Tunnel (Korean: 터널) is a 2016 South Korean survival drama film written and directed by Kim Seong-hun, starring Ha Jung-woo in the lead role. The film revolves around a car salesman who gets trapped when a poorly constructed tunnel collapses, and deals with his survival inside the tunnel with the advice of the rescue team head. It was released in South Korea on 10 August 2016.
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Lee Jung-soo is an automobile salesperson heading back for Seoul, when the recently opened Hado Tunnel collapses over him, trapping him inside the car underneath the rubble of concrete and steel. With little reception, Jung-soo manages to contact emergency services for help, as news of the tunnel collapse reaches his wife, Se-hyun. As rescuers set up camp outside the relatively intact portal of the tunnel, a local news crew tries to contact Jung-soo for a special interview, but is interrupted by the rescue chief, Kim Dae-kyung, who berates them for their disregard of Jung-soo's life for their ratings.
Under the advice of Dae-kyung, Jung-soo must conserve the phone's battery to remain in contact and to ration two water bottles and a birthday cake originally meant for his daughter Su-jin, in order to stay alive long enough while Dae-kyung inspects the darkened tunnel only to realize they were close to Jung-soo. However, the tunnel began to cave in further, narrowly burying him and his colleague as they manage to escape. The vibrations of the collapse leads Jung-soo to spot the #3 on the ventilation fan; Dae-kyung uses this as a reference point to devise a plan for workers to both excavate through the tunnel and drill above Jung-soo to rescue him.