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In 2009, novelist Kong Ji-young wrote a novel called "The Melting Pot," based on a violent case of a teacher sexually assaulting a disabled student at Inhwa School in Gwangju, South Korea. The amendment to the Sexual Assault Prevention and Control Act (also known as the "Melting Pot Act").
After the movie "Melting Pot" was released in 2011, millions of South Korean netizens demanded a new investigation and trial.
On the 37th day of the movie's release, the Sexual Assault Prevention Amendment Act, also known as the "Melting Pot Act," was overwhelmingly passed by the National Assembly with 207 votes and one abstention. Sexual assault of a physically challenged woman or a child under the age of 13 is punishable by up to life imprisonment, and the period for public prosecution has been abolished. The new law, which came into effect in July 2012, increases penalties for perpetrators who work in social welfare organizations or special education units.
The ultimate reality is that South Korea has passed the Melting Pot Act, which addresses the sexuality of young children, and that children in schools have found a safe place to live again with the help of the community, as well as psychiatric care.
But the principal, who died of cancer, escaped punishment, and several other teachers involved were sentenced to prison terms ranging from 11 to 12 years while Kim was also sentenced to wear an electronic tracking device for 10 years and to have her identity disclosed for 10 years. The criminals were brought to justice and justice was served.
So the melting pot case with all its twists and turns finally came to an end amid a public outcry.
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A mute art teacher from Seoul Kang In-ho (Kong Yoo) arrives in Mogjin and applies for a job at the Ja Ae School for the Deaf. When he crashes his car in a foggy day, he meets Yoo-jin (Jung Yu-mi), a member of a human rights organization, while repairing the car. Kang In-ho's wife died young and his 8-year-old daughter Song-il was born with asthma and is cared for by her grandmother, so he works hard to support his family. However, the twins' principal and director of the school force In-ho to ask for a 50 million won bribe, which they call a school development fund.
Meanwhile, Kang In-ho gradually realizes that the school is suffocating with a tense and depressing atmosphere. Three children in particular attract attention: the bright Kim Yeon Doo (Kim Hyun Soo) and the gluttonous Chan Yoo Ri (Jung In Woo), who is always evasive. Min Min Soo (Baek Seung Hwan), whose brother died by suicide, is always covered in bruises.
After class, In-ho also hears shouting and crying in the women's restroom, but he doesn't look into it when the doorman stops him. Afterwards, he accidentally witnesses the principal bribing the police, the instructor beating Min-soo, and the dormitory supervisor drowning Yeon-doo. A shocking hidden secret is slowly uncovered, and the truth shakes the whole of Korea.
"Furnace" is a drama movie based on the novel of the same name by Kong Jee-young, directed by Hwang Dong-hyuk and starring Kong Yoo, Jung Yoo-mi, Kim Hyun-soo and Kim Ji-young. The movie is based on the sexual violence that took place in a school for the deaf and mute handicapped in Gwangju between 2000 and 2004, depicting the tragedies that occurred during that time and the story of the school's teachers who, together with human rights activists, tried to uncover the dark secrets behind it.
The film was released on September 22, 2011 in South Korea. The movie has been called "the movie that changed the Korean nation" because of the social issues that were brought to its attention
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