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Kim Dae Jung, who stands next to people in the middle of caotic history! A young businessman Kim Dae Jung recognized the victims of ideology. He decided to be a politician to make his country where people's politic and democracy are rooted. The price of being leave from a guaranteed future and take the first step on a bumby road was kidnapping, death threats, imprisonment, and a death sentence that shook him to the core, but even in his final moments, when he was sentenced to death, Kim never wavered. "Democracy will be recovered. I believe in it." The life of President Kim Dae-jung, a death row inmate who survived from the throes of death, four parliamentary elections, and three unsuccessful presidential campaigns, is etched into the modern history of South Korea.

"A man sentenced to death stands with his people before history"

Credits

Kim Dae-jungSelf (archive footage)

Jang Hyun-sungNarrator / Kim Dae-jung (voice)

Jeon So-hyunLee Hee-ho (voice)

Kim Do-youngReenactor

Kim Jae-rokReenactor