The Case of Itaewon Homicide

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← Previous revision Revision as of 00:40, 8 April 2026 Line 19: Line 19: |gross = $3.3 million<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://boxofficemojo.com/movies/intl/?page=&wk=2009W37&id=_fTHECASEOFITAEWON01|title = Itaewon salinsageon}}</ref> |gross = $3.3 million<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://boxofficemojo.com/movies/intl/?page=&wk=2009W37&id=_fTHECASEOFITAEWON01|title = Itaewon salinsageon}}</ref> }} }} '''''The Case of Itaewon Homicide''''' ({{Korean/auto|hangul=^이태원 살인사건|rr=yes}}) is a 2009 South Korean [[crime thriller film]], based on the true story of the [[Itaewon murder case]], which shocked Korea when Hongik college student Cho Jung-Pil was found dead at an [[Itaewon]] [[Burger King]] in 1997. The murder was investigated in 1997 by CID Agents J. Choi, D. Zeliff, T. Barnes and B. Crow. Two troubled U.S. teenagers—Arthur Patterson (the son of a former U.S. Army officer and Korean mother) and Edward Lee—became suspects and were convicted. Patterson was released a year later in a special amnesty and Lee was freed a year after that due to lack of evidence. The case never resulted in further convictions. [http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2011/10/11/2011101101121.html] It stars [[Jang Keun-suk]] as Arthur Patterson and [[Jung Jin-young (actor)|Jung Jin-young]] as his lawyer. [[Song Joong-ki]] played the victim. The film had 531,068 admissions in South Korea nationwide.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Korean Film List 2009|url=http://www.koreanfilm.org/films2009.html#boxoffice|access-date=2021-04-26|website=www.koreanfilm.org}}</ref> '''''The Case of Itaewon Homicide''''' ({{Korean|hangul=이태원 살인사건}}) is a 2009 South Korean [[crime thriller film]], based on the true story of the [[Itaewon murder case]], which shocked Korea when Hongik college student Cho Jung-Pil was found dead at an [[Itaewon]] [[Burger King]] in 1997. The murder was investigated in 1997 by CID Agents J. Choi, D. Zeliff, T. Barnes and B. Crow. Two troubled U.S. teenagers—Arthur Patterson (the son of a former U.S. Army officer and Korean mother) and Edward Lee—became suspects and were convicted. Patterson was released a year later in a special amnesty and Lee was freed a year after that due to lack of evidence. The case never resulted in further convictions. [http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2011/10/11/2011101101121.html] It stars [[Jang Keun-suk]] as Arthur Patterson and [[Jung Jin-young (actor)|Jung Jin-young]] as his lawyer. [[Song Joong-ki]] played the victim. The film had 531,068 admissions in South Korea nationwide.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Korean Film List 2009|url=http://www.koreanfilm.org/films2009.html#boxoffice|access-date=2021-04-26|website=www.koreanfilm.org}}</ref>

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