Korea, birthplace of most modern fads, has spawned a lot more that just boy bands, girl pop stars and on the day I am writing this, a new mania for “deep fried toothpicks.”

I kimchee you not.

The southern half of the peninsula has owned the post-apocalyptic genre of movie thriller these past few years. The land that produced “The Host,” and the “Train to Busan” zombie movies even submitted a dazzling disaster film, “Concrete Utopia,” as its Best International Feature Oscar contender, the sillies.

“Badland Hunters” could be a companion film to “Utopia,” as it’s also tale triggered by a civilization-ending Earthquake. But the wags behind this one played it safe. They threw in zombies.

Years after the quake that crashed the country and the world around it, and that ended the “experiments” of a scientist trying to revive his dead daughter, a few survivors cling to life in The Bus District of their city, basically a parking lot of derelict public transport that people live in.

They’re preyed upon by goons who call themselves “police” and raid their bartering market in an overloaded mini-van.

But they haven’t counted on the Badass Badland hunter Nam Sam. He interrupts his trade in gator meat to kick some ass and take one name — that of whoever is running this gang. “Tiger,” the creep is called.

But Nam Sam (Ma Dong-seok, aka Korean action hulk Don Lee) has more important things to do than just hunt and repeatedly pull his bow-hunting young protege Ji-wan (K-pop singer Lee Joon-young) out of whatever jam he’s gotten himself into. Nam Sam watches after granny and her doting teen granddaughter Sun-na (No Jeong-ee), a sketch artist whom Ji-wan crushes on.

The goons let on that a lone apartment building in far-off Seoul is still standing, that it has food and potable water and people who will protect you and give residents hope.

This is the entire plot to “Concrete Utopia,” I should add.

But here, the mysterious, uniformly-dressed folks from that apartment tower come recruiting families with kids. Sun-na and her granny go. Of course, it’s not what it seems to be. No, “To Serve Man” ISN’T a “cookbook.”

When the “Badland Hunters” put the pieces together, they’re off on a quest to rescue Sun-na, fighting off the military survivors who protect this apparent cult bent on remaking or restarting civilization according to one madman’s (Kim Young-sun) dreams.

The story is recycled and nothing that should hold the interest of anybody who’s seen a single post-apocalyptic zombie movie. But the action beats are first-rate, the fight-choreography next level and the trash talk — in subtitled Korean, or dubbed — is top drawer B-movie pithy.

“So you’re the Hunter, then?”

“Guess you’re my ‘catch of the day!'”

Ahn Ji-hye shows up as an ex-special forces type who spearheads their quest, a two-fisted, two-footed lady brawler who is better than most any man she faces.

The pop star side kick gets to play heroic but often hapless, not remembering the rules about how you kill a zombie and cursing them in frustration.

“F—–g DIE!”

But it is the simmering, lumbering presence of Ma Dong-seok (“Train to Busan”) — who understandably goes by “Don Lee” when he appears in Hollywood fare such as “Eternals” — who holds this slim, bloody thriller together.

He dominates fights, warns people that he’s going to have to kill them and absolutely won’t let anybody fix him up with a date with a snake lady fellow survivor.

“I know the world ended, but I still have my standards.”

“Badland Hunter” isn’t much more than a genre pic, but director Heo Myeong Haeng and whoever did the fight choreography (Can’t read Korean, can’t find it elsewhere. Yet.), it plays and it gets the pulse racing every time the chips are down and the zombies won’t stay down and dead.

Rating: TV-MA, lotsa violence, profanity

Cast: Ma Dong-seok, Lee Joon-young, No Jeong-ee, Ahn Ji-hye and Kim Young-sun

Credits: Directed by Heo Myeong Haeng, scripted by Kim Bo-Tong and Kwak Jae-Min. A Netflix release.

Running time: 1:48