In the 2016 South Korean film Pandora, an earthquake strikes the nuclear power plant.
Pandora is a disaster film directed by Park Jung-woo. Its story begins when an earthquake damages a nuclear power facility, creating a crisis involving radiation, emergency response, government decisions, and the workers trapped in the disaster zone. The film uses the fictional catastrophe to explore public safety and the human cost of industrial accidents.
The title references Pandora’s box as a metaphor for releasing danger that cannot easily be contained. It does not retell the ancient Greek myth, and Pandora is not the name of the power station’s disaster mechanism. Instead, the title signals the film’s broader theme of catastrophic consequences.
The movie was released in South Korea in 2016 and later became available internationally through streaming distribution. It is sometimes grouped with nuclear thrillers, but its initiating event is specifically an earthquake rather than a reactor malfunction occurring without a natural trigger.