Detailed introduction to the eight unsolved unsolved cases in Korea (2)

Eight Unsolved Mysteries in South Korea: The Itaewon Murders

The story was chosen in the 1990s when the U.S. military was still stationed. It happened in a burger shop in Itaewon, involving two Americans. It is adapted from the true events of a Korean teenager who killed a Korean college student for fun.

The real story of "Itaewon Murder Incident"

The movie "Itaewon Murder Incident" adapted from a true story has attracted attention from all walks of life. After all, this incident once caused a sensation. The murder case is still a mystery to this day. In 1994, in the toilet of a burger restaurant in Itaewon, Seoul, South Korea, a family member of the US military stationed in South Korea and a Korean-American teamed up to attack South Korea with a murder weapon in Itaewon. Zhao Zongbi, a college student, died of his injuries. At that time, both suspects in this case were acquitted due to insufficient evidence, causing public outrage.

In order to reconstruct the case at that time, Director Hong Qishan spent four years to find more than 40 reporters who were following the murder incident for interviews, and presented the causes and consequences of the specific incident to the audience. Although there is still no real answer to this incident in history, in order to bring the audience back to the scene at that time, the director and actors spent a lot of effort to imitate it. It is reported that when it was submitted to the Korean Image Registration Review Association, it was not approved because the footage was too bloody and would cause public unrest. The trailer was revised 4 times before it was confirmed to be released.

Eight Unsolved Unsolved Case Movies in Korea: That Guy’s Voice

The prototype of the story? Lee Hyung-ho? was abducted in a park near his home on January 29, 1991, and his parents were threatened by phone calls. After 44 days of extortion, the gangsters also received a ransom of 200 million, but Lee Hyung-ho's body was found in a sewer of the Han River. Police investigation results showed that Lee Hyung-ho died on the second day after being abducted. He was only 9 years old at the time.

The real story of "That Guy's Voice"

This is the abduction incident of Lee Hyung-ho that shocked the whole of South Korea in 1991.

The child’s parents were frightened and quickly prepared a ransom. However, the kidnappers were suspicious and repeatedly raised the conditions, demanding a ransom of 100 million. In the end, the couple had no choice but to call the police. The police deployed 150,000 manpower to investigate, but because this was a high-intelligence crime, the kidnappers could not even find out the criminal's appearance. All the clues were his voice, which was calm, neither loud nor rough, and his speech was clear and unhurried. Not slow, emotionless, and a bit cold.

44 days later, Lee Hyung Ho’s body was found on the bank of the Han River. In the video, it was raining the day the body was found. The police detective looked at the sky and said, it was Yunho (pseudonym) who was crying. According to forensic identification, Lee Hyung Ho died at the hands of the kidnappers the day after he was kidnapped. However, the kidnappers tortured his parents for a month and demanded 200 million won.

The kidnapper’s lines in the movie are almost the same as those in the original case. The actor Jiang Dongyuan did not show his face at all, but he imitated the kidnapper’s tone to the extreme. The leading actor Seol Kyung-gu, Song Kang-ho (starring in "Memories of Murder") and Choi Min-sik (starring in "Oldboy") are known as the Korean acting troika, and their acting skills are amazing. Don't miss it if you want to see Children's Shoes, Xue's performance is incredible.

Eight Unsolved Unsolved Cases in Korea: Sowon

In December 2008, Cho Doo-soon brutally sexually assaulted an 8-year-old elementary school girl in Danwon District, Ansan City, South Korea, and caused The story of his lifelong disability was truly adapted. The Supreme Court sentenced the rapist Zhao Douchun to 12 years in prison.

The real story of "Sowon"

This film is based on the Zhao Dou-soon incident, a shocking child sexual assault and violence incident in South Korea in 2008.

The Supreme Court sentenced the rapist Cho Doo-soon to 12 years in prison because he brutally sexually assaulted an 8-year-old elementary school girl in Danwon-won, Ansan City, South Korea in December 2008, leaving her with a lifelong disability.

The verdict aroused strong repercussions in society, with the public accusing the sentence of being too merciful, ultimately leading Congress to raise the sentencing standards for child sexual assault crimes. The case of Cho Doo-soon, who sexually assaulted an 8-year-old elementary school girl, caused an uproar in the Korean legal community.

The first instance sentenced Zhao Douchun to 12 years in prison, but at the same time, the punishment was reduced because Zhao Douchun was mentally and physically weak due to drunkenness. The Korean people criticized the court, and the procuratorate also caused controversy due to its mistakes in the application of the law and its abandonment of protest during the prosecution. The siege of public opinion. When the courts and prosecutors conducted state affairs inspections, South Korean congressmen also investigated the problems that existed in the handling of the incident by the courts and prosecutors.

Since then, the court has begun to formulate an improvement plan for the trial of sex crime cases and discussed strengthening sentencing standards for child sex crimes. The procuratorate even convened a procuratorial committee and decided to warn the chief prosecutor on matters he should pay attention to during the investigation and prosecution process. However, the Korean Bar Association's decision to investigate the truth and file a compensation lawsuit against the state on behalf of the victim has further continued the controversy over the incident. The Ministry of Justice of South Korea proposed that the statute of limitations for sexual violence crimes against children should last until the victim reaches adulthood, and plans to amend relevant laws to expand the upper limit of fixed-term imprisonment for sexual violence crimes and other countermeasures.

Eight Unsolved Mysteries in South Korea: Namyeong-dong

The film is adapted from the life story of Kim Geun-tae, a representative figure of South Korea’s democratization movement and former adviser to the Unification Democratic Party.

The real events of "Namying-dong 1985"

The Korean reality-themed movie "Namying-dong 1985" uses violent nudity just to restore that barbaric era. Another reality-themed masterpiece "Nanyingdong 1985" directed by "Broken Arrow" director Zheng Jiyong is scheduled to be officially released in South Korea on November 22. Because the film contains a lot of violent scenes, how it will be ultimately rated has always attracted much attention. Recently, the Korean Film Ratings Committee (Film Classification Committee) finally rated "Namyeongdong 1985" as a "15 banned". The reason given was "I hope more people will know the truth about the tragedy of 27 years ago."

In South Korea under the background of the military dictatorship in 1985, a 22-day torture operation was launched in the Nanyingdong cell, which was synonymous with terror. This was the beginning of South Korea's democratization movement. After the representative figure Kim Geun-tae (title in the film: Kim Jong-tae) was arrested on suspicion of violating the National Security Law and the Assembly and Demonstration Law, he was tortured by torture technician Lee Geun-an (title in the film: Lee Dou-young) and almost died. "Namyeong-dong 1985" is a film adapted from the autobiographical notes of the late Congressman Kim Geun-tae. It is also another realistic masterpiece directed by Korean director Jung Ji-young after "Broken Arrow".

Although this film contains a lot of nudity and violent scenes, when it was initially shown to the audience in the main screening section of the just-concluded 17th Busan Film Festival, in order to allow more audiences to see the film, the film The organizers of the film festival have set the film festival’s release level at “15+”, and how the film’s official release level will be determined in the future has always attracted much attention. The explanation given by the Film and Television Committee for this final classification is that the body nudity scenes in the film are not restricted, and the cruel torture plot is also a restoration of reality based on facts. The film and television committee also stated that due to the 15-level ban, more people who are unclear about that period of history will once again witness the tragic scene 27 years ago.

Through the story of Kim Geun-tae, this film truly represents to the audience the trampled souls and the characters who were reduced to monster-like existence in that "barbaric era".