Sweet Home (2020) Season 1 is a 10-episode South Korean apocalyptic horror series that premiered on Netflix on December 18, 2020 . Directed by Lee Eung-bok, it is a live-action adaptation of the popular Naver webtoon by Kim Carnby and Hwang Young-chan .
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Sweet Home
The 2020 South Korean horror-thriller series (available on Netflix ) follows a reclusive high school student, Cha Hyun-su ( Song Kang ), who moves into the run-down Green Home apartment complex after a tragic car accident kills his entire family. His plans for suicide are interrupted by a worldwide phenomenon where humans begin transforming into savage monsters based on their deepest internal desires and greed. Core Premise and Storyline
At its core, Sweet Home (2020) adapts the webtoon by Kim Carnby and Hwang Young-chan with a crucial shift: it emphasizes collective trauma over individual heroism. The central protagonist, Cha Hyun-su (Song Kang), is a reclusive high schooler grieving the death of his family. His “curse” is not the monster inside him, but the desire for death itself. In this world, the monstrous transformation is triggered not by a virus, but by wanting . A woman obsessed with her lost baby becomes a giant, nurturing-yet-devouring uterus. A man addicted to physical prowess becomes an eyeball-covered mass of muscle. A religious zealot’s desire for martyrdom turns him into a grotesque, spiked angel.