Gangnam Zombie 2023

On the night just before Christmas, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic in Seoul, two men break into a container from China containing gold jewelry. Inside the container is also a cat, which suddenly attacks and scratches Wang-i, Jo Kyung-hoon. The scratch marks the start of his illness as he slips away. Later, as his worried friend tends him, Wang-i suddenly attacks and bites his throat out before rolling into the nearby river. He drifts in the current to the Gangnam District, where he emerges from the water and shocks onlookers by chowing down on a chunk of raw, bloody meat in the streets.

Hyeon-seok, Ji Il-ju, a former taekwondo champion, has recently moved to Seoul for work at a small online streaming firm housed in a Gangnam office building. He has a crush on his coworker Min-jeong, Park Ji-yeon, but Min-jeong disapproves of him, while his carefree, selfish boss Tae-soo, Tak Te-in, harasses her and has yet to turn a profit or pay his workers. The next day, Wang-i appears in the building and attacks people, who quickly transform into blood-craving zombies and bite any human they encounter, spreading the infection.

Soon-ja, the building’s renter, orders the exits sealed, trapping everyone inside, before she and a wounded security guard are forced to flee to Hyeon-seok and Min-jeong’s workplace and inform them of the crisis. Seeing a chance for profit, Tae-soo insists on filming the carnage, but the group is discovered and attacked, and all but Hyeon-seok and Min-jeong are killed and infected. Unable to call for help because the phone lines are blocked, they try to fight their way out but are eventually cornered in the entrance hall.

Hyeon-seok shelters Min-jeong inside a minivan before reentering the fight. Just as he is overwhelmed, Min-jeong rescues him with a fire extinguisher from the car, and they escape to the building’s parkade. There, they are attacked by Wang-i and Soon-ja; they bring down both zombies, but Hyeon-seok is bitten by Soon-ja. Knowing what will happen, he and Min-jeong share a sorrowful farewell until they discover that Soon-ja was wearing dentures, thus saving him from infection. They make their way up to the garage’s roof, but Wang-i recovers from his battering and follows them, leaving their fates uncertain.