The documentary just released The echoes of survivors: within the tragedies of KoreaConsidered the follow-up a In the name of God: a holy betrayalrecords the voices of the survivors of four horrible tragedies that shook South Korea. From its first on August 15, the documentary has had a strong impact highlighted those who have experienced events that should never be repeated. Entering his second week, he still keeps point n. 2 in the “Top 10 Series” of Netflix Korea.
The global media have also praised the documentary. Time wrote, “As the series advances, reveals to what extent the people will go for money and exposes a company that gives priority to wealth above all else.” India Times described it as, “A clash with the most painful tragedies of Korea, discovering the truths that continue to weigh heavily on the life of the survivors.”
Domestic critics have also shared strong reactions. The critic Jung Deok-Hyun noticed, “The reality feels more cinematographic than the film itself. The more you go in these cases, the more you realize that they are not relics of the past, but that they still take place in the present.” The film journalist Jung S-Goodded, “The horror of how humans can be each other, the despair towards the corrupt authority and the fear that this could happen to anyone every time I wanted to look away, it was the courage of the survivors who forced me to continue looking at. Their courage must not be ignored.”
The eight episodes series examines four main Korean tragedies that remain unresolved. Survivors raise urgent warnings to prevent the story from repeating themselves as it exposes structural defects in society. Revisita the JMS cult still active and the resistance led by Maple against his powerful protectors, wonders how the authorities have enabled the crimes in the case of abuses for the brothers’ house, tells the survival and courage revealed in the Chijon accident and revisits the collapse of the Sampoong department, exposing how avidity has evaluated the money on human life.
Pd Cho Sung-Hyun said, “I know how difficult it was for the survivors to testify on the pains that they could not even share with their families. They spoke of their infernal lives to reveal the truth about our society. I hope many will look at and reflect on which structural changes we have to make.”
Sources: Nate
