Tabloid Truth

Tabloid Truth Hangul RRJjirasi Wiheomhan Somun lit. Leaflet Dangerous Rumors is a 2014 South Korean thriller film directed by Kim Kwangsik, and starring Kim Kangwoo, Jung Jinyoung, Ko Changseok and Park Sungwoong.

A scandalous rumor about Mijin Go Wonhee, an upandcoming actress, is included as a gossip item in a stock market tipsheet jjirasi and propagated by the tabloids, causing her to kill herself in an apparent suicide. Woogon Kim Kangwoo, Mijins devoted longtime manager who dedicated everything to building her career, initiates a vengeful investigation to expose the sources of the rumor. With unexpected assistance from tabloid distributor Mr. Park Jung Jinyoung and legendary wiretapper Baek Moon Ko Changseok, Woo unravels the opaque and lucrative world of secret tips and salacious rumors.The film portrays a particularly insidious and unexpected forum for tabloid gossipmongering jjirasi from the Japanese word chirashi, meaning leaflet, or the stock market tipsheet. In weekly secret meetings consisting of corporate personnel, politicians, reporters, public officials, and others, insiders exchange information about the latest goingson. The collected intelligence is published into a tip sheet and distributed through paid subscriber channels before getting picked up by the tabloids as juicy blind items. What makes this combination particularly toxic is the sheen of respectability and truth given by the financial market players involved, despite the only occasional accuracy of its content. ........

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