The Attorney

The Attorney
Theatrical poster
Hangul
Hanja
Revised RomanizationByeonhoin
McCune–ReischauerPyŏnhoin
Directed byYang Woo-suk
Written byYang Woo-suk
Yoon Hyeon-ho
Produced byChoi Jeong-ho
Choi Jae-won
StarringSong Kang-ho
Kim Young-ae
Oh Dal-su
Kwak Do-won
Im Si-wan
CinematographyLee Tae-yoon
Edited byKim Sang-bum
Kim Jae-bum
Music byJo Yeong-wook
Production
company
Withus Film
Distributed byNext Entertainment World
Release date
  • December 18, 2013 (2013-12-18)
Running time
127 minutes
CountrySouth Korea
LanguageKorean
Box officeUS$74.1 million[1]

The Attorney (Korean: 변호인; RR: Byeonhoin) is a 2013 South Korean legal drama film co-written and directed by Yang Woo-suk.[2][3][4][5]

The film in screenwriting and directorial debut for Woo-suk, 11,375,954 tickets sold and a revenue of ₩82.9 billion, became the 15th-best-selling Korean film of all time and the second-highest-grossing Korean film of 2013.[6][7]

The film depicts Burim case [ko] when 1981 in South Korea under military regime at that time, that during the authoritarian Chun Doo-hwan regime, 22 students, teachers and office workers who belonged to a book club were arrested without warrants on fabricated charges that they were North Korea sympathizers. Roh Moo-hyun, then a tax lawyer from Busan, formed a legal team with his allies, including Moon Jae-in and Kim Kwang-il, to defend the arrested individuals against the government. After the case, Roh became an influential human rights lawyer throughout the 1980s; he later entered politics and became the 9th president of South Korea. Later, Moon Jae-in also became the 12th president of South Korea.[8][9][10]

  1. ^ "The Attorney (2013)". Archived from the original on 2018-03-11. Retrieved 2017-05-26.
  2. ^ Jeong Ji-won (20 January 2014). "A most unlikely hit-maker". Korea JoongAng Daily. Retrieved 6 October 2014.
  3. ^ Lee Yong-cheol (10 February 2014). "YANG Woo-suk, Director of THE ATTORNEY: "This Film is about the collision of individuals' different beliefs."". Korean Film Biz Zone. Retrieved 6 October 2014.
  4. ^ Song Soon-jin (21 November 2013). "Press Conference Held for SONG Kang-ho's THE ATTORNEY". Korean Cinema Today. Retrieved 6 October 2014.
  5. ^ Jung Hyun-mok (21 January 2015). "Smash-hit films criticized for political leanings". Korea JoongAng Daily. Retrieved 23 January 2015.
  6. ^ Pierce Conran (6 February 2014). "THE ATTORNEY Climbs to 8th on All Time Chart". Korean Film Biz Zone. Retrieved 6 October 2014.
  7. ^ "The Best Selling Films of 2013". Koreanfilm.org. Retrieved 6 October 2014.
  8. ^ Lee Yong-cheol (9 December 2013). "In Focus: The Attorney". Korean Film Biz Zone. Retrieved 6 October 2014.
  9. ^ Lee Hoo-nam; Lim Ju-ri; Lee Yoon-seok (20 January 2014). "Attorney a huge success, but blurs facts". Korea JoongAng Daily. Retrieved 6 October 2014.
  10. ^ Ko Dong-hwan (22 January 2014). "Victims of The Attorney visit their forlorn hero". The Korea Times. Retrieved 6 October 2014.