The Case of Itaewon Homicide (2009)

Original title

이태원 살인사건

Directed by

Hong Ki-seon

Genre

drama film, crime film

Country

South Korea

Runtime

1h 40m

Rated

15

Rating

6.4 of 10 from 28 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two American teenagers are suspected of murdering a college student in a Burger King in Seoul. The film follows the investigation and trials as both suspects blame each other but neither is fully convicted.

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What happens

The Case of Itaewon Homicide (Korean: 이태원 살인사건) is a 2009 South Korean crime thriller film, based on the true story of the Itaewon murder case, which shocked Korea when Hongik college student Cho Jung-Pil was found dead at an Itaewon Burger King in 1997. The murder was investigated in 1997 by CID Agents J. Choi, D. Zeliff, T. Barnes and B. Crow. Two troubled U.S. teenagers—Arthur Patterson (the son of a former U.S. Army officer and Korean mother) and Edward Lee—became suspects and were convicted. Patterson was released a year later in a special amnesty and Lee was freed a year after that due to lack of evidence. The case never resulted in further convictions. [1] It stars Jang Keun-suk as Arthur Patterson and Jung Jin-young as his lawyer. Song Joong-ki played the victim. The film had 531,068 admissions in South Korea nationwide. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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