korean zombie series school

 korean zombie series school

Korean zombie shows like Train to Busan (2016), Netflix original series Kingdom (2019), #Alive (2020), and Happiness (2021) have all become global hits and proved that there is a massive appetite for such content. Through the grotesque figure of the zombie and its transitions between the human and the monstrous, these Korean shows have launched a terrifying critique of society in all of its moral degeneration and systemic ills. As we are in the third year of a once-a-century pandemic that has ripped its way across the entire planet killing millions, more producers are using zombies to make sense of the COVID era. Just like that, now we have the next zombie hit “All of us are dead”.Directed by Lee Jae-Kyu, “All of us are dead” is a new take on the subgenre and a worthy successor in the growing Korean zombie show corpus. Based on the immensely popular 2009 webtoon named 'Now at Our School' by Joo Dong-Geun, the 12-episode series follows a group of students from the fictional Hyosan High School, as they attempt to survive a zombie apocalypseWebtoon poster

Like most of the zombie dramas, "All of us are dead" has a similar storyline. A girl gets bitten by a lab rat, and then she, in turn, bites a classmate, and, before you realize everything, the whole city is overrun by mutilated, gargling zombies. But what keeps the drama fresh, though, is the setting and the story beneath it.While the rest of the school is off to make each other zombies, desperate teen survivors fight it out to stay afloat and make it to the other side of the epidemic, hoping beyond hope that adults are coming to rescue them. In the survivor team, we meet On-jo (Park Ji-hu) who puts her survival knowledge learned from her firefighter father and loyal Cheong-san (Yoon Chan-young), along with the class president Nam-ra (Cho Yi- Hyun), the mean girl Na-Yeon (Lee Yoo-mi), and athlete Su-hyeok (Lomon). We also meet the archer Ha-ri (Ha Seung-ri) and nicotine addict Mi-jin (Lee Eun-saem), while the bully Gwi-Nam (Yoo In-soo) makes sure he'll end up on top, no matter the cost.Turning into a zombieUnlike many zombie dramas, “All of us are dead” actually describes how everything actually started. The drama begins by introducing us to Lee Jin-Su (Lee Min-Goo) who is also a student of Hyosan High School and is often violently bullied miserably to the point that he attempts suicide. His father Lee Byeong-Chan holds a Ph.D. in cell biology and works as a science teacher in the same school. To empower his son with special abilities to fight back, he makes a substance that preys on fear in humans and turns it into a rage in a bid. However, as these things usually go, the experiment turns out all wrong and instead of being powerful, his son turns into a zombie.

Meanwhile, Kim Hyeon-Ju, one of the bullies gets bitten by an infected lab hamster with the disease. When Lee Byeong-chan finds her in the school lab, he binds and gags her. However, she ultimately gets out, and the virus starts to spread. In a single afternoon, the massive Hyosan High School complex is plunged into chaos. The scientist ultimately realizes that the only cure for the virus is eradicating the host.The first victim of the Jonas Virus

The zombies in “All of us are dead” have a heightened sense of smell and hearing. Those affected with The Jonas Virus, as Lee Byeong-chan and Detective Jae-ik call it, are medically dead. Their heart stops, but the virus stimulates their brain stem and moves the body. Physically weaker humans make for physically weaker zombies, but the bone-crunching flexibility of the zombies and their determination to eat brains make them much scarier than their human hosts could ever be. There's also an interesting twist that some humans respond differently to viruses. Rather than being turned into a zombie, they are half-human, half-zombie, or a “hambie,” as Dae-su decides to call it.

Do you know how students are not children but not yet adults either? Those hambies are like that. They are neither a human nor a monster, with all of the strengths of a zombie while holding onto their brain function. They are not necessarily immune to the virus, and regardless of what the military scientists speculate, they aren't asymptomatic either. Hambies also get hungry for human flesh, but unlike ordinary zombies, this hunger is not insatiable. Moreover, the hambies can also create other hambies by biting them. In his video journal, Lee Byeong-chan describes hambies as the result of the Jonas virus interacting with antibodies. The virus evolves because of this interaction, and as a result, the antibodies lose their target. In most cases, the virus kills the person and takes over their body. So, for all intents and purposes, hambies are like a new species of human beings.

The most exciting part of most zombie stories is the initial crushing downfall of civilization and fortunately, that's the entire focus here. We see many films about zombies, but only a few have students