and a little more substantial, check out the korean historical thriller the man standing next in which director woo min—ho revisits the events leading up to the assassination of president park in 1979. lee byung—hun is kim, director of the kcia, whose predecessor is in the us spilling secrets. sent to silence his friend and retrieve the manuscript for his tell—all memoir, kim finds himself in the middle of a labyrinthine web of intrigue in which nobody is to be trusted and everybody is a potential threat. all this plays out against a backdrop of mounting protest in korea against park's dictatorial regime and pressure from the us to do something about the president.