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Newtopia (2025)
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Original name: 뉴토피아
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Jae-yoon, a late military enlistee, and his girlfriend, Young-joo, break up over the phone over growing misunderstandings. But a zombie outbreak rocks the world. A national emergency is declared, a plane crashes in the city center, and Jae-yoon and his unit get trapped on top of a Seoul skyscraper. Young-joo risks the zombie-filled streets to find him. Can their love survive the apocalypse?
Style:
tense, suspense, fast paced, romantic drama, bleak
Plot:
zombie, military, survival, apocalypse, post apocalypse, couples, chaos, desperation, survival horror, trapped, hopes, pandemic, skyscraper, heroism, isolation, evacuation, male protagonist, loss, rescue mission, engineer, female protagonist, breakup, zombie apocalypse, reunion, cityscape
Time:
contemporary
Place:
south korea, seoul
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