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* OurZombiesAreDifferent: These zombies can run and move fast, and they're only active at night, hiding under the shade and dark places the moment daylight hits and seemingly reverting back to regular corpses until nightfall strikes again. [[spoiler:Further differentiating, they aren't afraid of fire or sunlight per se, but ''heat''. If it gets warm or hot enough, they try to hide in cool places and go dormant, but are perfectly able to operate during the day if it's cold enough.]]
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* OurZombiesAreDifferent: These zombies are created as the result of an HealingHerb believed to have [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor the ability to raise the dead]]. Like most traditional zombie, they look like decayed walking corpses, cannot talk, eat human flesh, can only die through decapitation, and [[TheVirus turn anyone they successfully bite into more zombies]]. However, they can run and move fast, and they're only active at night, hiding under the shade and dark places the moment daylight hits and seemingly reverting back to regular corpses until nightfall strikes again. [[spoiler:Further differentiating, they aren't afraid of fire or sunlight per se, but ''heat''. If it gets warm or hot enough, they try to hide in cool places and go dormant, but are perfectly able to operate during the day if it's cold enough.]]
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* EvilIsDeathlyCold: The resurrection medicinal herb that leads to the Zombie Outbreak was found in an icy cave. [[spoiler:This is also reflected in the Zombies' ability to rise- they can stay active in cold climate, such as night time.]]
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* ArtisticLicenseHistory: The Gyeongbok Palace in Seoul (then Hanyang) was burned down during the Japanese invasion, which happened shortly before the show's timeframe. Here it's shown in its modern-day form, which started reconstruction in 1989 after being left in ruins for over three centuries.
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* FacialHorror: In a flashback, we see the people in Yeong-shin's home village having their faces covered in bloody bandages. This is likely a result of UsefulNotes/ToyotomiHideyoshi ordering the invading Japanese soldiers to bring back severed Korean noses for their remuneration claim.
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* RunningGag: Yeong-shin [[DynamicEntry body-slamming]] into things (and people).
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* OurZombiesAreDifferent: These zombies can run and move fast, and they're only active at night, hiding under the shade and dark places the moment daylight hits and seemingly reverting back to regular corpses until nightfall strikes again. [[spoiler:Further differentiating, they aren't afraid of fire or sunlight per se, but ''heat''. If it gets warm or hot enough, they try to hide in cool places and go dormant, but are perfectly able to operate during the day if it's cold enough.]]
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* ButtMonkey: Lord Beom-pal. From repeatedly getting caught in zombie attacks to his diagnosis of gonorrhea the only bit of luck this guy has is that he keeps managing to survive through luck.
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** Seo-bi diagnoses the lord's illness and tells him that he might [[GroinAttack he might some pain in his... penis]], because he has gonorrhea.
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** Seo-bi diagnoses the lord's Beom-pal’s illness and tells him that he might [[GroinAttack he might some pain in his... penis]], because he has gonorrhea.
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* NotMeThisTime: Averted. The Crown Prince admits he knowingly conspired with others to overthrow the Queen in order to bypass the line of succession to his personal guard Moo-young early on in episode 1.
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* NotMeThisTime: Averted. The Crown Prince admits he knowingly conspired with others to overthrow the Queen in order to bypass the line of succession to his personal guard Moo-young early on in episode Episode 1.
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* AllForNothing: [[spoiler:At great risk to himself, the Crown Prince ensures no survivors are left behind as they flee from the ruins of Daegu to Jihulyeon just as night falls. However, forces loyal to Cho soon track him down and demand his surrender in daytime. When he does not, they unleash a hail of arrows that kills many of the survivors.]]
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* AllForNothing: [[spoiler:At great risk to himself, the Crown Prince ensures no survivors are left behind as they flee from the ruins of Daegu to Jihulyeon just as night falls. However, forces loyal to Cho soon track him down and demand his surrender in daytime. When he does not, refuses, they unleash a hail of arrows that kills many of the those survivors.]]
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* AllForNothing: [[spoiler:At great risk to himself, the Crown Prince ensures no survivors are left behind as they flee from the ruins of Daegu to Jihulyeon just as night falls. However, forces loyal to Cho soon track him down and demand his surrender in daytime. When he does not, they unleash a hail of arrows that kills many of the survivors.]]
* ImprobableAimingSkills: Yeong-shin is a crack shot with a musket he salvaged during the retreat from Daegu to Jihulyeon, achieving [[BoomHeadshot headshots]] on fast moving zombies moving dangerously close to the Crown Prince.
** He later participates in an ambush against Cho's forces and takes out multiple soldiers with [[OneHitKill clean headshots]] from relatively[[note]]for a musket[[/note]] long range.
* ItsPersonal: [[spoiler:Cho Hak-jo swears revenge on the Crown Prince after receiving his son's head, which was recovered from Jihulyeon. It's unclear whether he knows (or cares) that the Crown Prince was forced to behead his son after he was infected and turned into a zombie.]]
* ItsQuietTooQuiet: One of the first signs that something's amiss is the forests around Jihulyeon being ''unnaturally'' quiet, as they are devoid of wildlife.
** He later participates in an ambush against Cho's forces and takes out multiple soldiers with [[OneHitKill clean headshots]] from relatively[[note]]for a musket[[/note]] long range.
* ItsPersonal: [[spoiler:Cho Hak-jo swears revenge on the Crown Prince after receiving his son's head, which was recovered from Jihulyeon. It's unclear whether he knows (or cares) that the Crown Prince was forced to behead his son after he was infected and turned into a zombie.]]
* ItsQuietTooQuiet: One of the first signs that something's amiss is the forests around Jihulyeon being ''unnaturally'' quiet, as they are devoid of wildlife.
* NotMeThisTime: Averted. The Crown Prince admits he knowingly conspired with others to overthrow the Queen in order to bypass the line of succession to his personal guard Moo-young early on in episode 1.
* QuarantineWithExtremePrejudice: In response to the rapidly spreading outbreak, Cho Hak-ju orders the closing of all gates into Sangju, effectively sealing the ''entirety of the southern Korean peninsula'' from the capital Hanyang[[note]]present-day Seoul[[/note]] and trapping the Crown Prince with a growing zombie horde.
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* ViralTransformation: Initially averted: the first victim of a zombie is mauled to death, but did not transform into one himself. However, his body remained infectious, so those that ate his flesh later died and reanimated.
** Played straight from this point - anyone bitten afterwards would undergo death and reanimation as usual.
* WhamEpisode: [[spoiler:The finale reveals that the zombies rest not because of daylight, but because of the heat. This is realised just as winter is approaching in Korea... Oh, and the Queen is not actually pregnant, but has a whole room-full of surrogate mothers whom she's counting on to deliver at least one son.]]
** Played straight from this point - anyone bitten afterwards would undergo death and reanimation as usual.
* WhamEpisode: [[spoiler:The finale reveals that the zombies rest not because of daylight, but because of the heat. This is realised just as winter is approaching in Korea... Oh, and the Queen is not actually pregnant, but has a whole room-full of surrogate mothers whom she's counting on to deliver at least one son.]]
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very swiftly transform in a matter of ''minutes''.
* WhamEpisode: [[spoiler:The season 1 finale reveals that the zombies rest not because of daylight, but because of the heat. This is realised just as winter is approaching in Korea... Oh, and the Queen is not actually pregnant, but has a whole room-full of surrogate mothers whom she's counting on to deliver at least one son.]]
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* WhamEpisode: [[spoiler:The season 1 finale reveals that the zombies rest not because of daylight, but because of the heat. This is realised just as winter is approaching in Korea... Oh, and the Queen is not actually pregnant, but has a whole room-full of surrogate mothers whom she's counting on to deliver at least one son.]]
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* CliffHanger: Season 1 ends as [[spoiler:the defenders of Sangju prepare to pack up after sunrise, until the ground starts vibrating as a horde of zombies appears on the horizon, seemingly unaffected by daylight…]]
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* NotQuiteTheRightThing: The authorities discover the human-meat guy's storage of corpses and bring them back to the village to investigate the matter. Too bad they're zombified.
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* NotQuiteTheRightThing: The authorities discover the human-meat guy's storage of corpses at Jihulyeon and bring them back to the village to investigate the matter. Too bad they're zombified.
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* TooDumbToLive: Despite having witnessed first-hand the destruction caused by the zombies, an elderly noblewoman ''insists'' on smuggling her infected son out in a locked crate to spare his body from being burned. This is '''despite''' Seo-bi specifically warning survivors that the zombies seek shelter during daytime and will reanimate in the evening. Naturally when night falls, the zombie reanimates and wipes out everyone aboard the boat.
** Considering they deliberately abandoned other survivors just before nightfall, [[KarmicDeath it was]] [[AssholeVictim well-deserved]].
** Considering they deliberately abandoned other survivors just before nightfall, [[KarmicDeath it was]] [[AssholeVictim well-deserved]].
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* ViralTransformation: Initially averted: the first victim of a zombie is mauled to death, but did not transform into one himself. However, his body remained infectious, so those that ate his flesh later died and reanimated.
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** Played straight from this point - anyone bitten afterwards would undergo death and reanimation as usual.
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It is sometime in the Joseon Era, and word on the street is that the King is dead. The powerful Haewon Cho clan is in almost complete control of the government, and its head, Chief State Councilor Cho Hak-jo (Ryu Seung-ryong of ''Animation/SeoulStation''), suspects that the Crown Prince Yi Chang (Ju Ji-hoon) is behind said rumors. The Prince determines that something is seriously wrong with the King and goes to the countryside to investigate matters, while being pursued on charges of treason by Cho's force. Meanwhile in the countryside, physician Seo-bi (Doona Bae (Creator/BaeDoona of ''Film/TheHost'' and ''Series/{{Sense8}}'') notices that villagers are dropping dead rapidly, but that will soon be the least of her worries...
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* IAteWhat: During a famine, one of the main characters is able to find a source of meat for the village to eat. Seo-bi discovers that [[ImAHumanitarian it's made from the corpse of a boy they had taken in]]. Cue NauseaFuel.
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* IAteWhat: During a famine, one of the main characters Yeong-shin is able to find a source of meat for the village to eat. Seo-bi discovers that [[ImAHumanitarian it's made from the corpse of a boy they had taken in]]. Cue NauseaFuel.
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: The man that fed the village human meat, since it ended up turning almost everyone in the village into zombies.
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: The man that fed Yeong-shin after feeding the village human meat, since it ended up turning almost everyone in the village into zombies.
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* PetTheDog: The dude that fed everyone human meat attempts to save a woman and her baby at the beginning of Episode 3, and though it's sadly too late to save the mother, he manages to grab the baby before the zombies can get it too.
* PoliceAreUseless: The nobles and guards ditch the human-meat guy who they had jailed and toss the keys to him almost out of reach. To be fair, the guy was largely responsible for the outbreak...
* PoliceAreUseless: The nobles and guards ditch the human-meat guy who they had jailed and toss the keys to him almost out of reach. To be fair, the guy was largely responsible for the outbreak...
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* PetTheDog: The dude that fed everyone human meat Yeong-shin attempts to save a woman and her baby at the beginning of Episode 3, and though it's sadly too late to save the mother, he manages to grab the baby before the zombies can get it too.
* PoliceAreUseless: The nobles and guards ditchthe human-meat guy Yeong-shin who they had jailed and toss the keys to him almost out of reach. To be fair, the guy was largely responsible for the outbreak...
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* WhatTheHellHero: To the guy that secretly fed everyone human meat.
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''Kingdom'' is a South Korean television series [[GenreMashup depicting a zombie outbreak in medieval Korea]], written by Kim Eun-hee ({{Series/Signal}}) and directed by Kim Seong-hun (Film/AHardDay). It is loosely based on the Korean webcomic series ''The Kingdom of the Gods''. The show was released worldwide by Creator/{{Netflix}} in 2019.
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''Kingdom'' is a South Korean television series [[GenreMashup depicting a zombie outbreak inmedieval feudal Korea]], written by Kim Eun-hee ({{Series/Signal}}) and directed by Kim Seong-hun (Film/AHardDay). It is loosely based on the Korean webcomic web-comic series ''The Kingdom of the Gods''. The show was released worldwide by Creator/{{Netflix}} in 2019.
''Kingdom'' is a South Korean television series [[GenreMashup depicting a zombie outbreak in
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* DeadlyDecadentCourt: The general politics during the series' time isn't stable, which the bottom of the palace's pond is filled with the corpses of those who were caught in the court intrigue. Yi Chang became a target of this with the birth of his half brother that entailed the possibility of his succession rights relinquished due to his birth from a concubine rather than a consort. Even in the zombie outbreak, the aristocracy and ruling clan still attempt to vie for power and sometimes take advantage of the chaos.
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* DeathOfAChild:
** In Episode 1, a boy's corpse is made into stew. At the end of the episode, a young girl is the first to die from the stew.
** Averted at the beginning of Episode 3. The rooftop survivors save a kid and save a baby even when its mother is a lost cause. Played straight soon enough, with a kid getting bitten by a zombified kid in game of chase gone wrong and another kid getting attacked by her zombified mother while their sibling watches hidden sight from sight.
** In Episode 1, a boy's corpse is made into stew. At the end of the episode, a young girl is the first to die from the stew.
** Averted at the beginning of Episode 3. The rooftop survivors save a kid and save a baby even when its mother is a lost cause. Played straight soon enough, with a kid getting bitten by a zombified kid in game of chase gone wrong and another kid getting attacked by her zombified mother while their sibling watches hidden sight from sight.
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* InfantImmortality: Averted.
** In Episode 1, a boy's corpse is made into stew. At the end of the episode, a young girl is the first to die from the stew.
** Played straight at the beginning of Episode 3. The rooftop survivors save a kid and save a baby even when its mother is a lost cause. Averted soon enough, with a kid getting bitten by a zombified kid in game of chase gone wrong and another kid getting attacked by her zombified mother while their sibling watches hidden sight from sight.
** In Episode 1, a boy's corpse is made into stew. At the end of the episode, a young girl is the first to die from the stew.
** Played straight at the beginning of Episode 3. The rooftop survivors save a kid and save a baby even when its mother is a lost cause. Averted soon enough, with a kid getting bitten by a zombified kid in game of chase gone wrong and another kid getting attacked by her zombified mother while their sibling watches hidden sight from sight.
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* NiceHat: The various historically accurate Joseon-era hats were so fancy to foreign viewers that they became touted as a key reason to watch the show.
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''Kingdom'' is a South Korean television series [[GenreMashup depicting a zombie outbreak in medieval Korea]], written by Kim Eun-hee ({{Series/Signal}}) and directed by Kim Seong-hun (Film/AHardDay). The show was released worldwide by Creator/{{Netflix}} in 2019.
It is sometime in the Joseon Era, and word on the street is that the King is dead. The powerful Haewon Cho clan is in almost complete control of the government, and its head, Chief State Councilor Cho Hak-jo (Ryu Seung-ryong), suspects that the Crown Prince Lee Chang (Ju Ji-hoon) is behind said rumours. The Prince determines that something is seriously wrong with the King and goes to the countryside to investigate matters, while being pursued on charges of treason by Cho's force. Meanwhile in the countryside, physician Seo-bi (Doona Bae of Film/TheHost and Series/{{Sense8}}) notices that villagers are dropping dead rapidly, but that will soon be the least of her worries...
It is sometime in the Joseon Era, and word on the street is that the King is dead. The powerful Haewon Cho clan is in almost complete control of the government, and its head, Chief State Councilor Cho Hak-jo (Ryu Seung-ryong), suspects that the Crown Prince Lee Chang (Ju Ji-hoon) is behind said rumours. The Prince determines that something is seriously wrong with the King and goes to the countryside to investigate matters, while being pursued on charges of treason by Cho's force. Meanwhile in the countryside, physician Seo-bi (Doona Bae of Film/TheHost and Series/{{Sense8}}) notices that villagers are dropping dead rapidly, but that will soon be the least of her worries...
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''Kingdom'' is a South Korean television series [[GenreMashup depicting a zombie outbreak in medieval Korea]], written by Kim Eun-hee ({{Series/Signal}}) and directed by Kim Seong-hun (Film/AHardDay). It is loosely based on the Korean webcomic series ''The Kingdom of the Gods''. The show was released worldwide by Creator/{{Netflix}} in 2019.
It is sometime in the Joseon Era, and word on the street is that the King is dead. The powerful Haewon Cho clan is in almost complete control of the government, and its head, Chief State Councilor Cho Hak-jo (RyuSeung-ryong), Seung-ryong of ''Animation/SeoulStation''), suspects that the Crown Prince Lee Yi Chang (Ju Ji-hoon) is behind said rumours.rumors. The Prince determines that something is seriously wrong with the King and goes to the countryside to investigate matters, while being pursued on charges of treason by Cho's force. Meanwhile in the countryside, physician Seo-bi (Doona Bae of Film/TheHost ''Film/TheHost'' and Series/{{Sense8}}) ''Series/{{Sense8}}'') notices that villagers are dropping dead rapidly, but that will soon be the least of her worries...
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''Kingdom'' is a South Korean television series [[GenreMashup depicting a zombie outbreak in medieval Korea]], written by Kim Eun-hee ({{Series/Signal}}) and directed by Kim Seong-hun (Film/AHardDay). The show was released world-wide worldwide by Creator/{{Netflix}} in 2019.
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* WhamShot: One of the Queen's new maids gasps when she undresses her Majesty and discovers that [[spoiler:she isn't pregnant.]]
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''Kingdom'' is a South Korean television series [[MashUp [[GenreMashup depicting a zombie outbreak in medieval Korea]], written by Kim Eun-hee ({{Series/Signal}}) and directed by Kim Seong-hun (Film/AHardDay). The show was released world-wide by Creator/{{Netflix}} in 2019.
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* ImAHumanitarian: The starving villagers are tricked into drinking stew made out of a diseased corpse, while thinking it is actually venison. This is also the origin of the outbreak.
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* SpoiledSweet: The Crown Prince, while generally a noble and righteous character, has clearly never ventured much outside of the Palace. While he is initially replused by the countryside's poverty, it soon dawns upon him how vulnerable the commoners are, and becoming a protector of the peasantry (as opposed to the nobility's generally hostile and classist attitudes) is part of his CharacterDevelopment over the series.
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* WhamEpisode: [[spoiler:The finale reveals that the zombies rest not because of daylight, but because of the heat. This is realised just as winter is approaching in Korea... Oh, and the Queen is not actually pregnant, but has a whole room-full of surrogate mothers whom she's counting on to deliver at least one son.]]
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''Kingdom'' is a South Korean television series [[MashUp depicting a zombie outbreak in medieval Korea]], written by Kim Eun-hee ({{Series/Signal}}) and directed by Kim Seong-hun (Film/AHardDay). The show was released world-wide by Creator/{{Netflix}} in 2019.
It is sometime in the Joseon Era, and word on the street is that the King is dead. The powerful Haewon Cho clan is in almost complete control of the government, and its head, Chief State Councilor Cho Hak-jo (Ryu Seung-ryong), suspects that the Crown Prince Lee Chang (Ju Ji-hoon) is behind said rumours. The Prince determines that something is seriously wrong with the King and goes to the countryside to investigate matters, while being pursued on charges of treason by Cho's force. Meanwhile in the countryside, physician Seo-bi (Doona Bae of Film/TheHost and Series/{{Sense8}}) notices that villagers are dropping dead rapidly, but that will soon be the least of her worries...
The show was renewed for a second season in advance, set to be released in 2019 or 2020.
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It is sometime in the Joseon Era, and word on the street is that the King is dead. The powerful Haewon Cho clan is in almost complete control of the government, and its head, Chief State Councilor Cho Hak-jo (Ryu Seung-ryong), suspects that the Crown Prince Lee Chang (Ju Ji-hoon) is behind said rumours. The Prince determines that something is seriously wrong with the King and goes to the countryside to investigate matters, while being pursued on charges of treason by Cho's force. Meanwhile in the countryside, physician Seo-bi (Doona Bae of Film/TheHost and Series/{{Sense8}}) notices that villagers are dropping dead rapidly, but that will soon be the least of her worries...
The show was renewed for a second season in advance, set to be released in 2019 or 2020.
!Tropes included in the series include:
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* IAteWhat: During a famine, one of the main characters is able to find a source of meat for the village to eat. His female family member Seo-bi discovers that [[ImAHumanitarian it's made from the corpse of a boy they had taken in]]. Cue NauseaFuel.
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* PoliceAreUseless: The nobles and guards ditch the human-meat guy who they had jailed and toss the keys to him almost out of reach. To be fair, the guy was largely responsible for the outbreak...
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** On the night of the outbreak, the jail gets infested with zombies when the nobles try to hide there. One retainer gets his hand bitten while reaching outside of the cell to to lock the door and he ends up turning (although they manage to kill him after he turns). An inmate who has his neck cuffed on a wooden block with another inmate gets trapped when his partner turns into a zombie and their cell is surrounded by zombies. He ends up getting bitten.
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** On the night of the outbreak, the jail gets infested with zombies when the nobles try to hide there. One retainer gets his hand bitten while reaching outside of the cell to to lock the door and he ends up turning (although they manage to kill him after he turns). An inmate who has his neck cuffed on a wooden block with another inmate gets trapped when his partner turns into a zombie and their cell is surrounded by zombies. He ends up getting bitten.
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* BlackComedy: On the night everyone discovers the zombie outbreak, the Prince and his retainers get into a confrontation with a zombie. After failing to kill it, one of the Prince's retainers crawls into a box and closes it when he stumbles on the ground and the zombie is about to go after him.
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** On the night everyone discovers the zombie outbreak, the Prince and his retainers get into a confrontation with a zombie. After failing to kill it, one of the Prince's retainers crawls into a box and closes it when he stumbles on the ground and the zombie is about to go after him.
** The physician diagnoses the lord's illness and tells him that he might [[GroinAttack he might some pain in his... penis]], because he has gonorrhea.
** On the night everyone discovers the zombie outbreak, the Prince and his retainers get into a confrontation with a zombie. After failing to kill it, one of the Prince's retainers crawls into a box and closes it when he stumbles on the ground and the zombie is about to go after him.
** The physician diagnoses the lord's illness and tells him that he might [[GroinAttack he might some pain in his... penis]], because he has gonorrhea.
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* OutZombiesAreDifferent: OurZombiesAreDifferent: These zombies can run and move fast. fast, and they're only active at night, hiding under the shade and dark places the moment daylight hits and seemingly reverting back to regular corpses until nightfall strikes again.
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* BlackComedy: On the night everyone discovers the zombie outbreak, the Prince and his retainers get into a confrontation with a zombie. After failing to kill it, one of the Prince's retainers crawls into a box and closes it when he stumbles on the ground and the zombie is about to go after him.
* DidntThinkThisThrough: At the beginning of Episode 3, a lord and his retainers attempt to escape from zombies by crawling under the crawlspace between the ground and a part of a building. Since these zombies are smart enough to crawl (and can move ''fast''), it gets a bunch of them killed.
* GoneHorriblyWrong: The resurrection herbal spell performed at the beginning of the show ends up causing a zombie outbreak.
* IAteWhat: During a famine, one of the main characters is able to find a source of meat for the village to eat. His female family member discovers that [[ImAHumanitarian it's made from the corpse of a boy they had taken in]]. Cue NauseaFuel.
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: The guy that fed everyone human meat reasons that either they could continue to survive no matter the cost or die off because they couldn't settle on a trivial matter such as morality.
* InfantImmortality: Averted.
** In Episode 1, a boy's corpse is made into stew. At the end of the episode, a young girl is the first to die from the stew.
** Played straight at the beginning of Episode 3. The rooftop survivors save a kid and save a baby even when its mother is a lost cause. Averted soon enough, with a kid getting bitten by a zombified kid in game of chase gone wrong and another kid getting attacked by her zombified mother while their sibling watches hidden sight from sight.
* JerkassHasAPoint: The guy that fed everyone at Jihulyeon human meat is right about people putting their lives at peril over moral quarrels. In Episode 3, he explains that they should bury or burn the zombies as soon as possible before nightfall, but then the remaining villagers object to burning the bodies because it's culturally disrespectful and the nobles want to separate the peasant corpses from the noble corpses, a difficult task since they would have to destroy the heads, making identification hard.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: The man that fed the village human meat, since it ended up turning almost everyone in the village into zombies.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: The jerkass nobles and police lock away one of the main characters in jail, but it becomes helpful when the zombies come. Almost all of the nobles and police involved in this end up getting killed when they try to use the jail cells while trying to escape the zombies.
* NoSell: When the zombie outbreak happens, numerous characters have trouble trying to kill the zombies because they strike them anywhere else besides the head. A [[OffWithHisHead decapitation]] or other head injury works just fine, per usual.
* NotQuiteTheRightThing: The authorities discover the human-meat guy's storage of corpses and bring them back to the village to investigate the matter. Too bad they're zombified.
* OutZombiesAreDifferent: These zombies can run and move fast.
* PetTheDog: The dude that fed everyone human meat attempts to save a woman and her baby at the beginning of Episode 3, and though it's sadly too late to save the mother, he manages to grab the baby before the zombies can get it too.
* WhatTheHellHero: To the guy that secretly fed everyone human meat.
* DidntThinkThisThrough: At the beginning of Episode 3, a lord and his retainers attempt to escape from zombies by crawling under the crawlspace between the ground and a part of a building. Since these zombies are smart enough to crawl (and can move ''fast''), it gets a bunch of them killed.
* GoneHorriblyWrong: The resurrection herbal spell performed at the beginning of the show ends up causing a zombie outbreak.
* IAteWhat: During a famine, one of the main characters is able to find a source of meat for the village to eat. His female family member discovers that [[ImAHumanitarian it's made from the corpse of a boy they had taken in]]. Cue NauseaFuel.
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: The guy that fed everyone human meat reasons that either they could continue to survive no matter the cost or die off because they couldn't settle on a trivial matter such as morality.
* InfantImmortality: Averted.
** In Episode 1, a boy's corpse is made into stew. At the end of the episode, a young girl is the first to die from the stew.
** Played straight at the beginning of Episode 3. The rooftop survivors save a kid and save a baby even when its mother is a lost cause. Averted soon enough, with a kid getting bitten by a zombified kid in game of chase gone wrong and another kid getting attacked by her zombified mother while their sibling watches hidden sight from sight.
* JerkassHasAPoint: The guy that fed everyone at Jihulyeon human meat is right about people putting their lives at peril over moral quarrels. In Episode 3, he explains that they should bury or burn the zombies as soon as possible before nightfall, but then the remaining villagers object to burning the bodies because it's culturally disrespectful and the nobles want to separate the peasant corpses from the noble corpses, a difficult task since they would have to destroy the heads, making identification hard.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: The man that fed the village human meat, since it ended up turning almost everyone in the village into zombies.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: The jerkass nobles and police lock away one of the main characters in jail, but it becomes helpful when the zombies come. Almost all of the nobles and police involved in this end up getting killed when they try to use the jail cells while trying to escape the zombies.
* NoSell: When the zombie outbreak happens, numerous characters have trouble trying to kill the zombies because they strike them anywhere else besides the head. A [[OffWithHisHead decapitation]] or other head injury works just fine, per usual.
* NotQuiteTheRightThing: The authorities discover the human-meat guy's storage of corpses and bring them back to the village to investigate the matter. Too bad they're zombified.
* OutZombiesAreDifferent: These zombies can run and move fast.
* PetTheDog: The dude that fed everyone human meat attempts to save a woman and her baby at the beginning of Episode 3, and though it's sadly too late to save the mother, he manages to grab the baby before the zombies can get it too.
* WhatTheHellHero: To the guy that secretly fed everyone human meat.
