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Film Screening
Memories of Murder
Directed byBong, Joon-ho, 2003
27 February 2009
Memories of Murder is based on the true
story of the country's first known serial murders,
which took place between 1986 and 1991 in
Hwaseong, Gyeonggi Province.
Between the year 1986 and 1991, a small
village in Korea's Gyeonggi Province was witness to
the rape and murder of 10 women, all killed in the
same groteque and brutal manner. Korea had never
before experienced serial murders of this kind, and
an intense media frenzy and police investigation
followed. As the murders continued to take place
over the years, investigators grew more desperate,
at one point even consulting a shaman who advised
them to move the gate of the police station to a
more favourable location! All investigative efforts
failed and to this day, nobody knows who the
murderer was or whether he is still alive.
In 1996, the poignant memories of this
incident were reshaped into a successful stage play
directed by Kim Kwang-rim. The dramatic intensity
of the story attracted the interest of several
filmmakers who wished to make a film of the
material, but ultimately it was Bong Joon-ho, the
talented director who debuted in 2000 with Barking
Dogs Never Bite, who was charged with the task.
Bong took the stage play and, consulting historical
documents, wrote a screenplay focusing on two of
the police investigators. Bong's primary addition to
the material was to highlight the era in which the
murders took place - a time in which the Korean
populace was struggling to shake off its authoritarian
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