Introduction

Train to Busan is an award winning 2016 South Korean action horror film directed by Yeong Sang-ho. The film illustrates the start of a zombie apocalypse caused by an unknown virus as it breaks out across the entire South Korea country. Government fails to protect the safety of the country with a special focus on the passengers trapped in the high speed KTX train going from Seoul to Busan – featuring a group of passengers that varies in age and socio-economic as they fight for survival among each other and against their own selfishness. Relating to real world problems that has happened in the past – black death, presently – COVID-19, this film illustrates the chaos as a new plague with no known cure slowly takes over the world. I plan to shape my exhibit around how the spread of a deadly infection caused by an unknown virus ignites an uproar, fear, and superior dominance within individuals and society. My exhibit will be used to analyze how the terror and distress that the zombie apocalypse has caused and affected the country socially and politically relates to the current global pandemic issues in our real-life world.