The Korea Times
“It has been 10 years since I started making commercial films,” director Yeon Sang-ho said. “During that time, I spent years collaborating within commercial cinema and streaming platforms. While shooting 'The Ugly' last year, I began longing to work within a new system. For the next 10 years, I want to work in a different way from the past 10 years. I have a strong desire to try more experimental things.” Yeon, who helped expand Korean zombie cinema with "Train to Busan" and "Peninsula," has returned with his third zombie thriller, "Colony." The film follows survivors trapped inside a building sealed off after the outbreak of a mysterious infection. Its central idea is the "evolved zombie," a concept Yeon connects to questions about the collapse of individuality in the age of artificial intelligence. In a recent interview at a Seoul cafe, Yeon said he focused on expressing "collective intelligence, evolution and the harm they can cause" in an intuitive way. "I thought about how far humans and groups can evolve," he said. Since opening May 21, "Colony" has sold more than 3.1 millio
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