Min-jung fends off Captain Seo and saves Jung-seok from Unit 631. Chul-min saves Jung-seok from being bitten, then Sergeant Hwang kills Chul-min. While holding Private Kim at gunpoint, Jung-seok learns that Chul-min is alive, and interrupts a survival game to rescue him, killing several zombies and Unit 631 soldiers. The following evening, Jung-seok and Min-jung attempt to steal the truck. She decides to steal the truck to escape with her family and Jung-seok. Meanwhile, Min-jung learns from Jung-seok that the mobsters' ship is at Incheon Port waiting to extract him and the truck.
Private Kim discovers the truck's cash and informs Captain Seo, who contacts the mobsters and hatches a plan to escape the peninsula with the truck, keeping the plan a secret from the rest of Unit 631. They imprison Chul-min, forcing him to take part in two-minute survival games between unarmed prisoners and the zombies. Meanwhile, Unit 631 take the truck to their compound. Jung-Seok realizes Min-jung and Yu-jin were part of the family he refused to help four years ago. They return to their hideout, joining their grandfather Elder Kim and mother Min-jung. Jung-seok is rescued by two sisters in a car: Joon, a skilled driver who is adept at manipulating and killing zombies, and young Yu-jin. The other members of the team are killed, one due to the crash, and one by Unit 631 leader Sergeant Hwang. Jung-seok is thrown out of the truck while Chul-min hides in it. On the way back to Incheon Port, the team is ambushed by a rogue militia, Unit 631, which uses light to attract more zombies, leading to the team crashing their vehicles. Jung-seok shoots several, and the team escapes. The team fends off and kills the zombie truck driver, making noises that attract more zombies. The team arrives at the peninsula at night by boat and finds the truck.
Other nations including the United States and NATO contain the outbreak by quarantining South Korea.įour years later in Hong Kong, a guilt-ridden Jung-seok and Chul-min are recruited by Chinese mobsters for a mission with two other Koreans to return to South Korea and retrieve a truck containing US$20 million if successful, they will supposedly receive half of the money. Jung-seok stops his brother-in-law Chul-min from entering as armed soldiers arrive. Jung-seok's sister refuses to leave Dong-hwan, so Jung-seok closes off the cabin while zombies bite her. Jung-seok's family board a ship where an infected man turns into a zombie and infects several people in a cabin, including Jung-seok's nephew Dong-hwan. On the way, he encounters a couple with a young daughter, but he refuses their pleas for help as the man is bleeding. Korea Marine Captain Jung-seok drives his family members to a ship. It has grossed $42.7 million worldwide on a $16 million budget, but received generally mixed reviews from critics, who found it inferior to the first film.Ī zombie outbreak occurs in South Korea, where the government is overwhelmed in a day. Peninsula was chosen to premiere in the 2020 Cannes Film Festival, which was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and simply released theatrically in South Korea on 15 July 2020, while also being shown in the 25th Busan International Film Festival on 21 October 2020. The film stars an ensemble cast featuring Gang Dong-won and Lee Jung-hyun.
It is a standalone sequel to the 2016 film Train to Busan and follows a former soldier who is sent along with a team to retrieve a truck full of money from the wastelands of the Korean peninsula now inhabited by zombies, rogue militia, and a family. Peninsula ( Korean: 반도 Hanja: 半島 RR: Bando marketed internationally as Train to Busan Presents: Peninsula) is a 2020 South Korean action horror heist film co-written and directed by Yeon Sang-ho.