Kim Dae-jung Again

Directed by Kim Jin-hong (김진홍)

Written by • Jin Sun-young (진서경) • Kim Hye-young-III (김혜영) • Kim Jae-sun (김재선) • Kim Soo-jung-IV (김수정)

82min | Release date in South Korea: 2022/01/27

Synopsis
Kim Dae-jung competed against Park Chung-hee of the Democratic Republican Party as the presidential candidate of the New Democratic Party, but lost in 1971. He then lead a pro-democracy movement against the Park Chung-hee regime in the United States, Japan and other countries, until he was kidnapped by an agent of the Central Intelligence Agency (now the National Intelligence Service) in a hotel in Tokyo on the 8th of August, 1973.

He was imprisoned for the 1976-1978 Declaration of Democracy and National Salvation and resumed his political career in early 1980, but was sentenced to death for treason in July in connection with the Gwangju pro-democracy movement. He was released from prison in December 1982 and moved to the U.S. The 10-year record of the New Democratic Party's presidential candidate from 1971 to his release in 1982 is covered in the 10th anniversary of his death.