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SEOUL October 22 (Yonhap) -- Exhibition where visitors can see the history of leading figure of Zombie phenomenon K-zombie has opened.
Korean Film museum located in Mapo district of Seoul has opened up an exhibition “All of us are zombies: 21st century Zombie chronicle” also known as “K-zombie exhibition” on October 21 addressed Korean Film Archive.
Exhibition which will continue on until March of 2023, will showcase the beginning of K-Zombie Phenomenon, how it became such a big deal throughout the world, vision of K-contents related to Zombies and more.
K-Zombie has emerged from the depression Zombie era of contents were suffering from and became the savior or the genre in 2010s.
Zombie movies which were rising to its fame through movies such as “28 days Later…” in 2003 by director Danny Boyle, “Dawn of the Dead” in 2004, “R.E.C.” in 2008, however, due to repetitive storyline and redundant variables, love for the movies have died down quickly as they approached 2010s.
Zombie genre of movie which was suffering from the depression was saved by the South Korean block buster movie “Train To Busan” in 2016, given stage of high speed train KTX, with vigorous and gruesome fight against zombies, intense action scenes which showcase true nature of people successfully attracted people back to the movie theater.
Continuing with the success of “Train to Busan,” K-zombie contents such as “Kingdom,” in 2019, “#alive” in 2020, “Hellbound” in 2021 “All of Us Are Dead” in 2022, and more of the K-zombie contents have solidified its grounds within K-contents.
K-Zombie exhibition will be held with 5 various segments.
Within the segment where visitors will be provided with the origin of zombie genre, film “White Zombie” from 1932 by director Victor Halperin, “Nights of the Living Dead” by director George A Romero in 1968, first S.Korean Zombie movie, “A Mostrous Corpse” by director Kang Bum-ku from 1980, and more will be introduced.
Costumes worn by the actors of “Train to Busan are being showcased at the scene, and the story board of “Seoul Station” by director Yeon Sang-ho will be showcased at the museum as well.
The exhibition shines light on factors such as family, corruption of the society, space design and more to be the reason why K-zombie contents were able to rise to the stardom. Throughout the showing, visitors will be able to watch the special showing of compilation video of six of the S.Korean zombie movies and series which showcases success factors of the contents. .
“I have been planning on K-zombie exhibition for the past 2 years, why people go wild for K-zombies, How K-zombies took the world by surprise, and where will K-zombie content lead us to next motivated me to open up the exhibition.” addressed deputy head of department at the Korean Film Archive.
Something one cannot exclude from the K-zombie content is literary the zombies. Introduction video featuring the choreographer Jeon Young who designed the ways K-zombie movie and taught actors to act out in certain ways to emphasize the liveliness of the zombie will be played throughout the exhibition.
Moreover, movies such as “Seoul Station,” “Peninsula,” “#alive” and various K-zombie movies will be offered for free through the Cinema Tech within the Korean Film Archive until March of 2023. After every showing, question and answer session with the audience will follow shortly.
(This article is translated from Korean to English by Joonha Yoo)
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