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‘Squid Game's Kim Si-eun & Roh Jae-won Join ‘All Of Us Are Dead' As Korean Zombie Drama Season 2 Enters Production

‘Squid Game's Kim Si-eun & Roh Jae-won Join ‘All Of Us Are Dead' As Korean Zombie Drama Season 2 Enters Production

Yahoo23-07-2025
Stars from Squid Game and Weak Hero: Class 2 have joined Korean YA zombie All of Us Are Dead, which has returned to production this week.
Squid Game's Kim Si-eun and Roh Jae-won, Weak Hero's Lee Min-jae and Yoon Ga-i are the new cast members, joining the likes of Park Ji-hu, Yoon Chan-young, Cho Yi-hyun and Lomon. Based on the web comic by Joo Dong-geun, Lee JQ (Daily Dose of Sunshine) and Kim Nam-su return to direct a script from returning writer Chun Sung-il (King the Land).
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Production has begun on Season 2, coming three years after the first run of the zombie outbreak drama became a hit for Netflix, charting in Top 10 non-English TV lists in more than 90 territories. Here's a production and cast announcement vid for the new run.
Season 1 of the coming-of-age drama, set in the fictional South Korean city of Hyosan, saw a group of high school teenagers who struggle to navigate a zombie outbreak. Season 2 picks up after its conclusion.
The second one follows Nam On-jo (Park), who is now a university student in Seoul, as she struggles to move on from the trauma. When a new wave of infection suddenly hits the city, she finds herself trapped in another deadly fight for surviva, finding new allies played by Lee, Kim and Yoon Ga-i, who play a group of hardened university seniors with their own methods of surviving.
Roh, who appeared in Squid Game Seasons 2 and 3 joins as the mysterious Han Du-seok, a National Intelligence Service team leader. Original Hyosan outbreak survivors — Cheong-san (Yoon Chan-young), Nam-ra (Cho), and Su-hyeok (Lomon) — who have been attempting normal lives, also return.
The final season of Squid Game dropped on Netflix last month and is already one of the streamer's biggest hits, per the latest 'What We're Watching' data dump.
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