The Case of Itaewon Homicide

The Case of Itaewon Homicide
Hangul	이태원 살인사건
Hanja	梨泰院 殺人事件
Revised Romanization	Itaewon Salinsageon
McCune–Reischauer	It'aewŏn Sarinsakŏn
Directed by	Hong Ki-sun
Written by	Lee Maeyu-gu
Produced by	David Cho Lee Jeong-hee Jeong Seong-hun Sin Beom-su
Starring	Jang Keun-suk Jung Jin-young
Cinematography	Oh Cheng-ok
Edited by	Kang Sung-hoon
Music by	Park Ji-woong
Production company	Sponge Entertainment
Distributed by	Showbox
Release date	September 10, 2009 (2009-09-10)
Running time	100 minutes
Country	South Korea
Language	Korean
Box office	$3.3 million[1]

The Case of Itaewon Homicide (Korean: 이태원 살인사건; translit. Itaewon Salinsageon) is a 2009 South Korean crime thriller film, based on the true story of the Itaewon murder case, which shocked Korea when Hongik college student Cho Jung-Pil was found dead at an Itaewon Burger King in 1997. The murder was investigated in 1997 by CID Agents J. Choi, D. Zeliff, T. Barnes and B. Crow. Two troubled U.S. teenagers—Arthur Patterson (the son of a former U.S. Army officer and Korean mother) and Edward Lee—became suspects and were convicted. Patterson was released a year later in a special amnesty and Lee was freed a year after that due to lack of evidence. The case never resulted in further convictions. [1] It stars Jang Keun-suk as Arthur Patterson and Jung Jin-young as his lawyer. Song Joong-ki played the victim. The film had 531,068 admissions in South Korea nationwide.^[2]