Pandora is a 2016 South Korean disaster film that echoes the Pandora’s box myth through its story of catastrophic consequences released from a dangerous source. The film was directed by Park Jung-woo.
Its plot centers on a fictional nuclear power plant accident and the people affected by the emergency. The title connects the modern disaster narrative with the ancient image of a container whose opening unleashes forces that are difficult to control.
The film belongs to South Korea’s disaster-film tradition, but it is not a direct adaptation of Greek mythology. Its use of Pandora is symbolic: the name suggests technological risk, delayed consequences, and the human cost of opening or activating something hazardous.