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Seok-woo, a cynical, workaholic divorced father in Seoul, agrees to take his young daughter Su-an to see her mother in Busan. They board the KTX train with a mix of other passengers just as a sudden outbreak sweeps the country, and an infected woman slips aboard right before departure.
A fast-spreading zombie virus breaks out inside a high school and soon reaches the surrounding city of Hyosan. Cut off from the outside world while officials scramble to contain it, a group of classmates must band together, stay alive, and search for a route out.
Park Gang-du is a slow-witted man who sells snacks from a little stand by Seoul's Han River with his father. When a huge creature rises from the water and attacks the riverside park, it carries off his daughter Hyun-seo. After a phone call reveals she is trapped in the sewers, Gang-du and his family escape a government quarantine to search for her.
Four years after a zombie outbreak overran South Korea and the whole peninsula was sealed off, former marine officer Jung-seok is living as a refugee in Hong Kong. Chinese gangsters hire him, his brother-in-law Chul-min and a pair of fellow refugees to sneak back and recover a truck holding 20 million US dollars, in return for half of it.
Ko Bum-seok is the police chief of Hope Harbor, a small village of mostly elderly residents near the DMZ. When his cousin asks him to look into a cow with gaping wounds, local hunters blame a stray tiger, but the attacks keep coming, and with wildfires cutting off help, Bum-seok and his rookie deputy must defend the village.
Scientist Seo Young-chul warns police of a bio-terror attack at the Dongwoo-ri Building, where a biotech firm is showing off a cell-regenerating slime mold. Among those inside are Kwon Se-jeong, an out-of-work professor hoping her ex-husband can help her find a job, and guard Choi Hyun-seok with his older sister. When an outbreak erupts, the building is sealed with everyone trapped inside.
In the near future, a failed drug has unleashed the Lytta Virus, an illness that drives the infected into fits of madness and bloodlust before leaving them zombie-like. Yoon Sae-bom is scratched while subduing an infected trainee from a special operations unit, and is taken to a research facility where she meets Han Tae-seok.
Parasitic creatures from outer space begin taking over human hosts, and a police squad called The Grey, led by Choi Jun-kyung, hunts them while keeping the attacks hidden. Supermarket cashier Jeong Su-in is stabbed one night, and a parasite that tries to seize her brain ends up sharing her body instead, something small-time thug Seol Kang-woo witnesses.
After a 2017 transfer of Korean criminals from the Philippines ends in a deadly bombing, police try again five years later by moving a new group of dangerous convicts to Busan aboard a cargo ship. Once the ship sets out to sea, the prisoners slip free of their cuffs and brutal violence breaks out on board.
Class 2-3 of Yooil High School heads to a retreat center on a field trip, but their teacher and the students of a second class soon go missing. When night falls, every student in the building receives a message announcing that a real-life game of Mafia is starting, and staying alive means rooting out the Mafia hidden among them.
