Omniscient Reader: The Prophecy
2025 South Korean film
Omniscient Reader: The Prophecy (Korean: 전지적 독자 시점) is a 2025 South Korean action fantasy film directed by Kim Byung-woo, starring Lee Min-ho, Ahn Hyo-seop, Chae Soo-bin, Shin Seung-ho, Nana, Jisoo and Kwon Eun-seong. It is adapted from the best-selling web novel Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint by Sing Shong. The film was released in South Korea on July 23, 2025.
Plot
On his last day as a contract office worker at Minosoft, Kim Dok-ja, the sole reader of the web novel Three Ways to Survive the Apocalypse (TWSA), finishes the final chapter, where protagonist Yoo Joong-hyuk survives alone after the death of his comrades and all of humanity. Disappointed, Dok-ja writes a critical review to the author "tls123". While riding the subway home with his colleague Yoo Sang-ah, he receives a message from the author suggesting he write a new ending himself.
At 7:00 p.m., the train halts and a dokkaebi named Bi-hyeong appears, announcing that humanity must face scenarios imposed by constellations, beginning with the command to kill one or more living organisms. Realizing the situation mirrors the novel's first episode, Dok-ja kills an ant from a boy named Lee Gil-yeong's insect box to survive. Though he tries to help others, panic leads to bloodshed. As the scenario ends, only Dok-ja, Sang-ah, Gil-yeong, and 14 others survive.
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