In the 2013 film World War Z, Gerry Lane visits South Korea to investigate the zombie outbreak.
Gerry, a former United Nations investigator, travels to a U.S. military base in South Korea after leaving his family aboard a ship. He learns that the outbreak has spread internationally and searches for information that might explain the infected’s behavior and reveal a possible weakness.
The South Korean sequence includes the base at Camp Humphreys and introduces the idea that the outbreak may have been observed there earlier than in many other locations. Gerry then continues his investigation in Jerusalem and at a World Health Organization research facility in Wales.
The film stars Brad Pitt as Gerry and was directed by Marc Forster. It is loosely based on Max Brooks’s 2006 novel, though the movie’s family-centered action narrative differs greatly from the book’s oral-history structure. South Korea is therefore an important early investigation stop, not the film’s final setting.