Kim Dae Jung Must Not Die

Min Hwan-ki
2024-01-10

A man sentenced to death stands with his people before history
8.25
126 min

Kim Dae Jung, who stands next to people in the middle of caotic history! A young businessman Kim Dae Jung recognized the victims of ideology. He decided to be a politician to make his country where people's politic and democracy are rooted. The price of being leave from a guaranteed future and take the first step on a bumby road was kidnapping, death threats, imprisonment, and a death sentence that shook him to the core, but even in his final moments, when he was sentenced to death, Kim never wavered. "Democracy will be recovered. I believe in it." The life of President Kim Dae-jung, a death row inmate who survived from the throes of death, four parliamentary elections, and three unsuccessful presidential campaigns, is etched into the modern history of South Korea.

Cast

Name Character Team
Kim Dae-jung Self (archive footage) Unowned
Jang Hyun-sung Narrator / Kim Dae-jung (voice) Unowned
Jeon So-hyun Lee Hee-ho (voice) Unowned
Kim Do-young Reenactor Unowned
Kim Jae-rok Reenactor Unowned
Seo Suk-kyu Reenactor Unowned
Kim Nam-hee Reenactor Unowned
Choi Nak-yong Reenactor Unowned
Kang Won-yong Self (archive footage) Unowned
Kwon No-gab Self Unowned
Kim Sang-hyun Self (archive footage) Unowned
Kim Sung-jae Self Unowned
Kim Ok-du Self Unowned
Namgung Jin Self Unowned
Moon Dong-hwan Self (archive footage) Unowned
Ye Chun-ho Self (archive footage) Unowned
Lee Geun-pal Self (archive footage) Unowned
Lee Moon-young Self (archive footage) Unowned
Lee Hyeop Self Unowned
Lee Hee-ho Self (archive footage) Unowned
Jung Dong-nyeon Self (archive footage) Unowned
Cha Eun-gyeong Self (archive footage) Unowned
Han Hwa-gab Self Unowned
Bruce Cumings Self Unowned
David McCann Self Unowned
Jerome A. Cohen Self Unowned
Park Sang-hoon Self Unowned
Seong Han-yong Self Unowned
Lee Jong-chan Self Unowned
Han Hong-gu Self Unowned