The Crucible (2011 film)

The Crucible Hangul RRDogani MRTogani also known as Silenced is a 2011 South Korean film based on the novel of the same name by Gong Jiyoung, starring Gong Yoo and Jung Yumi. It is based on actual events that took place at Gwangju Inhwa School for the hearingimpaired, where young deaf students were the victims of repeated sexual assaults by faculty members over a period of five years in the early 2000s.

The film has sparked public outcry over lenient court rulings, prompting police to reopen the case and lawmakers to introduce bills for the human rights of the vulnerable. Four out of the six teachers at the Gwangju Inhwa School for whom serious punishment was recommended by the education authority were reinstated after they escaped punishment under the statute of limitations. Only two of them were convicted of repeated rapes of eight young students and received jail terms of less than a year. 71yearold ex teacher Kim Yeongil recently claimed that two children had died when the incident took place in 1964, after which he was beaten and forced to resign his job by the vice principal. Two months after the films release and resulting controversy, Gwangju City officially shut down the school in November 2011. In July 2012, the Gwangju District Court sentenced the 63yearold former administrator of Gwangju Inhwa School toyears in prison for sexually assaulting an 18yearold student in April 2005. He was also charged with physically abusing another 17yearold student who had witnessed the crime the victim reportedly attempted to commit suicide afterward. The administrator, only identified by his surname Kim, was also ordered to wear an electronic anklet foryears following his release.Kang Inho Gong Yoo is the newly appointed art teacher at Benevolence Academy, a deaf school children in the fictional city of Mujin, North Jeolla Province. He has a dark past his wife was a high school student who committed suicide and his daughter is under the care of his mother. He is excited to teach his new students, yet the children are aloof and distant, trying to avoid running into him as much as possible. Inho does not give up, however, trying to show the kids that he cares. When the children finally open up, Inho faces the shocking and ugly truth about the school and what the students have been enduring in secret the children are being physically an

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