Kingdom y el auge del zombi en la ficción televisiva surcoreana
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The proliferation of video-on-demand platforms and the globalization of television horror in the last few years has led to the appearance of representative monsters of Western popular culture in national contexts where they are not usually found. Starting from this premise, this article focuses on the study of those cultural, social and economic factors that have contributed to the popularization of zombie narratives in South Korea. Likewise, we will analyze the television show Kingdom (Netflix: 2019-) with the aim of unraveling the narrative developments it might incorporate with respect to the Western fictions dedicated to this creature, paying special attention to the way in which the metaphorical nature of the living dead is reformulated by adapting it to the cultural anxieties of South Korean society.
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