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Before he directed 2019’s Best Picture winner
Parasite, Bong Joon-ho was already a pioneer filmmaker at the forefront of Korea’s New Wave. Films like
Okja,
Snowpiercer, and
The Host garnered him international acclaim for his biting social commentary, acerbic wit, and deft tonal twists. Bong’s 2003’s procedural murder thriller
Memories of Murder is commonly touted as not only one of his best, but one of the greatest Korean films ever produced.
Based on a true story from the 1980s,
Memories of Murder finds two detectives struggling to capture the culprit behind a then-unprecedented series of murders of women in the agrarian town of Hwaseong. As the stress of the case wears on and the bodies pile up, Seo (Kim Sang-kyung) and Park (Song Kang-ho) are pushed to their brink by a desperate search to bring the killer to justice.
Posted : 2021-01-28 15:08
Updated : 2021-01-28 18:35
Yoon Seong-yeo leaves the Suwon District Court in Suwon, Gyeonggi Province, in this Dec. 17, 2020 photo, after he was acquitted of a 1988 murder charge, of which he was falsely accused, and for which he served nearly 20 years behind bars. Yonhap
By Bahk Eun-ji
Yoon Seong-yeo, 54, who was acquitted recently in a retrial after serving 20 years behind bars after having been wrongfully accused of murdering a 13-year-old girl, filed a suit seeking 2.5 billion won ($2.25 million) in compensation for financial losses suffered due to imprisonment, according to the Suwon District Court, Thursday.
Korea s criminal law requires the government to compensate financial damages suffered by people who have been unjustly detained or who have spent money on trials over false accusations. Victims of such injustice can claim up to five times the amount of income they would have made per day if the person had not been in jail.