The South Korean nuclear-disaster film Pandora was released in 2016.
Pandora is a South Korean disaster film written and directed by Park Jung-woo. Its story follows a fictional nuclear power plant accident and the workers, families, and officials affected by the crisis. The film uses the disaster genre to examine industrial safety, government responsibility, and personal sacrifice.
The title echoes the Pandora image of dangerous consequences being released, but the movie is not an adaptation of the Greek myth. It is a contemporary drama shaped by concerns about nuclear technology and public safety. The Korean title is 판도라.
The film appeared in the context of heightened public discussion about nuclear power in South Korea. It is also distinct from the 2009 science-fiction film Avatar, whose fictional moon is named Pandora, and from the 2019 South Korean thriller Ashfall, another disaster movie with a different premise.