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  • Netflix renews K-drama ‘All of Us Are Dead’ for season 2 

    By PTI

    LOS ANGELES: Korean-language zombie apocalypse horror series “All of Us Are Dead” will return for a second season, streaming platform Netflix has announced.

    The streamer shared the news on its official Twitter page on Monday night. “All of Us Are Dead has been renewed for Season 2! #GeekedWeek,” read the post by Netflix.

    ALL OF US ARE GLAD because we’re getting a second season of All Of Us Are Dead!!! #GeekedWeek pic.twitter.com/wR8wRyslf0
    — Netflix India (@NetflixIndia) June 6, 2022
    Based on Naver webtoon “Now at Our School”, the coming-of-age drama follows the lives of students at a high school in South Korea as they try to survive the zombie apocalypse outbreak caused by a failed science experiment.

    The first season of “All of Us Are Dead”, consisting of 12 episodes, received acclaim upon its debut in late January.

    The show starred mostly newcomers such as Park Ji-hu, Yoon Chan-young, Cho Yi-hyun, Lomon, Yoo In-soo, and Lee Yoo-mi, along with seasoned artists Kim Byung-chul, Lee Kyu-hyung, and Jeon Bae-soo.

    Yoon Chan-young, Park Ji-hu, Cho Yi-hyun, and Lomon will reprise their roles in season two.

  • No let-up in K-drama craze: ‘All of Us Are Dead’ now Netflix US No. 1

    By IANS

    LOS ANGELES: Four months ago, ‘Squid Game’ climbed to No. 1 on Netflix’s US daily Top 10 list on its way to becoming the streamer’s most-watched original series ever.

    Now, the Korean zombie drama, ‘All of Us Are Dead’, has accomplished the feat, according to Deadline. This makes Korea the first country to place multiple non-English language series on top of Netflix’s US daily Top 10, making it the most sought-after supplier of local content.

    ‘All of Us Are Dead’, which rose to No. 1 on its seventh day of release versus Day 4 for ‘Squid Game’, clearly rode on the latter’s coattails, benefitting from the skyrocketing interest in Korean dramas, reports Deadline.

    “But the one-two punch of ‘Squid Game’ and ‘All of Us Are Dead’ did not come out of nowhere. There had been a rapid build-up of interest in K-dramas on Netflix, with the US viewership jumping by over 200 per cent between 2019 and 2021,” says the entertainment news website.

    The 12-episode ‘All of Us Are Dead’ follows a group of students trapped in a high school who find themselves in dire situations as they seek to be rescued from a zombie invasion of their school.