The Case of Itaewon Homicide.

This story is based on the actual event. Happened in South Korea at 11 pm on the evening of April 3, 1997.

The Case of Itaewon Homicide

The Case of Itaewon Homicide is a 2009 South Korean film, based on a true story, which shocked Korea when college student Jo Jong-Pil was found dead at an Itaewon Burger King in 1997. Two teenagers, Arthur Patterson, the son of an American service member and Korean mother, and Edward Lee, became suspects but were eventually freed due lack of evidence and the case was never solved. At the time the military investigation team focused on Patterson as the most likely suspect. But prosecutors, acting on the results of a lie detector test and the theories of experts, indicted Lee for the crime and accused Patterson of merely possessing the weapon and destroying evidence. Lee was sentenced to 20 years in prison on appeal, but the Supreme Court pronounced him not guilty, saying “the statements of Patterson, who was with Lee, lack credibility.” -www.japancinema.net.com-

For futher information here is the summary of the incident and trial.

P/s : Bila tengok cerita ni, aku cuba letakkan diri, kalau aku one of victim's family member. I really pity him since he dead with unjustified. At first i wonder, why they kill Cho as they didn't know each other. But then, they said they killed him just for FUN. Its nonsense. How could you kill people, the innocent people just for fun ? They were insane. In my opinion, both of them were possible murderer. 

And I was happy as I noticed that South Korea reopen the case when this film got a wave attention from South Korean citizen.

Here is article showing that south korea reopen the Burger King murder file.