With the news of Kingdom Season 3, featuring Ju Ji Hoon and Jun Ji Hyun in discussions, fans are excited, but several might still wonder as to what the buzz is mostly about.
Predicated on a YLAB comic series, Kingdom is a tale of the emergence of a deadly disease that generates flesh-eating "zombies" that endanger the whole humanity. (via KdramaStars)
However, the series' real genre might well be that of a series involving diplomatic intrigue. Modern scares and fears are razed by this Korean dominance of the zombie sub-genre and brought directly into the Joseon age.
In Season 1, we discover that the King is sick or injured, or at least it's the general public's knowledge and understanding. The Crown Prince Lee Chang (portrayed by actor Ju Ji Hoon) was prevented from ever seeing his dad following directives from the new Queen, the King's second wife, who is pregnant with his child.
Trebling under the strain of his fears about his father's demise or even assassination, the Prince perpetrates into the King's chamber and is promptly declared a usurper. He headed out to locate the King's doctor, Lee Seung Hui, with his only trusted royal guard on his side. The pair sidles upon the outbreak that killed dozens of thousands down at the Jiyulheon health center in Dongnae, where doctor Lee Seung Hui is meant to be located.
Seo Bi, the only survivor, alerts them that the dead people concealed underneath the ruins are not entirely deceased but will soon rise in search of human meat in the evening. In the Kingdom, the working class is ignored. Medicines or herbs are not given to the sick, and neither are they cared for regarding food.
In the possible death by hunger, Young Shin, another clinic resident, chooses to cook a dead human body from the doctor's palace. The author has decided to start this apocalyptic zombie scenario, the bizarre agent of those casualties, in a genius work and uses it as a veil to discover darkened socio-political motifs feudal hierarchy, widespread political fraud, and an evil Queen. She lives only for control of the country.
