Hyosan High School

* Outbreak
* Current
* Before

**Hyosan High School** was a fictional school located in Hyosan, South Korea. Most of the characters worked or studied within this academy. The school was where the initial zombie outbreak began.

## History

### Pre-Apocalypse

The school was located at the outskirts of Hyosan near a river. It was well known in Hyosan and had a good reputation. However, this reputation was only maintained by suppressing any reports of bullying within the school. This emboldened the bullies, who would often torment other students in class, as well as blackmailing their victims and threatening them into silence. The situation became so bad that at least two students attempted suicide prior to the zombie outbreak. The school's science teacher Lee Byeong-chan developed the virus because he felt that there was no other way to make the bullies stop tormenting his son.

### Post-Apocalypse

The viral outbreak began when one of the school bullies, Kim Hyeon-ju, stayed late after school and was bitten by an infected mouse in the science lab when she tried to pet it after investigating the noise it made, where Byeong-chan had been using the equipment to try and find a cure for his son and wife entered the room not long after and realize what had happened. Byeong-chan tried to restrain Hyeon-ju by tying her to a radiator but she escaped the next day; after escaping, she was taken to the school nurse's office by Park Sun-hwa and bit the nurse before being sedated and taken to Hyosan Hospital.

The nurse succumbed to the virus during lunch break and attacked several students, causing a mass stampede through the canteen and panic within school grounds. The principal initially refused to believe what was happening, and even criticized Sun-hwa for calling an ambulance for Hyeon-ju, as it would make the school look bad. He told any outsiders who called that everything was fine. As such, the emergency services only found out about the virus when students and hospital patients began calling with reports of extreme violence.

It is unknown how many - if any - students were able to escape the campus during the initial outbreak, survived, or killed themselves to avoid it. In the webtoon, 37 were confirmed to have died by suicide. Several parents were also infected when they came to the school to find their children, including Lee Cheong-san's mother and Kim Ji-min's parents.

The day after the outbreak, the military sent two helicopters to the school. The first found Kim Cheol-soo, who lied about being the only survivor and left the Hyosan School Group locked in the fire escape stairwell. The second was sent to find Byeong-chan's laptop and was initially going to rescue the School Group once they had retrieved it. However, after Min Eun-ji was revealed to be a halfbie by biting Cheol-soo in the middle of a crowd of survivors despite the camp's zombie screening process, the military commander ordered all students to be left behind as potential halfbies. The information from Byeong-chan and his laptop revealed that the school was ground zero for the virus, and army commander Jin Seon-mu ordered it to be bombed.

### After the bombing

The main structure of the school survived the explosion, but everything and everyone inside was burned, and a giant hole was left in the football field.

## Appearance

### Building

*Main article: Hyosan High School Layout*
The school had at least five buildings (not including the construction site): the main building, the dining area, another building located near the archery center, the archery center itself, and the gym. In front of the main entrance was a big football field.

### Student Uniform

*These are the formal uniforms worn by students in **Hyosan High School**:*

#### Female Uniforms

The female uniform consists of a white long-sleeved button-up shirt (short sleeved in summer with a black and white collar) under a dark green sweater with a name tag and school logo, as well as a green and white bowtie, and a grey and white plaid skirt.

Some female students choose to wear blazers over their shirts or a sweater vest, school sweatpants or dark leggings under their skirts, or the male uniforms' trousers or school sweatpants instead of the skirt.

#### Male Uniforms

Male students wear white long-sleeved button-up shirts (short-sleeved in summer), and either a sleeveless dark green vest, a green long sleeved sweater or a long-sleeved blazer, both with a name tag above a circular badge. The lower half of the uniform consists of grey and white plaid trousers and white shoes.

Some male students wear school sweatpants instead of trousers, or plain dark green pants.

#### Name tags

* **Orange Name tag** - The orange name tag is for freshman and sophomore students.
* **Red Name tag** - The red name tag is for junior students.
* **Blue Name tag** - The blue name tag is for senior students.

#### Other Uniforms

* **Archery Uniform** - Members of the school archery team wear dark trousers, a white shirt, and a white zip-up jacket with the school logo. Including Jang Ha-ri, Jung Min-jae, and Park Mi-jin who were seen wearing them.
* **Choir Uniform** - Members of the choir wore the typical school uniform but with a plain, dark tie or necktie.
* **Gym Uniform** - Worn in gym class, this uniform consisted of orange and black shorts and shirt with a number on the back of the shirt.
* **Track Uniform** - The track uniform consists of sweatpants with two stripes on each side and a zip up tracksuit that is mostly grey in color but has dark sleeves.
* **School Hoodie** - A grey hoodie that can either be zip up or just a sweatshirt. Han Gyeong-su and Kim Hyeon-ju were seen wearing it in the first episode and several other students are also seen wearing it.

There are several students who don't conform to the uniform code. Examples include Seo Hyo-ryung and Lee Na-yeon wearing pink sweaters, Park Hee-su and Nam On-jo wearing non-school hoodies, and Yoon Gwi-nam wearing just the white shirt unbuttoned with plain dark green pants and a black t-shirt under his regular uniform. As well as Park Chang-hoon who wore a blue/purple Adidas track jacket over his uniform.

## Staff and Students

### Staff

Archery CoachJung Yong-nam † (Dean and Korean teacher)Kang Jin-gu † (Coach)Kim Kyung-mi † (Nurse)Lee Byeong-chan (Science teacher)Park Sun-hwa (English teacher)The Principal †
#### Others Staff

Archery Bus DriverChoir ConductorGroundskeeper †Kitchen Staff #1 †Kitchen Staff #2 †World History TeacherMrs. Jung
### Students

*Students' names are color coded by their name tag and school year.*

Choi Nam-raHan Gyeong-su †Hong Dae-won †Hong Ji-seong †Jang Do-minJang Ha-ri (Escaped)Jang Wu-jin † (Escaped)Jung Min-jae †Jung Yong-hyeon †Kang Yun-ahKim Cheol-soo (Escaped)Kim Hyeon-ju †Kim Ji-min †Kim Jin-sol †Kim Min-ji †Kwon Hyuk-jaeLee Cheong-sanLee Ha-lim †Lee Jin-su † (formerly)Lee Na-yeon †Lee Su-hyeok (Escaped)Lee Sun-mo †Min Eun-ji (Escaped)Nam On-jo (Escaped)Oh Joon-yeong †Park Chang-hoon †Park Hee-su † (Escaped)Park Mi-jin (Escaped)Seo Hyo-ryung (Escaped)Shin Hyung-seo †Son Myeong-hwanYang Dae-su (Escaped)Yang Yeong-ju †Yoo Jun-seongYoon Gwi-namYoon I-sak †
#### Background Students

Choi Woo-riHong Jae-yoonJung Ji-hyunJung Yun-jiLim Geon-wooYoo Seon-mooCha Young-sooLee So-jinLee Min-guSeo Hee-ranLee Seon-gyu †Kim Jae-ho †Kim Tae-ho †

## Trivia

* While most of the interior shots and roof scenes were filmed at a set, the exterior scenes were shot at a real school (though the original building doesn't have an accessible roof area).
* The school has a club called the ‘One Heart Club’, as shown by the jacket Gwi-nam wears after he becomes a halfbie. In the webtoon it's shown the club was a community service club.
* There are several differences from the school in the webtoon, namely:
	+ In the webtoon, the school has a bigger courtyard, was painted red and only had three floors.
	+ The webtoon uniforms consisted of green polo shirts with the name tags and school logo stitched on them, and blue pants or skirts, due to the events in the webtoon taking place in summer.
	+ The school does not seem to have confiscated phones from the students in the webtoon, as several characters throughout the series called their loved ones or received calls from them.
	+ In the webtoon, police officers are dispatched to the school, and the group finds a zombified police officer in the hallway. In the series, it is implied that a fire crew was dispatched, but their fate is unknown. As the surviving students do not encounter them, and believe that no emergency service workers came to help in an official capacity.
	+ The webtoon shows other survivors hiding around the school after the outbreak, who Gwi-nam deliberately targets and murders for fun. In the series, all of Gwi-nam's kills except Lee Na-yeon are for a specific purpose.
	+ Despite the webtoon showing and hinting at other surviving students scattered throughout the school, with even the group realizing that at one point, in the show this was never (clearly) hinted at as much as the webtoon does.
	+ In the webtoon, a group of three surviving students used the rain as cover to escape before the main group had the idea.
	+ In the webtoon, senior year students wear yellow name tags.
	+ In the webtoon, the school is not destroyed by a bomb, rather it's damaged due to being abandoned for eight months and due to a fire that started in a classroom.
* The background students were portrayed by either unknown extras actors or the zombie actors, only one has been revealed in the entire series of Season 1, who is a Filipina actress, Noreen Joyce Guerra, who portrays Kang Yun-ah.
* During the bombing a zombie is seen that has the same face as one of the background students, Seo Hee-ran but its unconfirmed if that zombie was her or if she even became a zombie.
* Hyosan High School's number is 048-633-4527
* Hyosan High School's address is 17-9, Myeonhak-ro, Hyosan-si, Gyeonggi-do.

## References

1. ↑ It was revealed in Episode 3 when Lee Cheong-san's mother called the school on her cell phone.

**Season 1**
Yangdong