KTX Conductor

The KTX Conductor is a supporting character in the 2016 apocalyptic and horror film Train to Busan.

History
He is the driver who brings the protagonists to Busan. We see him for the first time at the station, getting on the train and reading files. At the start of the apocalypse, he seems to misunderstand what is happening on the train.

He announces to the passengers that the train will not stop and decides to go to Daejeon station, where the army will come to protect them. As he stops the train at this station, he chats with Ki-chul, a steward who shows him the zombified passengers in one of the cars. Yong-suk, a wealthy businessman, shows up and offers to detach the locomotive to go to Busan, a place not yet infected. Unfortunately, this is impossible and the driver decides to pick up all the passengers who have left the train and take them to Busan.

However, people see the infected army too and are forced to flee in reverse. Ki-chul, manipulated by Yong-suk, tells the conductor that he can start the train, leaving most of the protagonists behind.

At the controls of the KTX, the conductor asks the switch station if it is possible to go to Busan. The route to this destination is then retraced by the switch station. He officially announces to passengers that the train is going to Busan. Yong-suk, impatient, asks him to go with full speed before any problem.

Later in the film, the track on which the train is located is blocked by containers overturned on it. The conductor announces to the last survivors that he is going to start a train on another free track and wishes them good luck.

Having stopped at East Daegu Station, he manages to find a nearby locomotive and starts it. We see him for the next time, in the new locomotive, contemplating the disaster and notices Yong-suk running, chased by the zombies. The conductor tells him to hurry, but Yong-suk twists his ankle and falls, unable to get up.

The driver leaves the train to help him and Yong-suk throws him on the zombies. As the conductor begs him to help him, Yong-suk abandons him cowardly and runs towards the locomotive still moving towards Busan.

Activating the train was his last heroic action since the last protagonists boarded and were able to go to Busan to be saved by soldiers.

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