Gangnam Zombie

Gangnam Zombie Movie Details:

Country	South Korea
Language	Korean
Genre	Horror
Release date	January 5, 2023
Running time	1hr 21min
Starring	Lee Soo-Seong Choe Gwang-rae
Directed by	Lee Soo-seong
Screenplay by	Choe Seung
Produced by	Lee Soo-seong Choe Gwang-rae
Cinematography by	Kim Do-young
Edited by	Bak Su-jin
Production Company	Lee Film Joy N Cinema
Distributor	Contents Panda

Gangnam Zombie Movie Cast & Characters:

• Ji Il-joo as Hyeon-seok
• Park Ji-yeon as Min-jeong
• Cho Kyung-hun as Wangi, a man getting infected with a mutated strain of the coronavirus and becoming a zombie
• Choi Seong-min as Tae-soo, Hyeon-seok and Min-Jeong’s boss
• Tak Teu-in as Dae-Yeong, Hyeon-seok and Min-Jeong’s co-worker
• Jung I-joo as Soon-ja, the office building’s owner
• Yoon Jun-ho as Guard #1
• Park Ji-hoon as Guard #3

Storyline:

Citizens from upscale Gangnam District in Seoul start experiencing unusual and terrifying symptoms, devolving into inhuman creatures, leaving only a few survivors with the possibility to make it out alive.

Gangnam Zombie Movie Box Office Collection & Budget:

Worldwide Collection

US$394,420

About Gangnam Zombie Movie:

The movie was originally titled Gangnam (강남 ).

Filming began in December 2021.

In December 2021, Ji Il-Joo and Park Ji-yeon confirmed their participation in the film as Hyeon-seok and Min-jeong respectively.

This is Ji Il-joo’s first feature film and Park’s first in 7 years.

Production companies Lee Film and Joy N Cinema promoted the film at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival and screened its first trailer. The film was pre-sold to multiple South East Asian countries including Thailand, Mongolia, and Vietnam. In Vietnam, the movie was screened in over 40 theatres in Ho Chi Minh City alone.

The film premiered on January 5, 2023, in Vietnam, on January 5, 2023, in South Korea, and Thailand on January 12, the Philippines on January 18, and Mongolia on January 19, 2023.

International distributor Well Go USA acquired North American rights to the film.

The film was a commercial success according to production company Joy N Cinema which reported Gangnam Zombie was a great success and was their best-selling film at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival. The film was pre-sold in 134 countries before its release including North America, Germany, Thailand, Japan, the Philippines, Mongolia, South America, and Indonesia.

In South Korea, the film got only 2098 cinema admissions. According to Box Office Vietnam, Gangnam Zombie ranked among the top highest-grossing films in Vietnam in its first days of release, being the only South Korean film on the list. The film ended up ranking at 3 on the weekend revenue in the country grossing 4,4B Dong (~$187,000 US) with only $9,000 US from 3rd place; Vietnamese thriller “Blue Wolf: Wild Chrysanthemum in the Night”, over 48,000 moviegoers, ranking 3rd. It has accumulated about 6,7B Dong (~$285,000 US) during its first week.

Gangnam Zombie was also among the 16 notable films selected by Screen Daily at Cannes.