Kim Dae Jung Must Not Die

A man sentenced to death stands with his people before history

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.

• Release date
• January 10, 2024
• Runtime
• 126 min
• Genres
• Documentary, History
• Director
• Min Hwan-ki

Cast

Kim Dae-jung Self (archive footage) Jang Hyun-sung Narrator / Kim Dae-jung (voice) Jeon So-hyun Lee Hee-ho (voice) Kim Do-young Reenactor Kim Jae-rok Reenactor Seo Suk-kyu Reenactor Kim Nam-hee Reenactor

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Choi Nak-yong Reenactor