Kim Ji-min

* Human
* Zombie

**Kim Ji-min** was a supporting character in *All of Us Are Dead* and a member of the Hyosan School Group.

## History

### Pre-Apocalypse

Ji-min lived in Hyosan and was childhood friends with Seo Hyo-ryung. She was a member of Class 2-5, where she sat next to Hyo-ryung, and was in the school choir. Her parents wanted her to go to school in Seoul, but she was scared of moving there, so Nam On-jo told her to skip school for five days, meaning the Principal would rescind his letter of recommendation. Ji-min did so, though she would later regret the decision to stay after the zombie outbreak.

On the morning of the apocalypse, her parents drop her off at school with a bag of soondae for the other members of the choir. Ji-min takes the bag, but shouts that she had told them not to give her anything before running off, to her parents' bemusement. After Kim Hyeon-ju collapses in their classroom and is taken to the nurse, Ji-min, Hyo-ryung and Lee Na-yeon discuss the possibility that Lee Byeong-chan kidnapped her as revenge for his son's presumed suicide.

### Post-Apocalypse

During the outbreak, Ji-min hides in Class 2-5 with some of the other students, and stops Na-yeon from keeping the door shut when Lee Cheong-san and On-jo arrive.

She then helps to build the barricades against the door when gym teacher Kang Jin-gu arrives, and escapes with the others after he turns and infects Kim Min-ji. When Na-yeon and Han Gyeong-su start fighting in the science classroom, Ji-min tells them to save it for later and help her barricade the windows, physically pushing Gyeong-su back from Na-yeon. After Yoon I-sak turns and gets thrown out the window, Ji-min can be seen trying to comfort On-jo while the others block the doors and windows.

In the recording room, while the group discusses what zombies might be sensitive to, Ji-min takes notes on their conclusions. Despite her earlier friendship with Na-yeon, and the fact that she initially believed her claim that Gyeong-su was infected by the broken window glass, Ji-min gets angry with Na-yeon's attempts to insult Gyeong-su and send him out of the room into danger.

This prompts their teacher Park Sun-hwa to make the fatal decision to send Na-yeon into the recording room to apologize to Gyeong-su. Instead, Na-yeon deliberately infects him, resulting in Gyeong-su's death and, later, the deaths of Sun-hwa and Na-yeon herself.

The next day, Ji-min tries to comfort Hyo-ryung, saying that the city is probably safe as there are police officers and soldiers out there. She says she wants to go and visit her dad's factory and her mom's café, and when Hyo-ryung points out that she hates the smell of both places, Ji-min says she does, but she just wants some of her mom's soup. Hyo-ryung teases her that she's finally grown up.

During the group's attempt to use a drone to contact the outside world, Ji-min notices her parents' truck crashed in the same place they had dropped her off that morning. When the drone approaches, she sees her zombified parents trapped in the front seats. This causes her to break down and attempt suicide by jumping out the window, but On-jo and the other members of the group pull her back. On-jo tries to comfort her in the recording room but Ji-min tells her that her hope is dead. She starts crying and rests her head on the table, triggering the school intercom and giving Choi Nam-ra the idea to use it to distract the zombies while they escape to the roof.

In the music room, Ji-min refuses to believe that Nam-ra is not a threat to them, arguing that all zombies are naturally inclined to kill humans - including halfbies. She tells the other members of the group to send Nam-ra out, but they refuse, although Lee Su-hyeok ties himself to her to make the others feel safer. Ji-min later finds the choir's camera, watching a recording of one of their performances before she records a message of her own. In it, she blames the lack of government and emergency service response for her parents' deaths and swears to get revenge on everyone responsible. She then records a message to her parents, promising to stay alive and kill every zombie to avenge them. Later, she can be seen in the background, curled up against Hyo-ryung.

During the escape from the music room, she bangs a drum to attract the zombies toward the barricade, and is the fourth person to leave the room. While trapped in the stairway, she helps Nam-ra and some of the others to drop a large piece of blue tarpaulin down and hold it in place over the stairs to try to block the oncoming zombies. Once on the roof, she helps the others to set up the new SOS sign. Around the fire that night, she is the first person who joins Yang Dae-su when he starts singing. She also confesses to having deliberately sabotaged her parents plans to transfer her to a school in Seoul, and says she regrets it now.

When Yoon Gwi-nam attacks Cheong-san on the roof, she is the first girl to join the fight, and holds onto his arm until he throws her back, giving her a bloody nose. After Nam-ra shows halfbie traits and throws Gwi-nam off the roof, Ji-min asks her if she would ever do that to the rest of them, to which Nam-ra doesn't answer, which upsets Ji-min, though she later apologizes for her outbursts.

Later, when the army squad arrives, the others tell her to get on the helicopter first. She is winched almost all the way up to the helicopter cabin, close enough that one of the soldiers there takes her hand, before being lowered when the order comes through to treat all Hyosan students as infected but asymptomatic. She starts crying as the soldiers shove her back towards the rest of the group, and begs them to take her with them. The soldier is ordered to shoot her, but fires warning shots into the air instead before leaving. She cries when it rains and swears up at the sky, angry over their repeated abandonment by the government.

### Death

During the escape from the roof, the group decide to hold hands in pairs so that no one is left behind. Ji-min and Hyo-ryung partner up, but when Hyo-ryung slips and falls, Ji-min runs to save her but upon seeing a zombie running towards them she fearfully panics and runs away to save herself. Zombies peel off from the main group and chase her onto the field, Were she begins to cry and is bitten and turned. A voiceover as Ji-min begins to turn into a zombie implies that the Jonas virus is evolving, paired with a shot of Ji-min's face covered in large blisters and bleeding from the eyes.

She is seen among the crowd of zombies vaporized in the explosion.

#### Legacy

In Episode 12, her name was supposedly written by the group survivors on the memorial.

## Physical Appearance

Ji-min had long black hair tied into a high ponytail, with bangs, brown eyes and pale skin. She wore the standard Hyosan female uniform, but with trousers instead of the skirt. As a zombie, Ji-min had several blisters all over her face, blood smeared around her nose and lips, and grass and dirt stuck to her uniform from laying on the field. During the bombing, her hair is messed up and the sleeve showing her bite mark is exposed.

## Personality

Ji-min was quiet and generally reserved, though she tried to maintain group harmony. Fairness was important to her - she got angry with Na-yeon not for thinking Gyeong-su is infected, but for insulting and betraying him. This sense of fairness lead to a growing sense of anger with the authorities for abandoning the school and - in her mind - causing the death of her parents, though this may also be a cover for a sense of guilt, as she was not kind to her parents during the last time they spoke.

This stress built in her over the course of the series. She started crying increasingly often, and tried to kill herself after discovering that her parents have been bitten. She became increasingly bitter and cynical, often telling the other group members to shut up and snapping at On-jo when she tries to comfort her after they learn her parents are dead. She also became increasingly nervous, particularly after Nam-ra is bitten, and her mental state seemed to deteriorate after being abandoned by the soldiers. This nervousness is likely what lead to a split-second decision not to go back to Hyo-ryung, and from there to get split off from the group as a whole.

## Relationships

	+ Unnamed mother †
	+ Unnamed father †
* Hyosan School Group
	+ Seo Hyo-ryung - Former Best Friend
	+ Nam On-jo - Friend
	+ Lee Cheong-san - Friend
	+ Choi Nam-ra - Friend, Former Enemy
	+ Lee Su-hyeok - Friend
	+ Han Gyeong-su † - Friend
	+ Yang Dae-su - Friend
	+ Oh Joon-yeong † - Friend
	+ Jang Wu-jin † - Friend
	+ Yoon I-sak † - Fellow classmate
	+ Park Sun-hwa - Ally
	+ Lee Na-yeon † - Enemy
	+ Kim Min-ji † - Fellow classmate
* Hyosan High School
	+ Yoon Gwi-nam - Enemy
	+ Lee Byeong-chan - Unknown
	+ Kim Hyeon-ju † - Fellow classmate
	+ Kang Jin-gu † - Enemy
* Military

## Gallery

Kim Ji-min seen on the field with other zombies.Kim Ji-min discovering her parents' death
## Trivia

* In the original webtoon she successfully committed suicide after discovering her parents' death after they called her in their final moments. Though she hanged herself by jumping out of the window with a noose on her neck in the morning leaving a suicide note behind, instead of being bitten by zombies in the football field.
* Only Hyo-ryung appears to notice Ji-min's disappearance, going by her shock in the auditorium cupboard, and it is not verbally commented on.
* Ji-min was the one who called the police in the webtoon.
* Kim Ji-min can be confused with Kim Min-ji.

**Hyosan High School Students**
Choi Nam-ra **|**
Jang Ha-ri **|**
Lee Su-hyeok **|**
Nam On-jo **|**
Park Mi-jin **|**
Seo Hyo-ryung **|**
Yang Dae-su **|**
Jang Do-min **|**
Kim Cheol-soo **|**
Lee Cheong-san **|**
Min Eun-ji **|**
Son Myeong-hwan **|**
Yoo Jun-seong **|**
Yoon Gwi-nam **|**
Han Gyeong-su **|**
Hong Dae-won **|**
Jang Wu-jin **|**
Jung Min-jae **|**
Kim Hyeon-ju **|**
**Kim Ji-min** **|**
Kim Jin-sol **|**
Kim Min-ji **|**
Lee Ha-lim **|**
Lee Jin-su **|**
Lee Na-yeon **|**
Oh Joon-yeong **|**
Park Chang-hoon **|**
Park Hee-su **|**
Shin Hyung-seo **|**
Yang Yeong-ju **|**
Yoon I-sak
**Staff**
Archery Coach **|**
Lee Byeong-chan **|**
Park Sun-hwa **|**
Jung Yong-nam **|**
Kang Jin-gu **|**
Kim Kyung-mi **|**
Principal

**Hyosan & Military**
Aides **|**
Choi Sung-won **|**
Hee-su's child **|**
Jeon Ho-chul **|**
Jo Dal-ho **|**
Kim U-sin **|**
Medical Officer **|**
Orangibberish **|**
Se-bin **|**
Song Jae-ik **|**
Park Eun-hee **|**
Party Leader **|**
Ahn Young-sam **|**
Detective **|**
Mr. Lee **|**
Jin Seon-mu **|**
Lee Jae-jun **|**
Lee Jin-su's mother **|**
Mrs. Lee **|**
Mr. Kim & Mrs. Kim **|**
Nam So-ju **|**
Park Young-hwan

**Others**
NIS Agent **|**
Prime Minister **|**
Car Accident Husband **|**
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