The Terror Live

Yoon Young-hwa, once a prominent television news anchor, now hosts a radio programme after a career setback. During a broadcast, a caller threatens to blow up the Mapo Bridge, which stands within sight of the station. Yoon treats the warning as a hoax and tells the caller to go ahead, only for the bridge to be destroyed moments later. Seeing a chance to revive his career, he pursues an exclusive interview with the man responsible, who turns out to be a construction worker demanding an apology for colleagues killed on the job. The government refuses his demands, and as Yoon tries to mediate, he realises a bomb has been planted near him.

The film is a Korean thriller written and directed by Kim Byung-woo, marking the first feature in his directing career ahead of Take Point, Omniscient Reader: The Prophecy and The Great Flood. Ha Jung-woo plays the anchor, with Kim Dae-myung voicing the caller and Lee Kyung-young, Jeon Hye-jin, David Lee and Kim So-jin among the cast of twenty-four. Released in July 2013, it runs 97 minutes and took about 36 million dollars worldwide. On IMDb it holds 7.1 out of 10 from roughly 8,800 votes, and on TMDB 7.2 from around 286 votes, showing a modest but solid response across both audiences.