Young-Joo (Kim Ji-Soo) and her friend Jin-Wook have a talk in the car. But the car is hit by a zombie in Newtopia Episode 1. The zombie’s eyeball is glued to Young-Joo’s hand. She’s scared when she shows Jin-Wook the eyeball. He pretends to be calm. He actually peed.
Young-Joo and Jin-Wook don’t know what happened. There’s an out-of-control truck hurtles along. The bloody driver is stuck in the windshield. Jin-Wook ignores his wet pants and he gets off the car. The truck passes through them and it crashes into a store. The whole street is a mess. Scary zombies are everywhere. Doomsday is at hand. How will they save themselves. You will get the answer from the 2025 latest zombie k-drama “Newtopia”.
The story is set in the future Seoul. The hero Jae-Yoon (Park Jeong-Min) finishes his military service. He decides to leave the army. He’s in a good mood. He completes the discharge process and he wants to run to his lovely girlfriend Young-Joo. But the girl is getting farther and farther away from him no matter how hard he runs.
Jae-Yoon wakes up from the dream. He realizes that he doesn’t leave the army. He wakes up In-Ho because they need to be on duty. Jae-Yoon cannot reach Young-Joo so that he takes away the phone. He calls his lover when he’s on duty.
Young-Joo is sleeping. She doesn’t get woken up. Her mother is irritable to break into the bedroom. She asks her daughter not to let the guy call them in the morning. Young-Joo picks up the phone. Jae-Yoon questions her why she drank. He mentions the man picked up the phone last night. She explains it to him that the one who picked up the phone is her colleague. She was drunk after she attended the company gathering. Her colleague took her home. Jae-Yoon gets angry after knowing the truth.
Young-Joo drops the phone. She goes to vomit. The patrolling captain Young-Man catches Jae-Yoon who neglects his duty. Jae-Yoon worries about his girlfriend for a reason. Young-Joo is pretty and she has a good personality. There’re many men flattering her.
The next day, Jae-Yoon calls Young-Joo again. But the signal is terrible after she got in the elevator. There’s an air defense drill. Jae-Yoon has to go to gather. He works for Seoul Air Defense Force. His main task is to prevent the appearing of enemy plane.
The task is very simple. But the troublemakers Jae-Yoon and In-Ho are good at making mistake. The two throw away the missile after they tripped. The captain is speechless. They would be killed if it’s not drill. He’s angry to punish the soldiers to climb stairs.
The soldiers return to the dormitory. Young-Man punishes them. He disallows them to use phone. Young-Joo doesn’t know what happened to her boyfriend. She sends a message to Jae-Yoon for explaining what happened last night. Jae-Yoon tries to hand over the phone. He sees Young-Joo’s message. The phone is taken away.
Fortunately, Gye-Young needs someone to go to help in the kitchen. Jae-Yoon raises his hand immediately. Gye-Young complains it when he carries the food box. The two walk into the VIP area. They’re blocked by the staff member Soo-Jeong.
Gye-Young has an argument with the girl. Jae-Yoon doesn’t join the fight. He walks to the window and he looks at the building across the street. He thinks he just saw Young-Joo on the rooftop. Arron Park shows up. It seems that Gye-Young fears the man. He takes Jae-Yoon away.
The chefs are cooking in the kitchen. Jae-Yoon catches the chance to borrow a phone from Chef Jung. He calls Young-Joo then. He scolds the girl and he doesn’t listen to her explanation. He hangs up after he spoke out what he wants to say.
Young-Joo is lost to return to the dinner table. The colleagues know Young-Joo has a soldier boyfriend. They tease her that she doesn’t have to waste time on the guy if she doesn’t plan to marry him. Young-Joo isn’t happy after she heard the words. She makes an excuse and she leaves the restaurant.
But her mother scolds her as well after she returned home. She persuades Young-Joo to break up with Jae-Yoon. She thinks the guy isn’t worth the wait because he only cares for himself. Jae-Yoon knows nothing about it. He works with In-Ho and he takes back his phone.
He calls Young-Joo and he thinks she doesn’t care for him. She feels tired and she’s sick of him. She offers to think about if the love relationship should continue. He learns that she wants to break up. He wants to say something. But Young-Man is looking for him. Jae-Yoon has to go out to go on duty.
He complains it to In-Ho about the phone. In-Ho got married and he has a child. He asks Jae-Yoon if he will marry his girlfriend after he leaves the army. Jae-Yoon cannot give the answer. He loves Young-Joo very much. But he doesn’t graduate. He never thought about the marriage. He thinks he doesn’t have right to require Young-Joo to wait for him.
Meanwhile, Young-Joo is sad when she looks at the photos. Jin-Wook calls her. She got the job because he recommended her. She promised to have a meal with him. She gets changed and she goes to see him. She plans to go to an ordinary restaurant. But he takes her to a high class restaurant.
She offers to buy the meal for repaying him. But he doesn’t agree and he offers to have meal next time. He asks her to pay the bill next time. She cannot refuse it. Jae-Yoon calls her at this time. They will have a long talk if she picks up the phone.
She doesn’t want to be not polite to the senior. So she ignores Jae-Yoon’s phone. She plans to call him after she returns home. But she doesn’t know he’s disappointed. He sends a breakup message to her. He hands in his phone. He thinks a lot because of In-Ho’s words.
He knows he will be 27 years old after he leaves the army. He needs to go to look for a job after he graduates. He thinks he’s not responsible for them if he lets Young-Joo wait for him without any plan. So he offers to break up. Young-Joo calls Jae-Yoon. But he turns off the phone. She doesn’t want to have meal. She plans to go to see her boyfriend. But it’s too late. Jin-Wook worries about Young-Joo. He offers to give her a ride.
Jae-Yoon and In-Ho receive a new task. They need to go to buy gasoline. The officer didn’t want to give the task to the two. But others are busy. He thinks there will be no problem because the two just go to buy gasoline. The two carry the gasoline tanks into the VIP area.
We’re not surprised that they’re blocked by Soo-Jeong. The Asia Superstar Awards will be held there. So the outsiders cannot get into the area. In-Ho claims that he knows the president. Soo-Jeong and Jae-Yoon think In-Ho is bragging. But In-Ho is a big role, according to the formula of k-drama.
Jin-Wook is nice to Young-Joo because his selfishness. He tells the beauty that he will always watch behind her. He wants to be a big tree she can rely. She doesn’t react. A bloody man hits the car. The eyeballs drop on Young-Joo. Jae-Yoon has an accident as well.
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The episode ends with the plane flying towards the building. Fortunately, the plane doesn’t hit the building. It crashes the street. Everyone takes photos of the plane in front of the window. In-Ho offers to go to buy gasoline. He thinks the army needs it.