Whistle Blower (2014)
- Original title
- 제보자
- Directed by
- Im Sun-rye
- Genre
- drama film
- Country
- South Korea
- Runtime
- 1h 54m
- Rated
- G
- Rating
- 7.2 of 10 from 27 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A researcher exposes fraud in a high-profile scientific lab. The film follows his difficult decision to go public and the fallout that follows.
tenseseriousemotionalurgentthought-provokingrestrainedsuspensefulhuman-focused
What happens
Whistle Blower (Korean: 제보자; RR: Jeboja) is a 2014 South Korean film directed by Yim Soon-rye. Though fictionalized, the film is based on real-life scientist Hwang Woo-suk, who was at the center of one of the largest investigations of scientific fraud, named the Hwang affair, in recent memory. Hwang, then a professor of biotechnology at Seoul National University (SNU), gained international renown in 2004 after claiming that he had successfully carried out experiments cloning human embryonic stem cells. In 2005, an anonymous tip from whistleblower Ryu Young-joon, a former researcher at Hwang's lab, led to MBC program Producer's Note uncovering Hwang's ethical violations and fabricated data, which was confirmed by an SNU investigative panel in 2006. Hwang's research was discredited and in 2009, a South Korean court convicted him of embezzlement and bioethical violations. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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