Position Paper 4 - Wild Card
Hannah Diffee Professor Reppert Foreign Language Media in America Dec. 2024 Position Paper 4 - Wild Card A New Player Emerges in the Zombie Genre All of Us Are Dead is a South Korean horror drama about students trapped in their school amidst a zombie virus outbreak. The students must fight for their lives or risk becoming one of the infected. Along the way, unlikely alliances form and friendships shatter as the characters discover what--or who--is behind the outbreak. The series, released in 2022, is based on the 2009 Webtoon Now at Our School by Joo Dong-geun. Closely following its source material, the live-action series adapted the webtoon's 130 chapters into 12 hour-long episodes. In June 2022, Netflix revealed that season two was in the works. Characters The series follows several characters in the fictional city of Hyosan, South Korea, including: Students at Hyosan High School Nam On-jo: Cheong-san's childhood friend, neighbor, and love interest. Her fathe...
