Before enjoying the upcoming Zombieverse season 2 on Netflix, learn about the villain in the South Korean zombie reality show's first chapter. The series premiered last August 2023 and was highly praised for its zombie outbreak narrative.
Zombieverse is a blend of reality TV and zombie horror, giving viewers a twist of both genres. The show features contestants navigating through a world with zombies all around, and they must do whatever it takes to prevent transforming into zombies.
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What makes this show even more engaging to watch is that it features celebrated actors, famous personalities, comedians, and social media influencers. All trying to escape the deadly situation.
While most contestants try to help each other to survive, one character named Ro Hong Chul prioritizes his survival only. Turns out that Ro Hong Chul is the main villain in Zombieverse, who was assumed to have died by the end of the series, but is returning for Season 2! Read more to explore what happened to him in the first chapter.
What happened to Ro Hong Chul in Netflix's Zombieverse season 1
The self-serving participant in Zombieverse is undeniably Ro Hong Chul who didn't meet an unfortunate, but humorous narrative in the series, and viewers will see him back in the game after his transformation into a dancing zombie.
Yes, you read it right. Ro Hong Chul didn't die in Zombieverse, and we're going to explore how. In the eighth and final episode of Season 1, some of the contestants are seen trapped inside a Ferris wheel and trying to escape the situation.
Tensions escalate as Park Na-rae and Kkwachu turn into zombies, but they try hard not to until the end. The contestants cannot escape the wheel for quite some time, as they fear Park Na-rae and Kkwachu as well as the zombies surrounding them.
In a chaotic moment, Na-rae targeted Ro Hong Chul in his cabin on the Ferris wheel, and it looked like he didn't make it out alive. However in a humorous twist, at the end of Zombivrse Season 1, we see Hong Chul embracing his new life as a dancing zombie. This means Hong Chul is no more a human, and fans will find him as the energetic flesh eater in the upcoming season.
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How did Zombieverse Season 1 end? Exploring who made it out alive
The finale of Zombieverse season 1 was filled with chaos and unexpected twists like Ro Hong Chul's transformation into a flesh eater and only a few contestants making it out alive after giving it all to escape the zombie apocalypse set in Seoul.
The first contestant who couldn't even make it to the second episode was Yoo Hee-kwan, featuring how dangerous it is to survive while zombies are all around you. The competition tested the physical and mental limits of the participants as they doubted almost everyone throughout the eight episodes.
The key moments in the finale begin right after the surviving contestants take refuge inside the Ferris wheel cabins. Since nobody could be trusted and Park Na-rae and Kkwachu were already tuning into zombies, they started using walkie-talkies to betray each other.
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Tsuki betrays Hong-Chul by giving away his car number to infected Park Na-rae, knowing that she's holding a vendetta against him. This betrayal results in Hong-Chul revealing the location of Tsuki and DinDin, putting them in danger.
The Ferris wheel chaos ended with surviving contestants Yiombi Patricia, Lee Si-young, DinDin, Tsuki, and Kim Jin-young (Dex) as they moved ahead for the last-minute challenge. The constants were informed about a bat taking them safely, so they went ahead to get on the boat.
However, Patricia, Si-young, and Dex couldn't get on the boat, thinking they might lose. However, a bus comes to their rescue which had survivors in it, and the trio was able to get into it. Zombieverse Season 1 ends with the epilogue featuring the newly transformed Hong-Chul with whom viewers will catch up in season 2.
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