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The True Story Behind Memories of Murder | South Korea's Most Infamous Serial Killer · Midnight Movie Theatre

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Speaker 1: They were going to be taking a look at Memories
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Speaker 1: of Murder, a movie that came out in two thousand
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Speaker 1: and three that's based on the infamous Hai Song serial murders,
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Speaker 1: south Korea's first widely recognized serial murder case. The crimes
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Speaker 1: occurred between nineteen eighty six and nineteen ninety one in
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Speaker 1: the rural city of Hawaisan. When Bong Jung ho made
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Speaker 1: the film, the case was still unsolved and would go
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Speaker 1: unsolved until twenty nineteen. This investigation became one of the
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Speaker 1: largest in South Korean history. More than two million police
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Speaker 1: work days were spent on the case. Approximately twenty one
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Speaker 1: thousand suspects were interviewed and investigated. Around one hundred and
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Speaker 1: eighty thousand fingerprints were examined. Hundreds of DNA samples were
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Speaker 1: collected as forensic science advanced that would be very important
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Speaker 1: to this case later on, as it is to many
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Speaker 1: other cases. Despite this enormous effort, Poleete reportedly arrested and
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Speaker 1: interrogated the wrong people. Torture enforced confessions depicted in the
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Speaker 1: film were unfortunately common investigation practices in South Korea during
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Speaker 1: the nineteen eighties military dictatorship. One of the most tragic
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Speaker 1: aspects of the case involved Unsung Yal. Police coerced him
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Speaker 1: into confessing to one of the murders despite physical evidence
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Speaker 1: suggesting he could not have committed it. He spent about
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Speaker 1: twenty years in prison before DNA evidence proved he was
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Speaker 1: innocent and his conviction was ultimately overturned. During the review,
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Speaker 1: I'm going to talk about what the movie gets right
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Speaker 1: as far as what was actually going on in the case,
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Speaker 1: and kind of comparing contrast those things to the real
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Speaker 1: life events. If you want to learn more about the case,
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Speaker 1: check out the show Korean True Crime. That's where I
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Speaker 1: got most of my information about the actual events, and
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Speaker 1: I'm going to try to remember to link that in
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Speaker 1: the description below, So check that out. Really great podcast.
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Speaker 1: You might recognize the director from this movie, Bong jing Ho,
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Speaker 1: as the director of a Parasite that was a big hit.
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Speaker 1: One of the things about this movie that's gonna get
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Speaker 1: you right away is the incredible scenery. So right away
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Speaker 1: the movie starts out, it's incredibly scenic. We're out in
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Speaker 1: this little field. Detective Park is investigating a rape murder,
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Speaker 1: so he just goes out there. He checks in this
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Speaker 1: little ditch, and you just see this like a woman's
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Speaker 1: feet sticking out of underneath this like concrete ditch cover.
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Speaker 1: So he's shining his light in there and checking out
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Speaker 1: her dead body and stuff like that. I didn't know
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Speaker 1: anything about the actual case going into this, so right
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Speaker 1: away I'm taking Detective Park like incredibly serious. I'm like,
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Speaker 1: this guy's probably like the badass main detective that knows
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Speaker 1: what's going on, and he's gonna fucking catch this guy
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Speaker 1: and stuff. You know. But as you pretty early on
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Speaker 1: in the movie, it shows that these these cops and
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Speaker 1: their investigations are pretty fucking shitty. Like it just seems
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Speaker 1: like everyone's touching stuff. Everyone's like walking all over the place.
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Speaker 1: They don't like, there's kids surrounding the crime scene and
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Speaker 1: stuff like that that they can't really control. They're like
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Speaker 1: trying to shoot them off, and the kids just aren't
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Speaker 1: listening and shit like that, and it just seems like
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Speaker 1: a little chaotic. And this is really made apparent because
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Speaker 1: Park does find a footprint nearby the scene and he's like,
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Speaker 1: oh shit, you know, everybody, you know, stay away from
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Speaker 1: the footprint. We need to mark this thing off and
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Speaker 1: you know, get some pictures of it or something, and
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Speaker 1: before they can do anything with a tractor just drives
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Speaker 1: through the crime scene and runs over the footprint, and
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Speaker 1: he's like, fuck, there goes. We blew it again. So
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Speaker 1: basically the whole investigation right away seems like a big
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Speaker 1: shit show. So they're back at the police station gathering
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Speaker 1: their suspects. Park believes that if he just stares at
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Speaker 1: the pictures of the suspects long enough, that he'll be
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Speaker 1: able to tell who the killer is. He has this
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Speaker 1: idea that he has the ability to tell whether or
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Speaker 1: not someone's lying, I guess, or like he can see
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Speaker 1: into their true character if he looks into their eyes
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Speaker 1: hard enough. I don't know. It seems really silly, but
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Speaker 1: the actor does such a great job with it that
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Speaker 1: you kind of believe. Like at first I believed him.
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Speaker 1: I was like, oh damn, Maybe that's like his reputation
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Speaker 1: or something. Maybe, I mean, although it doesn't seem realistic
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Speaker 1: at all, maybe it's just something that he's known for.
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Speaker 1: But I think it's something more that he's known for
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Speaker 1: within himself, Like he believes this about himself. I don't
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Speaker 1: know if anyone else really buys this, or because the
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Speaker 1: chief comes up to him and starts talking to him
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Speaker 1: about like what he's doing, and he's like, he explains,
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Speaker 1: he explains about his golden stare that he has, and
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Speaker 1: the Chief's like, okay, those two guys over there, one
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Speaker 1: of them's a rapist, the other one is the victim's brother,
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Speaker 1: which one's the rapist, And you just kind of see
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Speaker 1: him staring over there for a long time, like I
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Speaker 1: don't think that he ever. You don't see his answer,
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Speaker 1: but it just makes you kind of realize that, like this,
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Speaker 1: this is kind of bullshit, like he doesn't really have
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Speaker 1: this ability. And right after this, we're introduced to Park's
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Speaker 1: wife or girl friend at the time. Maybe they're just banging.
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Speaker 1: I didn't know who she was, so I was kind
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Speaker 1: of like, I don't know what's going on here. Maybe
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Speaker 1: she's a hooker or something. They don't really like introduce
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Speaker 1: anybody in that sort of way, so just like, well,
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Speaker 1: he's fucking some lady. She starts doing like some healing
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Speaker 1: stuff on him. She's sort of like a nurse. I
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Speaker 1: think it almost seems like she provides healthcare services, but
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Speaker 1: like door to door or something like that. And while
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Speaker 1: while they're kind of going through all this, she tells
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Speaker 1: him that she heard that this mentally disabled kid was
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Speaker 1: seen following the rape murder victim around the night that
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Speaker 1: she was murdered, So she's like, maybe you should go
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Speaker 1: look at him. Maybe she'd go checking to him. He's
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Speaker 1: always like sneaking around her and stuff like that and
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Speaker 1: talking about how pretty she is or something. So right away,
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Speaker 1: this just cuts to Park interrogating this guy. I don't
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Speaker 1: know if this is like a grown man or a guy,
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Speaker 1: because I swear she kept calling him a kid, But
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Speaker 1: he looks like he's like thirty five years old, just
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Speaker 1: with like some he kind of looks like the Grimlin
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Speaker 1: from Grimlin's two that also has a like a brain
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Speaker 1: injury or something or a mental disorder. You know, it's
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Speaker 1: Grimlin I'm talking about from Grimlins too. But while while
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Speaker 1: Park's kind of interrogating this guy asking him questions, his
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Speaker 1: partner runs in and just does like a fucking lu
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Speaker 1: kang flying kick to this guy's head and knocks him
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Speaker 1: out of the chair. And I didn't know what was
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Speaker 1: going on here early on, like I said, without knowing
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Speaker 1: anything about the case, I was thinking that like a
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Speaker 1: lot of this stuff seemed kind of silly or like
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Speaker 1: over the top, this whole interrogation process is way more
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Speaker 1: extreme than the movie even what's on because basically right
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Speaker 1: away you see that they're coaching him and torturing him
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Speaker 1: to make him admit to the murder, Like they just
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Speaker 1: want to get a confession out of this guy, and
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Speaker 1: they don't really give a fuck if he's the killer
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Speaker 1: or not. They just want to get this shit over with.
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Speaker 1: So they're like they've got him stripped down to us undies,
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Speaker 1: he's sleep deprived, they're not giving him any food, and
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Speaker 1: they're just whooping his ass. And they don't show a
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Speaker 1: lot of that in the movie. I mean, you do
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Speaker 1: see them like doing torturing and stuff like that, But
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Speaker 1: when you get to the true case, the true events
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Speaker 1: of what actually happened, it was way worse than what
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Speaker 1: they show on the movie. Like they when I was
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Speaker 1: listening to that podcast and they were explaining how bad
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Speaker 1: some of this torture was. They described this like specific
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Speaker 1: guy who was known for torturing people in South Korea,
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Speaker 1: who just love to torture people, like he loved the
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Speaker 1: waterboard people. He loved to psychologically and physically torture them.
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Speaker 1: One thing that stuck with me that they mentioned was
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Speaker 1: that he would with his bare hands. Apparently this guy
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Speaker 1: was really strong. He would grab their knee caps and
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Speaker 1: like break them off or like separate them from their
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Speaker 1: knee you know what I mean. So, like just imagine
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Speaker 1: your knee cap and just grabbing it until it fucking
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Speaker 1: I guess dislocates. I don't know how that's even how's
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Speaker 1: that even possible? I mean, I guess it is, but
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Speaker 1: it just it just sounds so painful. So when I
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Speaker 1: was watching the movie, it was hard for me to understand,
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Speaker 1: like why would these people be coerced into confessing to
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Speaker 1: these like horrible crimes so easily. But after listening to
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Speaker 1: what was actually going on and how badly and severely
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Speaker 1: they were tortured, I was like, yeah, that makes sense.
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Speaker 1: They said that there were even instances where people committed
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Speaker 1: suicide after being tortured by this guy because they were tortured.
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Speaker 1: So so, after this first interrogation scene, we cut over
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Speaker 1: to a new character that's walking down the road during
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Speaker 1: the middle of the day, and this is a detective
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Speaker 1: from Soul. This is another real thing that happened in
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Speaker 1: the case. They brought in a detective from Soeul to
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Speaker 1: help investigate and this guy right away we don't know
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Speaker 1: who he is, but he runs up to this lady
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Speaker 1: and he's like asking her for directions. Park drives by
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Speaker 1: and sees this, so detective part just runs out of
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Speaker 1: the car and just sprints over to this fucking guy
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Speaker 1: and like jumps on his head. He like jump, he
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Speaker 1: like drop kicks his ass into the side of the road,
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Speaker 1: and this guy's just kind of like what the fuck
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Speaker 1: and the lady run, she gets she escapes and runs off,
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Speaker 1: and Park is just like wailing on this guy, just
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Speaker 1: whooping his ass. And then he finds out that it's
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Speaker 1: actually a detective that's going to be helping with the case,
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Speaker 1: and he's kind of like, my bad, dude, sorry about that.
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Speaker 1: And they have a pretty fun conversation in the car
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Speaker 1: where the detective from Seoul I think his name Sue,
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Speaker 1: is like is like, how is a detective so bad
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Speaker 1: at identifying a criminal? Or something like that, and it
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Speaker 1: is kind of like another thing that pokes at the
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Speaker 1: idea that Park can just look at people and know
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Speaker 1: if they're the raper or not or the killer. Park
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Speaker 1: does hit back with how is a detective so bad
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Speaker 1: at fighting? Basically because the guy was just getting this
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Speaker 1: ass pummeled, and it's like, well, you did drop kick
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Speaker 1: him in the head as you're opening attack. That's hilarious.
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Speaker 1: That's I feel like that happened several times in this
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Speaker 1: movie too, where like the opening attack or like during
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Speaker 1: the interrogations, people just get like flying kicked in the head,
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Speaker 1: and it was like, is that like a common move
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Speaker 1: in South Korea at the time? The number one offensive
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Speaker 1: I don't know, offensive attack is just a flying jump
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Speaker 1: kick to the dome. Maybe I don't I'm not, Honestly,
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Speaker 1: there's a lot of things I learned from this whole
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Speaker 1: story about South Korea that I didn't know. It sound
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Speaker 1: like a pretty crazy place during the nineteen eighties. And
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Speaker 1: shortly after this we see so the the new detective
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Speaker 1: Sue Park and his partner are the one that's always
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Speaker 1: beating the fuck out of everybody. They just like drag
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Speaker 1: the special Knees guy out to the woods with a
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Speaker 1: tape recorder and they just start digging a grave and
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Speaker 1: they're like, you better confess, bitch, or we're gonna throw
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Speaker 1: you in this grave and bury your ass alive. We're
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Speaker 1: gonna kill you, and stuff like that, and so they
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Speaker 1: record him confessing to the murder, and you can tell
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Speaker 1: right away this like catches Sue's attention where he's like
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Speaker 1: what He's like, I think he doesn't realize exactly what's
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Speaker 1: going on For a second, He's like, shit, did they
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Speaker 1: already catch the guy? Like he's admitting to it right now,
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Speaker 1: But soon enough, I think he's kind of like, oh,
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Speaker 1: this is bullshit. And when watching the movie, I couldn't
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Speaker 1: tell right away. I was like, I assumed it probably wasn't.
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Speaker 1: This guy just seemed too easy and like the movie
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Speaker 1: would be over in twenty minutes. But at the same time,
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Speaker 1: it's like, this is one of the moments where, not
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Speaker 1: knowing how bad the torture was, I was like, damn,
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Speaker 1: they just like kick this guy out of a chair
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Speaker 1: in his underwear, and I mean, I guess they are
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Speaker 1: threatening to kill him, but you think at this point
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Speaker 1: he would still be like, I'm not gonna to this crime,
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Speaker 1: Like I think you guys are going to have to
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Speaker 1: get a little bit more serious about killing me or
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Speaker 1: whatever before I go to prison for the rest of
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Speaker 1: my life. But they do arrest the guy anyway, and
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Speaker 1: they do a reenactment for the press that's another thing
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Speaker 1: where the local press was really like involved in this case,
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Speaker 1: at least in the movie. That was something that I
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Speaker 1: think was maybe a little less true in real life.
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Speaker 1: Like I'm sure they were reporting on this and covering
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Speaker 1: what the police were doing and stuff like that. I
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Speaker 1: don't know if there was this much pressure from the press,
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Speaker 1: That's something I'd have to go back and look into.
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Speaker 1: In the movie, it almost feels like this could possibly
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Speaker 1: be the reason why they're coming up with these false
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Speaker 1: confessions and why they're putting so much pressure on finding
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Speaker 1: this guy. I don't really remember if that was the
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Speaker 1: case in real life or not. I have to double
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Speaker 1: check that one. And while Park and his partner are
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Speaker 1: getting this whole like press release thing ready too, the
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Speaker 1: detective from Soul he kind of starts looking into the
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Speaker 1: details of the case more and realizes that this guy
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Speaker 1: couldn't have been the killer because he has webbed fingers
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Speaker 1: like his you know, the killer used these really intricate
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Speaker 1: knots to tie the victims up and stuff like that,
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Speaker 1: And basically he's just like, oh, this guy, There's no
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Speaker 1: way this guy did it. It would have been impossible.
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Speaker 1: But despite that, Park is determined to make sure that
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Speaker 1: this guy goes down for the crime. So he takes
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Speaker 1: his shoes and goes out to the crime scene and
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Speaker 1: plants evidence by putting his shoeprints there and then matching
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Speaker 1: them to his shoe that he just used to shove
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Speaker 1: into the mud. But despite all of his efforts to
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Speaker 1: get this guy arrested for the murder, they do have
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Speaker 1: to let him go. And when they go back to
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Speaker 1: the office and they're kind of like bickering over all
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Speaker 1: of this, Sue reveals that he thinks there's already been
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Speaker 1: a third victim that they just haven't found yet, and
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Speaker 1: it's a woman that's gone missing. Park is convinced that
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Speaker 1: she just moved a soul. But I think this is
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Speaker 1: when they bring up the point of most of the murders,
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Speaker 1: if not all of the murders are committed during a
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Speaker 1: rainy night, and this is something that was true to
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Speaker 1: the case, where if not all of the murders were
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Speaker 1: committed during or after rainfall, And I think this was
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Speaker 1: done to kind of help cover up any evidence that
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Speaker 1: would have been left behind as far as such as
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Speaker 1: footprints and fingerprints and whatnot. They do end up finding
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Speaker 1: this third victim, and it's a local lady that everyone
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Speaker 1: knows well. And most of these crimes were committed near farms,
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Speaker 1: like farms and fields and whatnot. The guy would usually
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Speaker 1: hide out in like a big pile of hay, like
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Speaker 1: a haystack or something, and then jump out and grab people.
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Speaker 1: He would hide in the fields and jump out at
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Speaker 1: the people and attack them very suddenly and catch them
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Speaker 1: off guard and just grab them and pull them down
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Speaker 1: and tie them up with their own clothes usually, and
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Speaker 1: then also strangle them with their own clothes. So pretty
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Speaker 1: like really brutal crimes that were going on in this
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Speaker 1: small town in South Korea. And we kind of see
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Speaker 1: that in this next scene where we cut over to
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Speaker 1: a lady that's going out in the rain to meet
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Speaker 1: up with a friend. She's just singing a song to
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Speaker 1: herself with an umbrella in a flashlight, and then she
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Speaker 1: hears someone whistling along with the song that she's seen,
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Speaker 1: and she's kind of like, what the fuck was that.
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Speaker 1: We see a little head peek out of the tall
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Speaker 1: grass from the field and then duck down before she
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Speaker 1: notices him. So she realizes what's happening, though with all
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Speaker 1: the news of the recent murders and just starts she
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Speaker 1: starts taking off running. The last thing we see as
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Speaker 1: a man that just kind of like runs out of
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Speaker 1: the field towards her, like in her flashlight, almost like
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Speaker 1: an all fours like he just like crawls out of
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Speaker 1: the grass and fucking grabs her. And from all the reports,
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Speaker 1: that sounds pretty accurate to what was actually going on there.
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Speaker 1: We see Inspector Sue at the crime scene. This time
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Speaker 1: he's doing things a little more thoroughly. He's blocking things
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Speaker 1: off a little quicker. He's asking, you know, for some
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Speaker 1: caution tape to be put up at least so people
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Speaker 1: know where not to go and stuff like that. And
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Speaker 1: once they collect all the evidence that they can, they're
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Speaker 1: back at the police station. Park brings up a point
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Speaker 1: that he thinks is very important and could lead to
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Speaker 1: the killer. He thinks that it could possibly be a
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Speaker 1: monk doing the crimes because he thinks that the kill
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Speaker 1: doesn't have any pubes. I don't know, I don't know why.
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Speaker 1: I guess because he said he assumed that they would
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Speaker 1: find more pubes on the victims, or pubes at all,
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Speaker 1: and I guess they haven't found any. But you know,
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Speaker 1: it could be the rain, or it could be the
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Speaker 1: person like you, I don't know, like wiping off the
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Speaker 1: victim or something like that. I don't know. No one
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Speaker 1: else takes it seriously. The chief of police just kind
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Speaker 1: of looks at him like, are you fucking joking me?
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Speaker 1: And then they just move on. The assistant Miss Kwan.
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Speaker 1: She puts together that each night that one of these
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Speaker 1: murders happens, there's a specific song that's requested on this
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Speaker 1: radio station that she listens to. So she's like, maybe
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Speaker 1: this has something to do with the murders. It's a
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Speaker 1: pretty big coincidence. Park just laughs at that, and the
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Speaker 1: rest of them they kind of realize that she might
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Speaker 1: be onto something, so they start talking to her more
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Speaker 1: about it, and they're like, yeah, let's let's get ahold
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Speaker 1: of the radio station and see what we can figure
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Speaker 1: out with this. And Park's like, I think I need
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Speaker 1: to go investigate the baldies. I feel like the chief
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Speaker 1: at this point is just like, do whatever the fuck
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Speaker 1: you want, but get the fuck out of my face
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Speaker 1: at this time in like whatever fucking year this is
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Speaker 1: nineteen eighty seven or whatever I said. Earlier, radio stations
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Speaker 1: are taking requests through postcards, so Sue is looking for
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Speaker 1: a postcard that's requesting this song to be played on
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Speaker 1: a rainy day so he can track down the person,
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Speaker 1: hopefully get an address or something. Park does go to
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Speaker 1: like some bathhouses and just like stares at people's dicks
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Speaker 1: too for a while, which is there is there are
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Speaker 1: some moments in this that just feel like kind of
16:31
Speaker 1: a dark comedy in a way, like this whole thing
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Speaker 1: where he's just like he's in the locker room and
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Speaker 1: he's changing, he's naked, and like this other guy next
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Speaker 1: to him is kind of changing but not facing him,
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Speaker 1: you know, and he's just like, hey, the guy turns
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Speaker 1: around and faces him naked, and he just looks at
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Speaker 1: his dick, and he's like, never mind, that's pretty good.
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Speaker 1: Park's a good detective, he means, what fucking dumb as
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Speaker 1: the hell? Though, And after this, his wife suggests maybe
16:57
Speaker 1: go talk to a shaman and ask the shaman where
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Speaker 1: the killer. And he does this, and she has him
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Speaker 1: go to a crime scene, gather mud and pour it
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Speaker 1: onto some paper and she says, this will reveal the
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Speaker 1: killer's face. This sounds very silly, but this was something
17:11
Speaker 1: that actually happened. I guess a psydekick from America called
17:16
Speaker 1: in and said that she knew that a specific guy
17:19
Speaker 1: was the killer. And I think he actually got like
17:22
Speaker 1: arrested and beaten, you know, interrogated and tortured and stuff
17:26
Speaker 1: like that because of it. And then I think the
17:29
Speaker 1: wife provided evidence of the guy that was being interrogated
17:33
Speaker 1: that it wasn't him, and she called back and said
17:37
Speaker 1: she's in on it too, or something like that. I
17:40
Speaker 1: can't remember the full story, but I was just like,
17:42
Speaker 1: this story is fucking insane. The real story behind these
17:45
Speaker 1: crimes is like a hundred times crazier than this movie is.
17:48
Speaker 1: The movie's really good, but anyway, so they're pouring mud
17:51
Speaker 1: on a fucking piece of paper because I think that's
17:53
Speaker 1: going to help them find the killer. And while this
17:55
Speaker 1: is going on, Sue starts walking towards the crime scene
17:58
Speaker 1: and they're seeing this from far away. This is like
18:00
Speaker 1: being done at night in secret, and they think he's
18:03
Speaker 1: the killer, so they hide and they watch him and
18:05
Speaker 1: he's just like smoking a cigarette and listening to the
18:08
Speaker 1: song that was requested each night. I can't remember what
18:10
Speaker 1: the song was called. While they're watching him from a
18:12
Speaker 1: hiding spot, another guy starts walking up with a flashlight,
18:16
Speaker 1: so Sue hides two so they don't know. Sue doesn't
18:19
Speaker 1: know that Park and his partner are there, and they're
18:21
Speaker 1: all hiding watching this new guy who's just some random dude.
18:25
Speaker 1: And this guy pulls women's underwear out of his pants,
18:28
Speaker 1: throw him down on the ground and just start jorking
18:30
Speaker 1: his hog on the hondies and they're just like, holy fuck,
18:33
Speaker 1: this is the fucking killer. We caught him. As easy
18:37
Speaker 1: as that. You just gotta wait around in a rice
18:39
Speaker 1: field at night, and eventually you'll fucking catch the guy.
18:42
Speaker 1: And so the three of them they'll bust out of
18:44
Speaker 1: their hiding places and they just start sprinting after the guy.
18:46
Speaker 1: They're like, hey, you know, put your hog in the air,
18:49
Speaker 1: you're under arrest. Quit jorking that. This leads to a
18:52
Speaker 1: great foot chasing where the three of them they're all
18:55
Speaker 1: just after this guy on foot. They keep having to
18:57
Speaker 1: run through these alleys and jump over fences and run
19:00
Speaker 1: through fucking bars and businesses and stuff like that. I
19:02
Speaker 1: love a great foot chase scene, and this one it
19:05
Speaker 1: lives up to the hive. This might be a top
19:08
Speaker 1: ten foot chase scene for me. I don't think it
19:10
Speaker 1: beats the foot chase scene in the movie Onngbach, though,
19:13
Speaker 1: that's got a great foot chas scene where the guy's
19:15
Speaker 1: just like front flipping over fucking fences and diving through
19:19
Speaker 1: little carts that people drive with their feet. Cannot beat
19:22
Speaker 1: the Onngbach foot chase scene. Anyway. They lose the guy
19:25
Speaker 1: in this like construction site thing. I think it's a factory,
19:28
Speaker 1: but it's basically like they're doing construction shit outside park
19:31
Speaker 1: sees the guy's underwear sticking out of his pants that
19:34
Speaker 1: was jerking it, and he's just like, fucking fucker, it's
19:38
Speaker 1: this guy. I mean, you know, he does this trick
19:39
Speaker 1: where he looks in his face hard as fucking He's
19:41
Speaker 1: just like, I know it's this guy just by looking
19:44
Speaker 1: at him. And really it's because he saw his underwear
19:47
Speaker 1: sticking out. The guy was wearing some weird fucking red underwear.
19:49
Speaker 1: I don't know. They look like they had like frills
19:51
Speaker 1: on him or some shit, like a macho man Randy
19:53
Speaker 1: Savage pair of underwear or something. Anyway, they arrest him,
19:56
Speaker 1: and they're just like, that's a bitch, we know you're
19:58
Speaker 1: the killer. They interrogate him and his wife and they
20:01
Speaker 1: start to find out that this guy's actually just a
20:03
Speaker 1: big ass pervert. They find like all sorts of porno
20:06
Speaker 1: magazines tucked away all over his house. Apparently just sneaks
20:10
Speaker 1: off and jacks off everywhere or something like that. His
20:12
Speaker 1: wife's really sick, so he's just constantly jacking off Park.
20:16
Speaker 1: Despite all this, Park thinks he's the fucking guy. So
20:19
Speaker 1: he just grabs his ass in a full nelson. His
20:22
Speaker 1: partner just starts, you know, throwing right and left, hooks
20:24
Speaker 1: to his ribcage constantly. All the questionable interrogation tactics begin. Immediately,
20:30
Speaker 1: they're just like, no, he's the fucking guy. I saw him,
20:32
Speaker 1: I saw his hog, I saw him joking it. I
20:34
Speaker 1: stared right into his hog with my own two eyes,
20:37
Speaker 1: and I know he's the fucking guy. Imagine if that's
20:39
Speaker 1: how Park decided who the killer was. He just like
20:41
Speaker 1: rips his pants off like hard, ast fucking just stares
20:44
Speaker 1: at his dick and he's just like fucking really looking
20:46
Speaker 1: at that thing, and he's just like not the guy,
20:49
Speaker 1: but actually I feel like most of the time in
20:51
Speaker 1: the movie, anytime he looks at somebody like that, he's
20:53
Speaker 1: just like, he's the guy. Let's start fucking waterboarding his ass.
20:57
Speaker 1: Let's start kicking his ass right now. Honestly, why else
21:00
Speaker 1: would you become a cop, unless unless you're not trying
21:02
Speaker 1: to fucking you know, do some kick ass interrogating like this,
21:06
Speaker 1: like just fucking dropping elbows on some naked guy in
21:09
Speaker 1: a basement. Somehow in the movie, we don't see all
21:12
Speaker 1: the tactics that are displayed. He gets this guy to
21:15
Speaker 1: confess to at least one of the crimes, and this
21:18
Speaker 1: suspect mentions the outhouse story. Basically, at one point in
21:21
Speaker 1: the movie, they hear from these high school girls that
21:25
Speaker 1: there's a rumor going around that the murderer lives in
21:28
Speaker 1: one of the outhouses at the school. And this happens
21:31
Speaker 1: because once they figure out that there's the killers attacking
21:36
Speaker 1: on rainy nights, they start sending out female police officers
21:40
Speaker 1: that are undercover and under surveillance. This is also something
21:44
Speaker 1: that they really did once they realize this rainy night thing,
21:47
Speaker 1: and the only reason it didn't work, or at least
21:49
Speaker 1: one of the reasons that it didn't work was because
21:52
Speaker 1: the killer was in prison for a different crime for
21:56
Speaker 1: like a year. So the the murders stopped like a year.
22:00
Speaker 1: And it's just because the guy that was doing them
22:03
Speaker 1: got arrested for some other reason. I can't remember exactly
22:05
Speaker 1: what it was. But while they're doing these undercover surveillances,
22:09
Speaker 1: they see these like high school girls walking home and
22:11
Speaker 1: they stop them and you know, tell them to go
22:14
Speaker 1: to safety and get you know, they kind of like
22:16
Speaker 1: bring them home or give them a ride home or
22:18
Speaker 1: something like that. And they talk about this outhouse story.
22:20
Speaker 1: So this this horny gut, it's jacking off all the time.
22:24
Speaker 1: He also mentions this story about there being a guy
22:27
Speaker 1: in the outhouse, and Sue's kind of like, all right,
22:29
Speaker 1: I'm going to figure out what the fuck's going on
22:31
Speaker 1: with this outhouse thing, because this has popped up way
22:33
Speaker 1: too many times. This can't be a damn coincidence. So
22:35
Speaker 1: he goes back to the high school and talks to
22:39
Speaker 1: the kids that he heard that from or whatever, and
22:41
Speaker 1: then he goes and checks out the outhouses. And when
22:44
Speaker 1: he investigates this, he finds a nervous woman that lives
22:48
Speaker 1: near the school. They interview her and find out that
22:50
Speaker 1: she was attacked by the killer and possibly left for dead,
22:54
Speaker 1: but she never told anyone about it because she was
22:56
Speaker 1: in fear for her life. This is also something that
22:58
Speaker 1: really happened. There were some survivors. This guy, apparently before
23:03
Speaker 1: he started murdering people, was a serial rapist in the area.
23:07
Speaker 1: So he would tie women up, raise them, and then leave,
23:10
Speaker 1: and he would like catch them off guard, like grab
23:12
Speaker 1: them from behind, and then he would basically grab their
23:15
Speaker 1: girdle or a shape what's known as shapewhere in Korea.
23:18
Speaker 1: You would like throw that over their heads so they
23:20
Speaker 1: couldn't see anything, and then he would tie their hands
23:23
Speaker 1: up with their bras or whatever and then leave them there.
23:27
Speaker 1: And this lady, I think he thought was dead. I
23:29
Speaker 1: think he choked her unconscious or something and then she
23:31
Speaker 1: played dead or something like that. I can't remember how
23:34
Speaker 1: accurate the story was in the movie that she told
23:36
Speaker 1: to like their real life one, but there were quite
23:39
Speaker 1: a few attacks on women that resulted in rapes that
23:42
Speaker 1: were never reported, or if they were reported, they just
23:45
Speaker 1: nobody ever caught the guy obviously, And if you're wondering why,
23:51
Speaker 1: it's because the DNA technology at this time, especially in
23:55
Speaker 1: South Korea, was terrible. So then we cut back to Park.
23:58
Speaker 1: He still has him in under investigation, and he has
24:01
Speaker 1: him hanging upside down by his feet. Sue runs in
24:04
Speaker 1: and checks his hands and they're not soft. They're like
24:07
Speaker 1: really callous. So the lady that he interviewed told him, like,
24:10
Speaker 1: the guy that attacked me had unusually soft hands, almost
24:14
Speaker 1: like a woman's hands. And so since this guy's been
24:16
Speaker 1: working construction and a factory or whatever, his hands aren't
24:20
Speaker 1: soft at all. They're callousy and bumpy as fuck. So
24:22
Speaker 1: he's like, we gotta let this guy go. He's definitely
24:24
Speaker 1: not the guy. That is also a real thing that happened.
24:28
Speaker 1: The surviving The surviving victims described his hands as like
24:33
Speaker 1: soft female hands, basically like he had little girly, little
24:37
Speaker 1: girly ass hands on And it's kind of crazy because
24:40
Speaker 1: in real life the descriptions of this guy and the
24:43
Speaker 1: police sketches were apparently incredibly accurate. He describing his height,
24:48
Speaker 1: his age, and like his possible background. They pretty much
24:52
Speaker 1: nailed it. And this the guy, the actual killer, was
24:55
Speaker 1: a suspect that they looked at many times. They just
24:58
Speaker 1: for whatever reason, didn't torture this specific guy they were
25:02
Speaker 1: torturing like anybody else that they brought in there. But
25:05
Speaker 1: I guess this guy just slipped through the cracks and
25:07
Speaker 1: did not get the torture treatment. Nobody ripped his kneecaps
25:10
Speaker 1: off his legs or whatever. Okay, back to the movie,
25:13
Speaker 1: So Sue's like, let this fucking guy go. He's not
25:15
Speaker 1: the guy. They start fighting and wrestling around Park and
25:18
Speaker 1: sew are beating the shit out of each other. The
25:20
Speaker 1: assistant breaks it up by showing them that the song
25:22
Speaker 1: is playing on the radio and that it's also raining
25:25
Speaker 1: outside and the song thing is also a real thing.
25:27
Speaker 1: There was like a song, a really like niche song
25:30
Speaker 1: that was being requested a lot during this time period,
25:33
Speaker 1: and they thought that might have had something to do
25:34
Speaker 1: with it. So right away they declare a state of emergency,
25:37
Speaker 1: but they can't get anyone to come help. Another thing
25:40
Speaker 1: that was going on in real life that the movie
25:42
Speaker 1: covers briefly, but I feel like they do a good
25:45
Speaker 1: job because you could spend a lot of time on
25:47
Speaker 1: this is there was a like a South Korean airport
25:50
Speaker 1: bombing that happened, and there was a lot of suspicion
25:54
Speaker 1: towards North Korea committing more terror attacks on South Korea
25:57
Speaker 1: at the time. I think it's because the Olympic were
26:00
Speaker 1: being hosted in Seoul, so they were like focusing all
26:04
Speaker 1: of their police manpower towards these terrorist attacks basically, so
26:08
Speaker 1: like they couldn't get help from any surrounding areas, which
26:12
Speaker 1: is something that I think they believed that the killer
26:15
Speaker 1: used to his advantage, like he was also aware of
26:17
Speaker 1: this that there would be less attention on this small town,
26:21
Speaker 1: so he knew that he had a better chance of
26:23
Speaker 1: not being caught. And the next morning there's a body
26:26
Speaker 1: found the corner finds pieces of peaches shoved into her vagina.
26:30
Speaker 1: I think they said, like nine peaches, nine slices of peaches,
26:34
Speaker 1: which is a real thing that really happened. They said,
26:36
Speaker 1: like the guy started off raping and basically he just
26:39
Speaker 1: kept escalating his crimes, like they just started becoming more
26:43
Speaker 1: and more sadistic. And this is something where they think
26:46
Speaker 1: he was like eating with his victims and like force
26:50
Speaker 1: feeding them and then also apparently shoving stuff into their vaginas.
26:54
Speaker 1: And this time, when the song was requested the radio station,
26:58
Speaker 1: they saved the postcard and it does have the address
27:01
Speaker 1: on it, so they go, they bust into this fucking
27:03
Speaker 1: guy's house. They bring him in right away, and he
27:06
Speaker 1: is quite young looking with soft hands, so they're just like, listen, motherfucker,
27:10
Speaker 1: you write that letter. And he admits it right away.
27:12
Speaker 1: He's like, yeah, I wrote the letter. I always requested
27:15
Speaker 1: to be played on a rainy day. Excuse me. Sue
27:18
Speaker 1: is questioning him about the radio program because he says
27:20
Speaker 1: he was home all night listening to it. So he's
27:23
Speaker 1: just like, if you were at home all night listening
27:24
Speaker 1: to it, what was the last song that was played
27:27
Speaker 1: at the end of the hour or whatever. And the
27:28
Speaker 1: guy's just kind of like, I don't know, I don't
27:30
Speaker 1: remember that shit. And so he's just like, all right, Bud,
27:34
Speaker 1: you're getting tortured. But the Chief's like, listen, I don't
27:37
Speaker 1: want you to torture people anymore. But Park's helper just
27:39
Speaker 1: fucking flying kicks this guy out of nowhere and knocks
27:42
Speaker 1: his ass out of his chair, and all hell breaks
27:45
Speaker 1: because the Chief's like, no, no more fucking drop kicks,
27:48
Speaker 1: No more fucking hanging up people by their feet. God
27:50
Speaker 1: damn it. The press is starting to hear about this shit.
27:52
Speaker 1: And after this Park and Sue are talking about how
27:55
Speaker 1: frustrating this all is. You kind of see these characters
27:59
Speaker 1: slowly rift towards each other as the movie goes on,
28:03
Speaker 1: like Park starts to get more serious about this and
28:06
Speaker 1: Sue starts to get a little bit more reckless. Where
28:09
Speaker 1: especially with this suspect, the young guy that they found
28:13
Speaker 1: out that was requesting the music. He starts to think, like,
28:16
Speaker 1: maybe we do need to fucking torture this guy because
28:19
Speaker 1: I don't know if we have any real evidence against
28:22
Speaker 1: against him, and I'm pretty sure he's the damn guy.
28:25
Speaker 1: While these two are kind of going over this and
28:27
Speaker 1: they're kind of hashing out like what they need to
28:29
Speaker 1: do next, Sue starts to ask him about the first
28:32
Speaker 1: guy that they interrogated, the mentally disabled guy, And while
28:35
Speaker 1: they're talking about this, he realizes that this guy must
28:39
Speaker 1: have at least seen the murder. So they're like, Okay,
28:42
Speaker 1: we got to go grab that guy again. We need
28:44
Speaker 1: to talk to his ass again. So they go to
28:46
Speaker 1: the bar that his family runs, and after the big
28:48
Speaker 1: fight with the chief, the chief basically told the guy
28:51
Speaker 1: that's always jump kicking everybody, like, hey, Bud, you're fucking fired.
28:55
Speaker 1: Get the fuck out. Of here or whatever. At least
28:57
Speaker 1: he like, let us ask go, probably put his ass
28:59
Speaker 1: on Proba or something. So they see that guy at
29:02
Speaker 1: the bar just getting drunk as hell, and he starts
29:05
Speaker 1: a big fight right away because there's like some college
29:07
Speaker 1: kids in there that are like talking shit about the
29:09
Speaker 1: police or whatever. He's just like, this guy has to
29:12
Speaker 1: fight everybody. He can't like stop himself, so he instantly
29:15
Speaker 1: starts fucking fighting him and just it's incredibly hectic in
29:18
Speaker 1: the bar. There's like it's like three v one, but
29:21
Speaker 1: this guy is just fighting everybody like a fucking animal.
29:24
Speaker 1: And then the special needs guy gets in there at
29:26
Speaker 1: some point grabs a piece of wood with a nail
29:29
Speaker 1: sticking out of it and just slams it into the
29:33
Speaker 1: torture CoP's leg, And this kind of stops everything because
29:36
Speaker 1: that guy screams super loud and he's just like what
29:38
Speaker 1: the fuck, and he pulls the nail out of his
29:41
Speaker 1: leg and he just has like a big hole in
29:43
Speaker 1: his leg, and that guy runs off. They do end
29:45
Speaker 1: up catching him, Park and Sue end up catching him
29:48
Speaker 1: and they question him about the murderer and he says
29:50
Speaker 1: that he saw the entire thing that so that lady
29:53
Speaker 1: that was killed. He would like follow her around because
29:56
Speaker 1: he thought she was really pretty or whatever, and just
29:58
Speaker 1: watch her. And apparently he was hiding in a pile
30:02
Speaker 1: of hay to see what happened, or to watch her
30:06
Speaker 1: as she walked home or something like that, and he
30:09
Speaker 1: saw the whole thing. He saw the murder. He says
30:12
Speaker 1: he saw the killer's face at least three times. So
30:14
Speaker 1: they start showing him pictures of the latest suspects, and
30:17
Speaker 1: they're trying to get him to say, like, do you
30:19
Speaker 1: recognize any of these people? But when they're doing that,
30:22
Speaker 1: the college kids from the bar show up and they
30:24
Speaker 1: just start fucking fighting with Park and Seoue, and this
30:27
Speaker 1: lets the handicap guy run off and get away temporarily.
30:31
Speaker 1: So they have to fight off these college kids, and
30:33
Speaker 1: they're like, hey, motherfuckers, we're we're real cops. Leave us alone.
30:36
Speaker 1: We're trying to fucking do an investigation. I think they
30:39
Speaker 1: just think that they're random guys beating like up this
30:42
Speaker 1: mentally handicapped guy. So so Park chases him down. He
30:45
Speaker 1: gets his college kid beat up or whatever, and he
30:48
Speaker 1: chases down the guy and the guy is just standing
30:52
Speaker 1: on the train tracks and he just lets the train
30:55
Speaker 1: hit him before he could identify of the killer or
30:57
Speaker 1: anything like that. I think he's scared that he think
31:00
Speaker 1: that he's going to get tortured again or thrown in
31:03
Speaker 1: prison over this for some reason. And yeah, so he
31:05
Speaker 1: just commits suicide via train right in front of Park,
31:09
Speaker 1: and Park like gets his blood all over him and shit.
31:11
Speaker 1: So the next step in the investigation is sending off
31:14
Speaker 1: some of the semen that they found to America for testing.
31:17
Speaker 1: I guess at this time, this sort of DNA testing
31:20
Speaker 1: was only available in America, so they have to wait
31:24
Speaker 1: around for DNA results, which is something that they really
31:27
Speaker 1: had to deal with at the time. Park takes his
31:29
Speaker 1: partner to the hospital. They're out and he's just kind
31:31
Speaker 1: of like, how's your leg, dude, And he lifts it
31:33
Speaker 1: up and it's all fucking swollen and nasty looking. He's like, hey, buddy,
31:37
Speaker 1: I think you need to go to the hospital and
31:38
Speaker 1: get that shit looked at. It looks like he got
31:40
Speaker 1: something growing in your caf there. And so so basically
31:44
Speaker 1: he takes him the right away. The doctors are like,
31:47
Speaker 1: he has tetanus really bad. He should have gotten this
31:50
Speaker 1: checked out immediately. We're gonna have to cut his fucking
31:53
Speaker 1: leg off, and this news Park has to sign off
31:56
Speaker 1: as like his almost like one of his family members,
31:58
Speaker 1: basically because this guy has no real family nearby I guess,
32:02
Speaker 1: so par Park signs off on the surgery for him,
32:04
Speaker 1: and at this point he completely looks defeated. He no
32:07
Speaker 1: longer looks light hearted or goofy or anything like that.
32:10
Speaker 1: His whole demeanor has changed. And when he gets home
32:13
Speaker 1: from this, his wife is just like, you need to
32:15
Speaker 1: quit your job. She basically just throws it all out
32:18
Speaker 1: there that she's noticing all the effects that it's having
32:20
Speaker 1: on him and how miserable he's been lately and how
32:22
Speaker 1: much this is wearing. Later that night, Sue is keeping
32:25
Speaker 1: an eye on the most recent suspect, the young guy
32:28
Speaker 1: that they beat up and eventually had to let go
32:31
Speaker 1: or whatever. He tries to follow after him, but his
32:33
Speaker 1: car doesn't start and he takes off on foot, so
32:36
Speaker 1: he's trying to chase this guy down. It's a rainy night.
32:39
Speaker 1: He suspects that he's going to be up to no good.
32:42
Speaker 1: This cuts over to Park's wife. She's out picking up
32:44
Speaker 1: medical supplies for her job late that night, and we
32:47
Speaker 1: see someone watching her from the woods, and this is
32:50
Speaker 1: definitely the killer because he's really honing in on her.
32:54
Speaker 1: But then a high school girl walks by, going in
32:57
Speaker 1: the opposite direction, and as Park's why and this high
33:00
Speaker 1: school girl passed, it, averts his attention to the high
33:04
Speaker 1: school girl and he goes down there and kills her instead.
33:07
Speaker 1: And this is the first time in the movie where
33:09
Speaker 1: the camera really stays on the killer and it actually
33:12
Speaker 1: shows him tie up a victim and start to attack
33:16
Speaker 1: them basically. So then we cut to the next morning
33:18
Speaker 1: in the rain, the press, all the journalists are surrounding
33:21
Speaker 1: the woods where this girl was found dead. Sue walks
33:24
Speaker 1: up and he notices right away that it's the same
33:27
Speaker 1: girl that he was talking to about the outhouse theory.
33:31
Speaker 1: I think he helped her out earlier. He helped her
33:33
Speaker 1: put a band aid on her leg or something. And
33:36
Speaker 1: as soon as he sees that it's her, he just
33:38
Speaker 1: goes straight for the fucking soft handed guy, the most
33:42
Speaker 1: recent suspect. He just goes straight to his house and
33:45
Speaker 1: just starts beating the fuck out of him. He drags
33:47
Speaker 1: him to the train tracks, where he is just whooping
33:50
Speaker 1: his ass. He's just fucking pistol whip in his mouth
33:52
Speaker 1: and shit like that, and the dude just leaking blood.
33:55
Speaker 1: You know, he's all handcuffed and shit. He pulls his
33:57
Speaker 1: gun out and just puts it up to his head
33:59
Speaker 1: and he's just basically saying, like, confess for the murders
34:03
Speaker 1: or I'm gonna blow your fucking head off right now.
34:05
Speaker 1: In the middle of all this, Park runs up to
34:07
Speaker 1: him with the DNA results from America. He's just like, hey, hey,
34:11
Speaker 1: hold up, I got this. You know, we'll find out
34:13
Speaker 1: if it's the guy or not. And so he hands
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Speaker 1: it over to Sue. Sue opens the envelope and looks
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Speaker 1: at it and you just kind of see him reading
34:20
Speaker 1: and it says that this guy's DNA does not match.
34:23
Speaker 1: So he drops the fucking the shit in the rain,
34:26
Speaker 1: and he's just like son of a bitch because he's
34:28
Speaker 1: convinced that this guy's the killer still and he can't
34:31
Speaker 1: handle it at all. It completely frustrates him, completely throws
34:33
Speaker 1: him over the edge. Park makes the guy look in
34:36
Speaker 1: his eyes, and this is the first time where he
34:38
Speaker 1: does the eye test where he says, I don't know
34:41
Speaker 1: if it's him or not. Every other time he doesn't
34:44
Speaker 1: really say anything. He just stares at him, and he
34:47
Speaker 1: kind of gives the impression that, like, this is the guy.
34:50
Speaker 1: My skills are at work. The eye test never fails.
34:53
Speaker 1: After that, a train comes. It separates the three of them,
34:56
Speaker 1: leaving the suspect on the opposite side of the train,
34:59
Speaker 1: and once the trains go, they see that he's run
35:01
Speaker 1: halfway down the train tunnel. Sue points his gun and shoots,
35:05
Speaker 1: and the bullet just kind of ricochets all over the place,
35:07
Speaker 1: and you just see the guy laying like face down
35:09
Speaker 1: in the middle of the train tracks. At first, I
35:11
Speaker 1: was like, ock, he shot him, even though he's clearly
35:14
Speaker 1: not the killer, but luckily he missed. After this we
35:17
Speaker 1: cut to two thousand and three. We see Park, his
35:20
Speaker 1: wife and their two kids. He appears to be a
35:22
Speaker 1: traveling salesman for a juice extractor, which is pretty cool.
35:26
Speaker 1: No longer a police officer anymore, probably for the best.
35:28
Speaker 1: He's on his way to a job and tells the
35:30
Speaker 1: driver to pull over near the crime scene we saw
35:33
Speaker 1: at the beginning of the movie. He approaches the concrete
35:36
Speaker 1: ditch cautiously and bends down to look inside. While he's
35:39
Speaker 1: looking through the tunnel, a little girl asks if he's
35:42
Speaker 1: found something in there. The girl tells Park that she
35:44
Speaker 1: saw a man looking in that hole the other day,
35:46
Speaker 1: and he told her that he did something there a
35:49
Speaker 1: long time ago. So Park kind of starts to think,
35:52
Speaker 1: oh shit, that was probably the killer, and so he
35:54
Speaker 1: asked her to describe what this man looked like, and
35:56
Speaker 1: she just says ordinary. He's kind of like, can you
35:59
Speaker 1: be a little bit more to scripted than that? She
36:01
Speaker 1: says no, he just kind of looked like an ordinary guy.
36:04
Speaker 1: He does realize this must have been the killer as
36:07
Speaker 1: he's staring off in the distance. He quickly turns and
36:10
Speaker 1: looks right into the camera with his all knowing stare,
36:14
Speaker 1: and Bung June Ho said that this was a way
36:16
Speaker 1: for the killer to feel like the audience in the
36:20
Speaker 1: movie itself was looking at him knowing that he was
36:23
Speaker 1: going to be caught. One day after that, we get
36:25
Speaker 1: the credits. So I ended up watching this movie because
36:27
Speaker 1: I did my crime ranking list last week. I'm just
36:30
Speaker 1: gonna go ahead and get this out of the way.
36:32
Speaker 1: I would say for sure this movie would end up
36:35
Speaker 1: on my top crime movies. It would bump seven off
36:38
Speaker 1: the list if I kept it out of twenty three
36:41
Speaker 1: seven would have to get pushed off the list, and
36:43
Speaker 1: I even think this one would probably land somewhere in
36:45
Speaker 1: my definitely my top ten, if not my top five
36:48
Speaker 1: crime movies of all time. Just a really great flick,
36:52
Speaker 1: really well done. The suspense is great. The way they
36:55
Speaker 1: add the sound design and the music for this movie,
36:58
Speaker 1: it just really adds to the tension. The story's super interesting,
37:02
Speaker 1: and obviously there's a lot more to dig into after
37:05
Speaker 1: you've watched the movie if you're interested in true crime
37:08
Speaker 1: stuff at all. So some of the other aspects of
37:11
Speaker 1: this case that I didn't mention beforehand. In twenty nineteen,
37:14
Speaker 1: advances in DNA technology linked biological evidence from several crime
37:19
Speaker 1: scenes to Leen Chun Jay, who is the killer, and
37:22
Speaker 1: he was already serving a life sentence for murdering his
37:25
Speaker 1: sister in law. In nineteen ninety four, After being confronted
37:28
Speaker 1: with the evidence, Lee confessed to all ten Hawaii Song murders,
37:32
Speaker 1: though investigators officially attributed nine to him and one remains debated,
37:36
Speaker 1: four additional murders and more than thirty rapes and attempted rapes.
37:40
Speaker 1: He also provided details that had never been made public,
37:43
Speaker 1: convincing investigators that his confessions were juniors and the murder
37:47
Speaker 1: that he was caught for is pretty wild. So this
37:50
Speaker 1: guy eventually did go on to get married and have
37:53
Speaker 1: a kid, and surprise, surprise, he's incredibly mean and abusive
37:58
Speaker 1: to his wife and his son, to the point where
38:01
Speaker 1: she leaves him, and he's kind of constantly threatening her.
38:04
Speaker 1: He's calling her saying he's going to do these horrible
38:07
Speaker 1: things to her, and YadA YadA. He threatens his ex
38:10
Speaker 1: wife saying that he's going to do something terrible, and she's,
38:13
Speaker 1: I don't know, probably really scared. I think he was
38:15
Speaker 1: still committing murders while he was married too. I believe
38:19
Speaker 1: there's a few other murders that they found out he
38:22
Speaker 1: was a part of while he was married. I think
38:24
Speaker 1: he started It sounded like he started going to other
38:27
Speaker 1: areas and committing basically similar types of murders, but he
38:31
Speaker 1: was doing them like instead of just catching people near fields,
38:34
Speaker 1: he would break into someone's house and I think he
38:37
Speaker 1: murdered a few people that way, which is really fucking awful.
38:40
Speaker 1: But he calls his ex wife and he says, you know,
38:42
Speaker 1: I'm going to do something terrible, and then like a
38:44
Speaker 1: little while later he calls the sister and says like, hey,
38:49
Speaker 1: I've got all of her stuff packed up. I just
38:52
Speaker 1: need someone to come get it and I'll help you
38:54
Speaker 1: load it and all this stuff, and she agrees, the
38:57
Speaker 1: sister agrees, she goes over there by herself. Unfortunately, this
39:01
Speaker 1: is just kind of one of those things where it's like, fuck,
39:04
Speaker 1: you think, not to victim blame her anything, but you
39:07
Speaker 1: think if your sister leaves this guy because he's been
39:09
Speaker 1: like threatening her and abusing her and their child like horribly,
39:12
Speaker 1: you think she would have been like, maybe I should
39:14
Speaker 1: have some backup here. This guy doesn't seem sane or stable,
39:18
Speaker 1: maybe a little bit violent obviously, So she goes there
39:21
Speaker 1: by herself. Right away, He's like, hey, I made some tea.
39:24
Speaker 1: He gives her some tea loaded up with like fifty
39:27
Speaker 1: sleeping pills, and almost instantly she starts to feel the
39:31
Speaker 1: effects of it, and she tries to leave the house,
39:33
Speaker 1: but he catches her kills her. And this became pretty apparent.
39:38
Speaker 1: He tried to kind of, you know, roll with it.
39:40
Speaker 1: He even helped look for her in the investigation and
39:43
Speaker 1: stuff like that, and was basically just trying to like
39:45
Speaker 1: be as you know, helpful as possible, but quickly the
39:49
Speaker 1: police realized, oh, yeah, you talked to her on the
39:51
Speaker 1: phone and all this shit and you were the last
39:53
Speaker 1: person that talked to her. Yeah, you know, all all
39:55
Speaker 1: this stuff, and he's just kind of like what Noah
39:58
Speaker 1: wasn't and they're like, all right, bitch, to arrest. And
40:01
Speaker 1: so he was already sent he was sentenced to death,
40:03
Speaker 1: I think, but then it got switched to a life sentence.
40:06
Speaker 1: So despite being responsible for all these other horrible murders
40:10
Speaker 1: and rapes, he was sentenced to a wife in prison
40:13
Speaker 1: for this specific murder of the sister in law in
40:17
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety four, so the Hawaii Song murders were open
40:20
Speaker 1: until twenty nineteen. At that time, he was identified as
40:25
Speaker 1: the killer, but South Korea had a fifteen year statue
40:29
Speaker 1: of limitations for murder, so it wasn't actually charged for
40:33
Speaker 1: these crimes. He did remain in prison for the rest
40:35
Speaker 1: of his life, though, because of the sister in law murder.
40:38
Speaker 1: Once people realized that the statute of limitations were coming
40:41
Speaker 1: up on this case, the outrage that it caused changed
40:46
Speaker 1: South Korea's statute of limitation laws in twenty fifteen, although
40:50
Speaker 1: it didn't apply to this because it wasn't retroactive. Well
40:54
Speaker 1: that's all I have for Memories of Murder. Fantastic movie
40:58
Speaker 1: five out of five. Next week, I'm going to have
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41:03
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