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Greenery and flowering plants adorn its glass walls, and its center is dominated by what looks like a giant hourglass tipped on its side. Lee Kwang-soon is the first to enter the pavilion-style “symbol of balance,” which is essentially a safe room/starting line for the resulting sims. The Gist: The Zone: Survival Mission is slated to feature eight simulations over its first season, but the initial hook here is how little the producers seem to have told their participants about the format. “Korea is still going through the pandemic.” A man in formal wear is playing a grand piano on a pedestal situated atop one of the two-flats in the foreground, while below him in the street, people participate in a simulated gun battle. “The beginning of 2022,” says a voiceover.

Opening Shot: A cityscape spreads out before us. Are you ready for some pandemic-inspired escapist entertainment? Entering the mission control pavilion are comedian and television host Yoo Jae-suk, actor Lee Kwang-soo, and actor and former Girls’ Generation member Kwon Yu-ri, better known as “Yuri.” They’ve agreed to work as a team to survive each simulation, but aren’t fully prepared for how messy and outrageous these environments will get. In The Zone: Survival Mission, three South Korean celebrities have agreed to participate in simulations of disasters that might afflict humanity in the future.