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A zombie wakes up [[IdentityAmnesia without a name or memories]] and spends his days in conflict with [[HorrorHunger his hunger for living flesh]]; over the course of more than a year he trains himself to move and speak like a human being and refrain from eating them. He takes on the identity of a PrivateDetective and struggles to make a living in the city of Gangrim, then teams up with local IntrepidReporter Gong Seon-ji to [[TheyFightCrime solve mysteries]] and piece together his own past in the process.
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'''''Zombie Detective''''' (''좀비탐정'', ''Jombitamjeong'') is a KoreanDrama starring Choi Jin-hyuk and Park Ju-hyun. It aired on KBS 2 on Mondays and Tuesdays from 21 September to 27 October 2020.
A zombie wakes up [[IdentityAmnesia without a name or memories]] and spends his days in conflict with [[HorrorHunger his hunger for living flesh]]; over the course of more than a year he trains himself to move and speak like a human being and refrain from eating them. He takes on the identity of a PrivateDetective and struggles to make a living in the city of Gangrim, then teams up with local IntrepidReporter Gong Seon-ji to [[TheyFightCrime solve mysteries]] and piece together his own past in the process.
The series was produced and promoted entirely in the midst of the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic as South Korea was one of the few countries to respond quickly and efficiently enough to curb the contagion, at least during the first wave.
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![[TVTropesWillRuinYourLife TV Tropes]] (and spoilers) are bad for your mental health.
* ActorAllusion: This isn't the first time a not-quite-human Choi Jin-hyuk has been enthusiastic about finding [[Series/TheGuFamilyBook rabbits in the woods]].
* BadassLongcoat: Standard outfit for a detective like Kim Moo-young. Bonus point for forcing us to watch the [[StealthPun pitfalls]] of something catching on that coat.
* BettyAndVeronica: Moo-young, much to his dismay, is the Veronica to
** Wang Wei's Betty and Kim Bo-ra's Archie. [[spoiler:Wang Wei gets the girl.]]
** Cha Do-hyun's Betty and Gong Seon-ji's Archie.
*** Do-hyun is also the Archie to Gong Seon-ji's Veronica and Bae Yoon-mi's Betty.
* TheCameo: A long list, but here are some notable ones:
** Members of K-pop group A.C.E play part-time employees at Daehan Tripe Restaurant, notably in episode 2 when they dance to 2PM's “Heartbeat”.
** New Zealand-born comedian Sam Hammington makes an appearance as a butcher in episode 5, along with his son William.
** ''Series/RunningMan'' star Yoo Jae-suk appears in one of Lee Tae-kyun's movie posters.
* CameraFiend: Det. Kim, Lee Seung-rok, and sometimes Gong Seon-ji.
* ChekhovsSkill: Gong Seon-ji's aptitude at shot put is put to good use when she has to stop Moo-young from running amok.
* DeadPersonImpersonation: Invoked. Before he died, the ''real'' Det. Kim gave his keys to a zombie, enabling the latter to fake his identity and later solve the case the former was on.
* DeathOfAChild: The Santa Claus case.
* EverythingsDeaderWithZombies: For much of the series you have just the TitleCharacter trying to look alive, just until the final arc of the series [[spoiler:when we find out he's not the only one.]]
* FateWorseThanDeath: Moo-young considers being a zombie as this. He lightens up when he sees hope that maybe he could go back to being fully alive.
* GenreBusting: Not easy to pin down genre-wise due to the way the series [[GenreMashup mashes up]] tropes of DetectiveFiction with {{Comedy}}, SliceOfLife, and, well, [[EverythingsDeaderWithZombies zombies]]. Certain points off the series parodize [[HistoricalFiction saeguk]] and [[IfIWereARichMan chaebol]] dramas, and its lead character even makes a point of voicing his thoughts about all of that.
-->''Dramatic dramas are bad for your mental health.''
** The series also categorizes itself as {{Fantasy}} but the final arc, [[spoiler:focusing on how zombies came to be,]] has a bit of a ScienceFiction streak.
* GenreSavvy: Tae-kyun, big time. All his knowledge of zombies usually ends up as film research, but pass it on to Gong Seon-ji and her boss and it's a lifesaver. Not that he knows why.
** Moo-young as well, thanks to Tae-kyun's BMovie and a survival guide book. Needless to say the two bond over the role of the zombie in narratives.
* GoryDiscretionShot: {{Pixellation}} is used over depictions of eviscerated animals and large knives. Other scenes like stabbings and shootings play it straight, with a few shots just showing the blood spilled but rarely the extent of the damage on the body.
* HorrorHunger: Moo-young defies this with a passion and goes to extreme (if not hilarious) lengths to avoid eating humans.
* IJustWantToBeNormal: What Moo-young wouldn't give to be a living human again.
* InnerMonologue: How the zombie narrates the series.
* {{Leitmotif}}: There is one playing whenever Moo-young discovers something suspicious, particularly relating to his past.
** StandardSnippet: The first movement of Music/LudwigVanBeethoven's ''Moonlight'' sonata plays whenever Moo-young has an existential crisis.
* LoveMakesYouEvil: The Santa Claus murderer [[spoiler: badly wanted to replace the family that he lost in a fire around Christmas early in his life.]]
** The Shadow case. [[spoiler:Noh Poong-shik synthesized the serum that turned Kang Min-ho into a zombie simply because the vet wanted to bring his wife BackFromTheDead. The abductions were to feed her.]]
* MinorCrimeRevealsMajorPlot: As it turns out, there's even more to the illegally buried medical waste that Det. Kim was after.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: All over Moo-young's face every moment he snaps out of his zombie instincts, though most ardent [[spoiler:when he recalls his involvement in the Santa Claus murder case]].
** Seon-ji upon hearing that her interviewee for the Santa Claus case was attacked.
* NoDeadBodyPoops: At least one person has tried to discuss this, but to no answer. Moo-young does [[SheCleansUpNicely take baths]] though.
* OnceMoreWithClarity: Several scenes get repeated to [[TheReveal reveal]] more details left unnoticed previously. Best shown when the prologue shot of the medical waste spilling onto the grass is re-run [[spoiler:to emphasize the liquid spilling towards a dead hand with a broken watch sticking out of the earth]].
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: Zombies here are pretty much corpses who retain a bit of their humanity upon resurrecting but can hardly grasp the rest without learning to reintegrate with humans. They can survive on [[VegetarianVampire animals as a not-too-satisfying substitute]] for human flesh. If they starve for too long [[NothingIsScarier they black out]], and then all hell breaks loose. Luckily for everyone in Gangrim, no ZombieApocalypse.
** RevenantZombie: Two, [[spoiler: Kang Min-ho and especially Noh Poong-shik who redeveloped his zombie serum after taking blood samples from Min-ho; the new serum turned Poong-shik into a zombie just as smart as Min-ho within a far shorter time span.]]
* PerpetualMotionMonster: Quite a few people have wondered why Kim Moo-young never seems to get tired, fall asleep, or [[NoDeadBodyPoops need to go to the bathroom]].
* PetTheDog: Literally with Hodu the chihuahua.
* RealityEnsues: Moo-young easily grows aware of his pennilessness and so struggles to find a way to make ends meet while keeping contact with humans at a minimum.
* RedOniBlueOni: Seon-ji is the red to Moo-young's and Do-hyun's blue, but is the blue to Seon-young's red.
** The [[ThoseTwoGuys World King]] duo: Lee Seung-rok (red), Wang Wei (blue).
* ReverseWhodunit: Det. Kim's own murder, whose culprit the zombie easily remembers.
* SeparateSceneStorytelling: Tae-kyun's movie proposals get a dose of this, sometimes taking up a sizable fraction of a half-hour episode. Comes with a UniversalAdaptorCast, too.
* ShowWithinAShow: Quite a few, but special mention to Tae-kyun's BMovie ''Fast Film/TrainToBusan''.
* SleuthDatesCop: Though [[FriendOnTheForce Cha Do-hyun]] and [[IntrepidReporter Gong Seon-ji]] have their moments together, they hardly have feelings for each other as they put work before anything else. Seon-ji's sister Seon-young constantly talks about getting the two to marry, but ultimately stops [[spoiler:as Do-hyun reciprocates feelings for his colleague Bae Yoon-mi and Seon-ji takes over Kim Moo-young's agency.]]
* SliceOfLife: Has shades of this. Without the missing cases shaping the story arcs, this would mostly just be about how a zombie has to adjust to regular urban human life.
* SlidingScaleOfUndeadRegeneration: Type II. Moo-young's [[spoiler:stab and gunshot]] wounds don't heal, but he doesn't easily show signs of rotting, either.
* TaintedVeins: Much like the corpses in ''Film/WarmBodies''.
* TapOnTheHead: RemovingTheHeadOrDestroyingTheBrain is the obvious kill method, but if you want to keep your FriendlyZombie alive, a hard smack at the back of the head will do.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Tripe. Moo-young sees an opportunity to be human when he awakes from HorrorHunger blackout having feasted on a pack of tripe instead of a living animal, and sticks the foil pack on the wall as a motivator. Heck, he grows a huge smile on his face when he hears the sound of Kim Bo-ra's Daehan Tripe Restaurant attracting customers!
** As it turns out, tripe was a favorite [[spoiler:of Kang Min-ho, especially when his mother Kim Kyung-ja made him some beef tripe hot pot for breakfast.]]
* WhodunnitToMe: The Santa Claus case and the Shadow case turn out to link to the zombie's death and undeath respectively.
* YouWatchTooMuchX: Moo-young tends to attribute Seon-ji's enthusiastic demeanor to watching too many movies and dramas, particularly romance.
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-->''I'm the [[BackFromTheDead resurrected]] [[FateWorseThanDeath misery]]. The [[TitleDrop zombie detective]].''
[[caption-width-right:300:[[WunzaPlot One's a zombie. The other's a human.]] TheyFightCrime]]
'''''Zombie Detective''''' (''좀비탐정'', ''Jombitamjeong'') is a KoreanDrama starring Choi Jin-hyuk and Park Ju-hyun. It aired on KBS 2 on Mondays and Tuesdays from 21 September to 27 October 2020.
A zombie wakes up [[IdentityAmnesia without a name or memories]] and spends his days in conflict with [[HorrorHunger his hunger for living flesh]]; over the course of more than a year he trains himself to move and speak like a human being and refrain from eating them. He takes on the identity of a PrivateDetective and struggles to make a living in the city of Gangrim, then teams up with local IntrepidReporter Gong Seon-ji to [[TheyFightCrime solve mysteries]] and piece together his own past in the process.
The series was produced and promoted entirely in the midst of the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic as South Korea was one of the few countries to respond quickly and efficiently enough to curb the contagion, at least during the first wave.
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![[TVTropesWillRuinYourLife TV Tropes]] (and spoilers) are bad for your mental health.
* ActorAllusion: This isn't the first time a not-quite-human Choi Jin-hyuk has been enthusiastic about finding [[Series/TheGuFamilyBook rabbits in the woods]].
* BadassLongcoat: Standard outfit for a detective like Kim Moo-young. Bonus point for forcing us to watch the [[StealthPun pitfalls]] of something catching on that coat.
* BettyAndVeronica: Moo-young, much to his dismay, is the Veronica to
** Wang Wei's Betty and Kim Bo-ra's Archie. [[spoiler:Wang Wei gets the girl.]]
** Cha Do-hyun's Betty and Gong Seon-ji's Archie.
*** Do-hyun is also the Archie to Gong Seon-ji's Veronica and Bae Yoon-mi's Betty.
* TheCameo: A long list, but here are some notable ones:
** Members of K-pop group A.C.E play part-time employees at Daehan Tripe Restaurant, notably in episode 2 when they dance to 2PM's “Heartbeat”.
** New Zealand-born comedian Sam Hammington makes an appearance as a butcher in episode 5, along with his son William.
** ''Series/RunningMan'' star Yoo Jae-suk appears in one of Lee Tae-kyun's movie posters.
* CameraFiend: Det. Kim, Lee Seung-rok, and sometimes Gong Seon-ji.
* ChekhovsSkill: Gong Seon-ji's aptitude at shot put is put to good use when she has to stop Moo-young from running amok.
* DeadPersonImpersonation: Invoked. Before he died, the ''real'' Det. Kim gave his keys to a zombie, enabling the latter to fake his identity and later solve the case the former was on.
* DeathOfAChild: The Santa Claus case.
* EverythingsDeaderWithZombies: For much of the series you have just the TitleCharacter trying to look alive, just until the final arc of the series [[spoiler:when we find out he's not the only one.]]
* FateWorseThanDeath: Moo-young considers being a zombie as this. He lightens up when he sees hope that maybe he could go back to being fully alive.
* GenreBusting: Not easy to pin down genre-wise due to the way the series [[GenreMashup mashes up]] tropes of DetectiveFiction with {{Comedy}}, SliceOfLife, and, well, [[EverythingsDeaderWithZombies zombies]]. Certain points off the series parodize [[HistoricalFiction saeguk]] and [[IfIWereARichMan chaebol]] dramas, and its lead character even makes a point of voicing his thoughts about all of that.
-->''Dramatic dramas are bad for your mental health.''
** The series also categorizes itself as {{Fantasy}} but the final arc, [[spoiler:focusing on how zombies came to be,]] has a bit of a ScienceFiction streak.
* GenreSavvy: Tae-kyun, big time. All his knowledge of zombies usually ends up as film research, but pass it on to Gong Seon-ji and her boss and it's a lifesaver. Not that he knows why.
** Moo-young as well, thanks to Tae-kyun's BMovie and a survival guide book. Needless to say the two bond over the role of the zombie in narratives.
* GoryDiscretionShot: {{Pixellation}} is used over depictions of eviscerated animals and large knives. Other scenes like stabbings and shootings play it straight, with a few shots just showing the blood spilled but rarely the extent of the damage on the body.
* HorrorHunger: Moo-young defies this with a passion and goes to extreme (if not hilarious) lengths to avoid eating humans.
* IJustWantToBeNormal: What Moo-young wouldn't give to be a living human again.
* InnerMonologue: How the zombie narrates the series.
* {{Leitmotif}}: There is one playing whenever Moo-young discovers something suspicious, particularly relating to his past.
** StandardSnippet: The first movement of Music/LudwigVanBeethoven's ''Moonlight'' sonata plays whenever Moo-young has an existential crisis.
* LoveMakesYouEvil: The Santa Claus murderer [[spoiler: badly wanted to replace the family that he lost in a fire around Christmas early in his life.]]
** The Shadow case. [[spoiler:Noh Poong-shik synthesized the serum that turned Kang Min-ho into a zombie simply because the vet wanted to bring his wife BackFromTheDead. The abductions were to feed her.]]
* MinorCrimeRevealsMajorPlot: As it turns out, there's even more to the illegally buried medical waste that Det. Kim was after.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: All over Moo-young's face every moment he snaps out of his zombie instincts, though most ardent [[spoiler:when he recalls his involvement in the Santa Claus murder case]].
** Seon-ji upon hearing that her interviewee for the Santa Claus case was attacked.
* NoDeadBodyPoops: At least one person has tried to discuss this, but to no answer. Moo-young does [[SheCleansUpNicely take baths]] though.
* OnceMoreWithClarity: Several scenes get repeated to [[TheReveal reveal]] more details left unnoticed previously. Best shown when the prologue shot of the medical waste spilling onto the grass is re-run [[spoiler:to emphasize the liquid spilling towards a dead hand with a broken watch sticking out of the earth]].
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: Zombies here are pretty much corpses who retain a bit of their humanity upon resurrecting but can hardly grasp the rest without learning to reintegrate with humans. They can survive on [[VegetarianVampire animals as a not-too-satisfying substitute]] for human flesh. If they starve for too long [[NothingIsScarier they black out]], and then all hell breaks loose. Luckily for everyone in Gangrim, no ZombieApocalypse.
** RevenantZombie: Two, [[spoiler: Kang Min-ho and especially Noh Poong-shik who redeveloped his zombie serum after taking blood samples from Min-ho; the new serum turned Poong-shik into a zombie just as smart as Min-ho within a far shorter time span.]]
* PerpetualMotionMonster: Quite a few people have wondered why Kim Moo-young never seems to get tired, fall asleep, or [[NoDeadBodyPoops need to go to the bathroom]].
* PetTheDog: Literally with Hodu the chihuahua.
* RealityEnsues: Moo-young easily grows aware of his pennilessness and so struggles to find a way to make ends meet while keeping contact with humans at a minimum.
* RedOniBlueOni: Seon-ji is the red to Moo-young's and Do-hyun's blue, but is the blue to Seon-young's red.
** The [[ThoseTwoGuys World King]] duo: Lee Seung-rok (red), Wang Wei (blue).
* ReverseWhodunit: Det. Kim's own murder, whose culprit the zombie easily remembers.
* SeparateSceneStorytelling: Tae-kyun's movie proposals get a dose of this, sometimes taking up a sizable fraction of a half-hour episode. Comes with a UniversalAdaptorCast, too.
* ShowWithinAShow: Quite a few, but special mention to Tae-kyun's BMovie ''Fast Film/TrainToBusan''.
* SleuthDatesCop: Though [[FriendOnTheForce Cha Do-hyun]] and [[IntrepidReporter Gong Seon-ji]] have their moments together, they hardly have feelings for each other as they put work before anything else. Seon-ji's sister Seon-young constantly talks about getting the two to marry, but ultimately stops [[spoiler:as Do-hyun reciprocates feelings for his colleague Bae Yoon-mi and Seon-ji takes over Kim Moo-young's agency.]]
* SliceOfLife: Has shades of this. Without the missing cases shaping the story arcs, this would mostly just be about how a zombie has to adjust to regular urban human life.
* SlidingScaleOfUndeadRegeneration: Type II. Moo-young's [[spoiler:stab and gunshot]] wounds don't heal, but he doesn't easily show signs of rotting, either.
* TaintedVeins: Much like the corpses in ''Film/WarmBodies''.
* TapOnTheHead: RemovingTheHeadOrDestroyingTheBrain is the obvious kill method, but if you want to keep your FriendlyZombie alive, a hard smack at the back of the head will do.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Tripe. Moo-young sees an opportunity to be human when he awakes from HorrorHunger blackout having feasted on a pack of tripe instead of a living animal, and sticks the foil pack on the wall as a motivator. Heck, he grows a huge smile on his face when he hears the sound of Kim Bo-ra's Daehan Tripe Restaurant attracting customers!
** As it turns out, tripe was a favorite [[spoiler:of Kang Min-ho, especially when his mother Kim Kyung-ja made him some beef tripe hot pot for breakfast.]]
* WhodunnitToMe: The Santa Claus case and the Shadow case turn out to link to the zombie's death and undeath respectively.
* YouWatchTooMuchX: Moo-young tends to attribute Seon-ji's enthusiastic demeanor to watching too many movies and dramas, particularly romance.
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-->''I'm the [[BackFromTheDead resurrected]] [[FateWorseThanDeath misery]]. The [[TitleDrop zombie detective]].''
