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Seong Gi-hun is a divorced father buried in gambling debts and living with his elderly mother when he is invited to play children's games for a huge cash prize. He is taken to a remote island with 455 other players who are all desperate for money, and soon learns that losing a game means dying.
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.
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.
After a tragedy takes his whole family, Cha Hyun-su moves into Green Home, a shabby apartment complex. One night, terrifying monsters start appearing and tearing through the city. Hyun-su and some of his neighbors band together inside the building to stay alive, while other residents begin turning into monsters shaped by their own desires.
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.
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.
In December 2023, a massive earthquake and an extreme cold wave flatten Seoul, leaving just one building standing: Hwang Gung Apartments. Min-sung and his wife, Myung-hwa, live there and try to adjust as residents panic without power, water or any way to communicate, and that night a mother and her child from a collapsed building nearby beg to be let in.
Eight strangers agree to be locked inside a building for a game that pays them money for every minute it lasts. Known only by their floor numbers, they must buy basic supplies at a hundred times the usual price, and at first they work together to keep the game going as long as possible.
The crew of a struggling fishing boat, the Jeonjinho, fails to bring in enough fish and agrees to smuggle thirty undocumented migrants into South Korea for money. On the way back, the boat runs into heavy fog and rough seas while being chased by the maritime police. Young crew member Dong-sik finds himself drawn to one of the migrants.
At Incheon airport, a strange man named Jin-seok secretly carries a deadly virus onto a passenger flight, hidden in an asthma inhaler. Among those on board are Jae-hyuk and his young daughter Soo-min, while on the ground Detective In-ho starts tracing an online terror threat video back to the man.
Oh Taek, an ordinary taxi driver, is offered a big fare to drive a passenger all the way to Mokpo. He reluctantly accepts, only to realize his passenger is a serial killer, and he must rely on every bit of his wits to make it through the long, terrifying ride.
Mysterious sphere-shaped creatures fill the sky above Earth, and the senior class at Sungjin High School is drafted to fight them. Promised extra credit toward their university entrance exams, the students learn to handle guns and stay alive under Lieutenant Lee Chun-ho, their platoon commander.
In Jirisan National Park, rangers and park staff venture into the mountain's mysterious, unexplored corners to rescue survivors and lost hikers. Their work draws them into a mystery surrounding the mountain's many visitors, including people who arrive intent on murder and others who come in despair.
Nam Da-jung, a naive college student in debt, is invited onto Liar Game, a reality show where players deceive one another for a huge cash prize. After being tricked out of her starting money, she desperately turns to Ha Woo-jin, a brilliant former psychology professor and ex-con swindler, for help.
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.
Over a single desperate day, an ordinary man learns that his daughter has been kidnapped. To get her back, he must take on the serial killer living right next door, in a race against the clock where only the stronger of the two will make it out alive.
