Jeon Ji-hyun zombie film 'Goonche' hits 4 million viewers in 14 days

Goonche crossed 4 million cumulative admissions 14 days after opening. No other film released in Korea this year has moved faster.

The climb was steep. 1 million on day 4. 2 million on day 5. 3 million on day 10. Jeon Ji-hyun, Gu Kyo-hwan, Ji Chang-wook, Shin Hyun-been, and Kim Shin-rok joined director Yeon Sang-ho to celebrate the 4 million milestone.

For Jeon Ji-hyun, this marks a return to cinema roughly 11 years after Assassination in 2015. The story unfolds inside a massive urban shopping mall where an unidentified mass infection has erupted. Survivors fight to stay alive as the outbreak spreads. The film's core concept hinges on "update-type zombies"—infected individuals share information through a network and continuously evolve. (Networked zombies that get smarter as they spread is genuinely different from what audiences usually see.)