The official English title of the 2016 South Korean disaster film about a failing nuclear plant is Pandora.
Pandora is a South Korean disaster film directed by Park Jung-woo. It follows a nuclear power plant worker and the people around him after an earthquake damages the facility and creates a severe nuclear emergency. The title references the idea of a container releasing catastrophe, linking the film thematically to Pandora’s box rather than retelling the Greek myth.
The film focuses on institutional decisions, workers’ risks, family bonds, and the consequences of a technological disaster. It belongs to South Korea’s modern disaster-cinema tradition and uses a fictional nuclear accident as its central crisis.
It is easy to confuse this title with Pandora’s Box, the classical expression or the 1929 German film. The 2016 work is simply titled Pandora in English-language listings. Its subject is a nuclear-plant disaster, not an ancient goddess or a silent-era character named Lulu.