![]() ![]() The characterization by Song Kang-ho (Park) and Kim Sang-kyung (Seo) was hauntingly good. ![]() Seriously, I just finished it only minutes ago and I'm still shaking. I had an inkling that it would be amazing, since I love Bong Joon-ho's other works (The Host is a personal favorite of mine), but I had no idea that my entire essence as an actor and viewer would be impacted. “I want to clear my false accusation, and I want my honor back,” he said earlier this year.This one's been on my watch list for years and I'm ashamed it took me this long to get around to watching it. Yoon has previously said that he feels frustrated about all the years of injustice and wants to live the rest of his life as an innocent man. Yoon said Monday that he needed time to digest what had happened in court. “We bow down and apologize to all victims of the crimes of Lee Chun-jae, families of victims, and victims of police investigations, including Yoon,” Bae said Thursday, noting others had suffered from “police malpractice” during the initial Hwaseong investigation.īae also said authorities concluded Lee was responsible for all 10 killings that took place between 19 in Hwaseong. An official document noted that a witness was present during Yoon’s confession – but Bae said that was not the case. In July, Gyeonggi Nambu Provicial Police Agency chief Bae Yong-ju admitted that during the initial investigation in 1989, police assaulted Yoon and coerced him into making a false confession. Now police have apologized for forcing him to make a false confession Yonhap News/Newscomģ0 years ago, he was wrongfully convicted of murder. In this July 1987 file photo, investigators examine the scene in Hwaseong, south of Seoul. Lee cannot be prosecuted for the Hwaseong cases as the statute of limitations on those has expired. Lee has been in prison since 1994, where he is serving a life sentence for the rape and murder of his sister-in-law that year, according to Daejeon court officials and South Korea’s Justice Ministry. “I came and testified and described the crimes in hopes for (the victims and their families) to find some comfort when the truth is revealed. I’d like to apologize to all those people,” he said. “I heard that many people had been investigated and wrongfully suffered. Lee apologized to the family members of his victims – and Yoon. “I heard from someone that a person with a disability was arrested but I didn’t know which one he was arrested for as I committed many (crimes).” “It was an impulsive act,” he said in court. Lee said he didn’t have a reason for killing the 13-year-old and showed no emotion as he described how he killed her. I bumped into detectives all the time but they always asked me about people around me.” “Crimes happened around me and I didn’t try hard to hide things so I thought I would get caught easily. “I still don’t understand (why I wasn’t a suspect),” he said. But police questioned him for not having his ID card on him – and he was set free soon after. Yoon, who had for years protested his innocence, was granted a retrial, at which his lawyers are attempting to overturn his conviction.Īt Yoon’s retrial Monday, which is ongoing, Lee said that when he was questioned by police at the time of the killings, he had a watch of one of the victims on his person. Then last year, police launched a probe after new DNA evidence connected Lee with at least some of the killings. That murder is one of 10 killings that took place between 19, which are known as the Hwaseong murders after the area in which they took place.įor decades, the nine other murders went unsolved, and the cases were revisited in “Memories of Murder,” a 2003 film by “Parasite” director Bong Joon Ho. ![]() Then someone else confessed to the same crime ![]()
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