Tidal Wave

Busan. Summer. A dropped ice cream. Traumatized by a past fishing accident, one man tries to protect a new love. Elsewhere, a geologist warns everyone of a coming mega-tsunami, but nobody believes him. South Korean disaster movies always deliver.

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JK Youn directed Tidal Wave in 2009. See JK Youn's full filmography, where to start with JK Youn, or where to go after you've seen everything by JK Youn.

Tidal Wave was released in 2009 (KO original-language production), with a runtime of 120 minutes.