Community | March 03, 2010 | 1 comment

Kim Dae-jung: Life on Death Row

The film explores experiences of death row and the death penalty in South Korea during the years of political upheaval before democracy. The film contains extracts from an interview with Kim Dae-jung, former president of South Korea who died in August of 2009. Kim Dae-jung was sentenced to death during the struggle for democracy and went on to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and to become President of South Korea. The film includes other testimonies from political prisoners Kim Song-man and Yoo In-tae, and interestingly from Bok Ki-man who was a prison guard tasked with guarding Kim Dae-jung during his time on death row. The film focuses on the emotions of being a condemned man as well as the impact that the death penalty has on those tasked with carrying it out. The film was shot in 2009. The archive images used are from the Kim Dae-jung national library in South Korea.
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