Yeo Jin Goo Accepts Offer To Play Patriotic Martyr In New Democratic Movement Film

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Actor Yeo Jin Goo has been confirmed to star in the new film “1987” along with actors Kim Yun Seok, Ha Jung Woo, Kang Dong Won, and Kim Tae Ri. “1987” is directed by Jang Joon Hwan, who also directed Yeo Jin Goo’s past film “Hwayi: A Monster Boy.” The upcoming film focuses on the year […]

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I'm so excited for Yeo Jingoo this year. He has Circle, The Proxy Soldiers and now he's cast for 1987! Yay to Hwayi reunion with Director Jang Joonhwan and his dad in the movie Kim Yoonsuk!!!

I read a bit on Park Jongchul and what they did to him was so horrible  

http://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/article/Article.aspx?aid=3028599

Oh Yeon-sang was a physician from the Chung-Ang University Hospital when he first laid eyes upon Jong-chul in a tiny interrogation room at the police’s infamous anticommunism bureau. The only thought that ran through his mind was to save him, a dying patient who was barely wearing any clothes in the blistering cold after police officers had questioned him and left the room.

Jong-chul was lying on the ground, motionless. Oh rushed to perform CPR, but after half an hour, it became evident he would never come round.

“I told the officers he seemed to have died,” recalls Oh, 60. “They rolled his body in a blanket and shoved it in an elevator.”

The following day, on Jan. 15, 1987, throngs of reporters rushed into Oh’s office with questions about Jong-chul’s death. Oh only said what he had witnessed: “There was a tub. I heard bubbles pop inside his lungs. The floor was wet.” The doctor refrained from saying anything more, but reporters sensed something had gone terribly wrong. 

After that day, Oh was grilled for nearly 20 hours by police and prosecutors. For a week, he had to hide in a hotel on the outskirts of Seoul, fearful authorities might come after him.

“I never intended to speak out for democracy,” says Oh. “As a doctor, it was my duty to talk candidly about my patient’s conditions.”

Oh managed to work at Chung-Ang University Hospital until 2009 before opening his own private hospital in Dongjak District, southwestern Seoul.

The first person in the local media to shed light on Jong-chul’s death was Shin Sung-ho, 61, a professor of journalism and mass communication at Sungkyunkwan University in Seoul, who at that time was a JoongAng Ilbo reporter on the Social Affairs Desk. 

“I knew I could be in danger,” says Shin, “but the more I dug in, the more faith I had in the story.” Shin recalls having to sleep in a motel near his office to evade authorities. 

It was Lee Hong-kyu, 80, then a prosecutor, who leaked the news about Jong-chul to Shin. He was ordered by higher-ranked officials never to release the news, and yet he had. 

“I couldn’t turn a blind eye,” confides Lee. “When I saw Shin, I instantly lost control and told him what had happened.”

Hwang Jeok-jun, 70, a former forensic officer who autopsied Jong-chul, was pressured by police to write on official documents that he had died of a “shock in the heart.” Hwang refused to comply and concluded he “suffocated due to neck pressure.”

Hwang now works as a medical jurisprudence professor at Korea University. 

“When I was a med student,” he says, “I was told never to compromise with injustice. Back then, it was nothing more or less than me following my professional code of ethics.”

Choi Hwan, 74, a former prosecutor who now works as a lawyer, remembers being told by police to immediately cremate Jong-chul so that they could hide the evidence that he was tortured by them. Choi refused, creating time for the truth to come out.

“I could instantly tell he was tortured,” recalls Choi. “And I knew by instinct that I had to do whatever it took to get to the bottom of it.”