South Korea produced Pandora, the 2016 disaster film about a nuclear accident. The Korean-language movie was directed by Park Jung-woo and centers on a crisis at a nuclear power plant.
The film follows ordinary workers and officials as an earthquake and plant failure create a dangerous emergency. Its story focuses on the human cost of industrial disaster, government response, public fear, and difficult choices made under pressure.
Pandora belongs to South Korea’s disaster-film tradition but is more specifically a nuclear-disaster drama. It is not an adaptation of the ancient Greek myth, despite using the mythological title to suggest that a hidden danger has been released.
The title works as a metaphor: opening the imagined “box” of a nuclear catastrophe unleashes consequences that cannot easily be contained. This distinction helps separate the 2016 film from other works called Pandora or Pandora’s Box.