The 2016 South Korean disaster film titled Pandora follows a nuclear power plant accident.
Directed by Park Jung-woo, Pandora portrays a fictional nuclear disaster after an earthquake damages a plant. The story focuses on workers, residents, emergency officials, and political leaders confronting the consequences of a failing safety system. Its title evokes the idea of a dangerous force being released with consequences that cannot easily be contained.
The film was released in South Korea in December 2016. It belongs to the disaster-film genre, but its drama also addresses institutional responsibility, workplace danger, public trust, and the human cost of emergency decisions.
Pandora is not a direct adaptation of Hesiod’s myth, and it should not be confused with the 2009 science-fiction film Avatar, whose fictional moon is also named Pandora. The shared name reflects the myth’s broad cultural influence: Pandora is frequently used as a label for stories about risks unleashed by human actions.