World of Oz: The Porcelain Children

THE PORCELAIN CHILDRENA World of Oz StoryThere's no place like Oz. When an impossible alley appears in Seoul's Hongdae district, five strangers make a fatal mistake: they step inside. Park Ji-woo, a lost seventeen-year-old. Kim Min-seo, an exhausted mother seeking five minutes of peace. Lee Dae-jung, a retired teacher who knows these streets too well. Choi Sung-min, a university student fleeing his failures. And seven-year-old Yoon Ha-eun, separated from her class and crying in the dark. The puppet show promises freedom. A world without rules, without judgment, without the crushing weight of Seoul's expectations. Three clicks of their heels. Three repetitions of the chant. And their souls are ripped from their bodies transported to Oz while demons slip into their skins back home. Now they're porcelain. Now they're prey. Now they're performers in Shows where survival rates drop with each performance: 12%, 8%, 5%... The mathematics are simple and brutal. Modified into dolls, drowned things, forest creatures, and carnival nightmares, they must build impossible Idols, survive cosmic horrors, and watch as each Show strips away more of their humanity. HP Love dies. He always comes back. They won't. Because in Oz, the curtain never falls. The Shows never end. And back in Seoul, no one notices that the people living their lives aren't quite the same anymore. Five strangers. Four Shows. Zero survivors. A Korean horror odyssey where fairy tales have teeth, mathematics determine mortality, and the real terror is that back home, life goes on without you. Perfect for fans of cosmic dread, body horror, and the creeping realization that you might already be in the Show. Warning: Contains graphic transformation sequences, existential mathematics, recursive deaths, and the uncomfortable question how do you know you're still you?