Whistle Blower (film)
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Whistle Blower (Korean: 제보자; RR: Jeboja) is a 2014 South Korean film directed by Yim Soon-rye.[1][2][3][4]
Whistle Blower | |
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Directed by | Yim Soon-rye |
Written by | Lee Chun-hyeong |
Produced by | Lee Choon-yeon Nam Jung-il |
Starring | Park Hae-il Yoo Yeon-seok Lee Geung-young |
Edited by | Kim Sun-min |
Music by | Lee Jun-oh |
Production company | Watermelon Pictures |
Distributed by | Megabox Plus M M-Line Distribution |
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Running time | 114 minutes |
Country | South Korea |
Language | Korean |
Though fictionalized, the film is based on real-life scientist Hwang Woo-suk, who was at the center of one of the largest investigations of scientific fraud, named the Hwang affair, in recent memory.[5][6] Hwang, then a professor of biotechnology at Seoul National University (SNU), gained international renown in 2004 after claiming that he had successfully carried out experiments cloning human embryonic stem cells. In 2005, an anonymous tip from whistleblower Ryu Young-joon, a former researcher at Hwang's lab, led to MBC program Producer's Note uncovering Hwang's ethical violations and fabricated data, which was confirmed by an SNU investigative panel in 2006.[7][8] Hwang's research was discredited and in 2009, a South Korean court convicted him of embezzlement and bioethical violations.[9][10][11]