(and why the sequel failed to repeat that success) Yeon Sang-ho still remembers what was going through his head as he prepared to make Korea's first commercial zombie movie. "I remember when we were first planning in pre-production, I was like, 'I want you to be able to cry when you watch this film,'" Yeon tells Polygon. The result was Train to Busan, a breakout hit for South Korean cinema that became a global sensation and probably made a lot of people cry with its grounded, gritty portrayal of a zombie outbreak onboard a train headed south from Seoul to Busan. A decade after its 2016 premiere, Train to Busan is pulling back into theaters on Aug. 14, and to mark the occasion, Polygon hopped on a zoom with Yeon to discuss how he made a zombie movie for audiences who weren't familiar with the genre, why the sequel didn't achieve the same success, and whether he ever plans to complete the trilogy. The biggest challenge facing Train to Busan early on was that there was no built-in audience for zombie horror in Korea. Yeon knew the genre had potential, but he wasn't taking any chances. After directing a pair of animated features earlier in the 2010s, this was his chance for a live-acti
Aug 3, 2026 → Aug 17, 2026
US president’s abrupt order to scale back joint exercises with Seoul is meant to ‘flatter’ North Korea’s dictator, top Democrat says Donald Trump’s move to gut Washington’s 73-year-old military alliance with Seoul has been called “inane”…
Read original at The Guardian →5 updates from 3 sources over 2 weeks.
US president’s abrupt order to scale back joint exercises with Seoul is meant to ‘flatter’ North Korea’s dictator, top Democrat says Donald Trump’s move to gut Washington’s 73-year-old military alliance with Seoul has…
Read original at The Guardian →The director of Train to Busan's breaks down his new zombie movie, Colony Yeon Sang-ho broke into the movie industry with Train to Busan, a pulse-pounding zombie thriller with emotion and inventiveness to spare. Now, 10…
Read original at Polygon →EDITORâS NOTE:Â This CNN Travel series may have adjacent ads by the country it highlights. CNN retains full editorial control over subject matter, reporting and frequency of the articles and videos, in compliance with…
Read original at CNN →Trucks are dousing capital’s roads with water and nurses are checking on vulnerable people as heat heads westwards Seoul is bracing for its first ever “severe heatwave warning” on Tuesday, as South Korea reels from a…
Read original at The Guardian →(and why the sequel failed to repeat that success) Yeon Sang-ho still remembers what was going through his head as he prepared to make Korea's first commercial zombie movie. "I remember when we were first planning in…
Read original at Polygon →What this story stands on. Tier 0 is a primary record or the subject's own words; higher tiers must be attributed, never stated as bare fact.
US president’s abrupt order to scale back joint exercises with Seoul is meant to ‘flatter’ North Korea’s dictator, top Democrat says Donald Trump’s move to gut Washington’s 73-year-old military alliance with Seoul has been called “inane”…
View source →The director of Train to Busan's breaks down his new zombie movie, Colony Yeon Sang-ho broke into the movie industry with Train to Busan, a pulse-pounding zombie thriller with emotion and inventiveness to spare. Now, 10 years later, Yeon…
View source →EDITORâS NOTE:Â This CNN Travel series may have adjacent ads by the country it highlights. CNN retains full editorial control over subject matter, reporting and frequency of the articles and videos, in compliance with our policy. In the…
View source →Trucks are dousing capital’s roads with water and nurses are checking on vulnerable people as heat heads westwards Seoul is bracing for its first ever “severe heatwave warning” on Tuesday, as South Korea reels from a deadly heatwave that…
View source →(and why the sequel failed to repeat that success) Yeon Sang-ho still remembers what was going through his head as he prepared to make Korea's first commercial zombie movie. "I remember when we were first planning in pre-production, I was…
View source →Tier key: T0 = Primary source · T1 = Wire · T2 = Outlet report · T3 = Commentary
Voters in Quebec elected the separatist Parti Québécois for the first time in more than a decade, setting the stage for more strained relations with Prime Minister Mark Carney’s…
Paramount has officially completed its $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, but the company's announcement of the deal closing did not contain a single mention of…
Umar Kremlev said US President Donald Trump’s son had repaid the money the Russian tycoon had spent on post-wedding celebrations he hosted as a gift.
President Donald Trump signaled that his appetite to ban exports of US diesel has cooled given the risk of unintended price spikes, and one of his top deputies indicated Europe…
Democratic governor sharply critical of Donald Trump for not passing comprehensive federal AI regulations Governor Gavin Newsom signed laws Wednesday aimed at protecting…
The death of a worker from a Russian lab that researches plague has prompted questions about the disease.
