STORY: What looks like an ordinary sightseeing bus rolling past Seoul’s landmarks has been turning into a nightmare on wheels.

Screams echo through the night as “zombies” suddenly attack the vehicle, startling passengers on board.

It is part of Seoul City Tour Tiger Bus's Zombie Attack programme for Halloween this year. Demand has been so strong that the company expanded the programme by 50 percent to nine runs. All nine tours have sold out, with about 1,080 booked to take part.

Marketing team lead Kim Min-jung said the attraction is inspired by “Train to Busan”, South Korea’s best-known zombie movie.

The scares don't stop when passengers escape the bus. Part of the tour takes them to a park where they believe they have finally found safety after their vehicle comes under siege. Instead, more zombies are waiting in the shadows.

"(The zombies) were so flexible that their twisted, bone-bending movements looked so real, I thought they had jumped straight out of the movie," said 11-year-old Kim Ji-ho, who joined the programme with his father.

Even after the passengers scramble back onto the bus, the undead keep up their attack.

Son Chae-min, 21, said the zombies continued pounding on the bus, “which made it even scarier”.

The programme began on Tuesday (October 20), and runs through October 31.

DESCRIPCIÓN DE IMÁGENES

SHOWS: SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA (OCTOBER 21, 2026) (REUTERS - Access all) (NIGHT SHOTS)

1. ACTOR PLAYING CIVILIAN SCREAMING AT PASSENGERS / ACTOR PLAYING ZOMBIE CLIMBING OVER BUS AND PASSENGERS TAKING VIDEO WITH MOBILE PHONE

2. ZOMBIE ACTOR PERFORMING SCENE OF ATTACKING CIVILIAN ACTOR AND PASSENGERS TAKING VIDEO

3. PASSENGER TAKING VIDEO

4. ZOMBIE ACTOR PERFORMING ON BUS FLOOR

5. VARIOUS OF ZOMBIE ACTORS PERFORMING SCENE OF SEOUL CITY TOUR TIGER BUS BEING OVERRUN AND PASSENGERS ON BUS FILMING

6. VARIOUS OF ZOMBIE ACTORS HITTING BUS WINDOWS AND PASSENGERS FILMING

7. PASSENGERS FILMING AND BUS DRIVING AWAY

8. ZOMBIE ACTORS CHASING BUS

9. PASSENGERS SITTING ON UPPER DECK OF DOUBLE DECKER BUS

10. 42-YEAR-OLD PASSENGER, KIM SANG-YOON (RIGHT), AND HIS 11-YEAR-OLD SON, KIM JI-HO, SITTING ON BUS

11. BUS PASSING N SEOUL TOWER AND PASSENGERS TAKING PHOTOGRAPHS OF NIGHT VIEW

12. (SOUNDBITE) (Korean) 11-YEAR-OLD PASSENGER, KIM JI-HO, SAYING:

"(The zombies) were so flexible that their twisted, bone-bending movements looked so real, I thought they had jumped straight out of the movie."

13. ZOMBIE ACTORS PERFORMING AND PASSENGERS RUNNING AWAY

14. ZOMBIE ACTOR REACHING OUT HER HAND AND SCREAMING

15. VARIOUS OF ZOMBIE ACTORS APPROACHING PASSENGERS, PASSENGERS FILMING AND POINTING THEIR PHONE FLASH LIGHTS AT ZOMBIE ACTORS

SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA (OCTOBER 21, 2026) (REUTERS - Access all)

16. VARIOUS OF ACTORS GETTING ZOMBIE MAKE-UP

17. 27-YEAR-OLD ACTOR WHO PLAYS ZOMBIE, KANG YOON-CHAN, REHEARSING ZOMBIE MOVES

18. (SOUNDBITE) (Korean) 27-YEAR-OLD ACTOR WHO PLAYS ZOMBIE, KANG YOON-CHAN, SAYING:

"There isn't a zombie movie I haven't seen. I've watched every single one, along with thrillers, to research zombies. It's still incredibly difficult, but seeing people react in shock to my zombie acting makes me feel proud of my efforts."

SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA (OCTOBER 21, 2026) (REUTERS - Access all) (NIGHT SHOTS)

19. VARIOUS OF SEOUL CITY TOUR TIGER BUS ON ROAD

20. (SOUNDBITE) (Korean) MARKETING TEAM LEAD OF SEOUL CITY TOUR TIGER BUS, KIM MIN-JUNG, SAYING:

"Since 'Train to Busan' is a movie about zombies on a speeding train, we see a moving bus as having some similarities to a moving train, so we chose to set our story on a bus instead, with zombies appearing during the ride. "

21. ZOMBIE ACTORS APPROACHING PASSENGERS AND PASSENGERS SCREAMING

22. PASSENGERS INCLUDING 11-YEAR-OLD STUDENT, KIM SO-YUL, COSPLAYING "WEDNESDAY ADDAMS'" FROM NETFLIX SERIES, "WEDNESDAY", AND HER MOTHER LOOKING AT ZOMBIE ACTORS DURING PERFORMANCE

23. ZOMBIE ACTORS PERFORMING AND PASSENGERS TAKING PHOTOGRAPHS

24. (SOUNDBITE) (Korean) 11-YEAR-OLD STUDENT COSPLAYING "WEDNESDAY ADDAMS" FROM NETFLIX SERIES "WEDNESDAY", KIM SO-YUL, SAYING:

"I came dressed as Wednesday. I figured that coming with Thing (hand character) would help me fend off zombies, so I put this outfit on. The zombies in the ads didn't feel very real to me, but seeing them in person was so realistic and fun."

25. ZOMBIE ACTORS LYING ON GROUND

26. PASSENGERS INCLUDING 24-YEAR-OLD SON CHAE-YOUN, AND HER SISTER, 21-YEAR OLD SON CHAE-MIN, POINTING THEIR PHONE FLASH LIGHTS AT ZOMBIE ACTORS

27. (SOUNDBITE) (Korean) 21-YEAR OLD PASSENGER, SON CHAE-MIN, SAYING:

"On the way to catch the bus, I thought the performance was over, but then all the zombies came running from the far end and kept pounding on the bus, threatening us until the very end, which made it even scarier."

28. SON SHOWING VIDEO OF ZOMBIE ACTORS SEEN FROM UPPER DECK OF BUS

29. ZOMBIE ACTORS MOVING AROUND

30. ZOMBIE ACTOR CRAWLING THROUGH FOREST

31. ZOMBIE ACTOR ROARING