The only zombie movie I can say I really like is Zombieland because it's basically a spoof/satire zombie movie and it's hilarious haha.
Still want to see Train to Busan though, just for a Zombie blockbuster NOT set in America.
And will put iZombie on the list. I have heard of it, and seen some random bits of it around the interwebs. Sounds like a good areoplane binge show or something. (Tis what I did with part of VM haha)

I GOT SO BORED WITH TWD I couldn't get past episode 3 ish...just- nothing happened!! haha.
"if you're not going to be horror-comedy, you need to be interesting in some other way other than "the end is nigh""<< YES. This. Absolutely. Joseon has that potential for sure.
Oh and I'm also slightly invested in it because @redfox and I were literally talking about how we needed a zombie sageuk show just days before the first news of this came out... hahaha

My fave zombie movie is Shaun of the Dead for similar reasons. Train to Busan is high in my to-watch list (it's right under Okja). That one again, I'm into it because there are high stakes with the train setting etc. and it's not just how to survive the zombie apocalypse. The setting creates interesting tension. It's a reason I liked Snowpiercer so much -- it gave the end of days a new spin.

Shaun of the Dead is the only one of the Cornetto Trilogy I haven't seen... but I have been told to watch it a lot! haha

I am Legend with Will Smith is my favourite zombie movie. It made me cry. World War Z doesn't even come close.

Right, she'd work well with Ryu.
I don't think they have time for romance with only 8 eps. I hope it's more like Joseon X-files.

Oops -- Manchurian arrows, not Mongol.

While watching WAR OF THE ARROWS, I found the technological aspects of the weapons so fascinating I read up on the subject. (Ditto for the turtle ships in RAGING CURRENTS.) It came in handy later when watching another sageuk in which someone cornered the market on water buffalo horn, and I knew immediately what that meant. (No buffalo horn = no raw material for bows = no way to conduct an invasion or defend the country.) It might have been HWAJUNG, but I don't recall off the top of my head.

I didn't realize the leads won Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor in the 2011 Blue Dragon Film Awards. They deserved it. And Moon Chae-won scored Best New Actress, too.

Another thing I really appreciated about the film was the fact that all the Manchu troops were speaking Manchurian, which had Korean subtitles. Hearing the different languages made it feel that much more authentic.

Thanks for the pointer to MIRACLE IN CELL NO. 7. Now that I know Ryu is in it, I'll have to take a gander. ;-)

Yes! The language was impressive. "Cruel Palace" is the only sageuk drama that used Manchurian.
I'm glad Moon Chae-won is going back to Chungmuro for another sageuk.

Kim Myung-min was excellent in "Immortal Admiral Lee Soon-shin" the drama version of "The Admiral: Roaring Currents."
It's a 100+ episodes but it was worth it and it saved Kim Myung-min's career.

I learned so much about Korean history and tradition when sageuks are done well.
Sadly the more historical writers like Jung Ha-yeon are long gone. Chungmuro is my only hope for a good sageuk even when it's fictional like "War of the Arrows" it makes me want to pick up a history book and read or do more research. It helps me appreciate the hard work that went into making a sageuk this good.
Same goes with Lee Joon-ik's "The King and the Clown." So much research went into that and it paid off. I finally understood why Lee Jun-ki's character had to be more feminine and beautiful.
Going OT here sorry.

@kiara,

Late-breaking Sageuk Nerd update on water buffalo horn and archery bows mentioned in my post dated September 15, 2017 at 7:07 AM:

Eureka! I just started rewatching LAND OF THE WIND after finally viewing the cracktastic, epic, fabulous Korean horse opera, JUMONG. (The hero's name means "skilled archer.") You haven't lived until you've seen Song Il-kook shooting arrows from the back of a galloping horse. "Look, Ma, no hands!" indeed.

In one of the early episodes of LAND OF THE WINDS (about Jumong's grandson, Muhyul / King Daemushin), King Yuri of Goguryeo's daughter, the feisty Princess Sae-ryu, shops in the marketplace for a new bow. The seller congratulates her on her discerning eye for craftsmanship, and notes the high-quality water buffalo horn used in making it. IIRC, later a trader who's in cahoots with the antagonistic tribal chieftains under the leadership of Biryu quietly buys up the horns to corner the market: to stick it to King Yuri and deprive Goguryeo of raw material for arming its soldiers. Either that, or the Biryu chieftain's merchant minion gets in cahoots with Goguryeo's traditional archenemy, Buyeo, ruled by Jumong's adoptive brother, King Daeso. Water buffalo horn is strategic war matériel.