남영동1985 | National Security
개봉 Released
감독 Directed by
역사배경 History
주연 Cast
2012.11.22
장지영 Chung Ji-young
전두환 정권 Chun Doo-hwan regime
민주화운동가 김근태 Democracy activist Kim Geun-tae
박원상 Park Won-sang
이경영 Lee Geung-young
National Security is based on the memoir by Kim Geun-tae, a democracy activist who was kidnapped and tortured by national police inspector Lee Geun-an for 22 days in 1985 during the Chun Doo-hwan regime.
The so-called Namyeong-dong Anti-communist Investigation Office was built in October, 1976, as a five-story building above ground, extended to seven floors in 1983. At the time of its construction, the signboard of the building was International Marine Research Institute, intended to hide the true identity of the site from any passers-by as it shared a wall with Namyeon Station on Subway line 1.
Victims were blindfolded and manhandled into a car in the dead of the night, subsequently dragged to the Namyeong-dong Office unnoticed an subjeect to severe tortures by means of water torture and electric shocks.
Up until the late 1990s, the Namyeong-dong Office was still used for investigation. It was not until the year 2005 that the Human Rights Center of the National Police Agency was established there that the building ceased to function as a venue of investigation.
After the Human Rights Center moved in 2018, and the Korea Democracy Foundation took over the responsibility to manage and operate the Namyeong-dong office building, where they founded the Democracy and Human Rights Memorial Hall.
The National Museum of Democracy and Human Rights aims to commemorate the history of the democratization movement and appreciate the values of democracy and human rights, and is scheduled to open in 2024.
