"Actors Stepped in Dog's Dung"... $28.9 Million in Chinese Capital in 'The Assassins'?

People Power Party Representative Joo Jin-woo cited a media report claiming that 40 billion won in Chinese capital went into the production process of the movie 'The Assassins', which deals with the shooting of First Lady Yuk Young-su, and stated that he will thoroughly investigate related suspicions during this parliamentary audit.

Citing media reports that CLSA Capital, a 100% subsidiary of China's CITIC Group, invested 40 billion won in the production company Hive Media Corp through a YouTube broadcast, Representative Joo emphasized the possibility of Chinese capital intervening behind the scenes.

Representative Joo claimed, "When you talk about the CITIC Group, they are all places that receive instructions and command from the Chinese Communist Party," adding, "We must also keep in mind the possibility that they are masquerading as investment while pulling strings from behind as Chinese capital."

He then condemned the film, saying, "They captured First Lady Yuk Young-su in the movie in the most unfilial way," and asked, "Isn't it unfilial and perverted in itself to dare to conceive a frame suggesting that the father killed the mother?"

The movie 'The Assassins' is themed around the 1974 shooting of First Lady Yuk Young-su and traces the suspicions and background surrounding the incident.

Although the movie does not explicitly point out the mastermind behind the shooting of First Lady Yuk Young-su, it has sparked controversy over historical distortion as it includes scenes where some characters in the play raise the possibility that the administration of then-President Park Chung-hee or the Korean Central Intelligence Agency planned the incident.

Regarding this, Dongyang University Professor Chin Jong-kwon criticized on social media, "I praise the ability of the director who managed to cast top-tier actors representing South Korea one after another with a shoddy conspiracy theory scenario at the level of a silkworm pupa IQ," adding, "Should we just understand this as an incident where the actors accidentally stepped in dog's dung?"

Movie YouTuber 'G-Movie', which has 4.17 million subscribers, was found to have deleted videos related to the movie.

However, the side of G-Movie has not released any separate official stance regarding the deletion of the videos.

As the controversy continued, the production company drew a line, stating, "There is absolutely no truth to Chinese capital flowing into our company and the production and investment process of the movie."

Releasing an official statement, the production company denied the related suspicions, stating that 'The Assassins' is a work independently planned and produced led by domestic production staff and creators based on domestic capital.

Reported by Jung Da-eun | Video by Chang Yu-jin | Design by Yang Hye-min | Produced by SBS Digital News
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