, it features flesh-eating demons. A genre mashup of court intrigue and a zombie thriller make this Kim Sung-hoon directed flick a satisfying watch. Hyun plays a prince in the throes of a political crisis–the current king spends his time kowtowing to the neighboring Qing empire while the war minister plots his own rebellion. Throw in the nocturnal zombies and you have a certified
Style movie in conversation with Korea’s history of geopolitical crises, which tended to favor the powerful while leaving regular people in the dust.
A modern day retelling of the Arabian nights, a Korean Scheherazade is kidnapped by a serial killer who can only fall asleep when told scary stories. Four directors helm each part of this anthology film, which runs the gamut from zombie horror to terrorist attacks to nightmarish plastic surgery. As for the zombie story, aptly titled “Ambulance on the Death Zone?” In that segment, a group of survivors
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