A stranger sent a message that said "Your photo has been stolen and needs to be confirmed" and attached a link, when you click on the link the moment you hit a phishing attack, the so-called "cyber hell" begins... Adapted from the documentary "Cyber Hell: Exposing Room N" (hereinafter referred to as "Cyber Hell"), which has brought an impact on Korean society, it has recently been launched on the streaming media platform Netflix, which has aroused public opinion in South Korea.
From the "Spark of Tracking Group", a college student group that initially tracked the "Room N" incident, to the reporters who launched formal interviews after receiving the report, to the internet police who tracked the prisoners, the documentary revealed the truth of the incident through interviews with 24 relevant people.
"From the very beginning of the planning, I wanted to make it a fascinating crime movie," said choi Jin-sung, the film's director Choi Jin-sung, adding that most of the previous documentaries about crime were documentaries about traditional crimes such as serial killings and antisocial personality disorder, while "Cyber Hell" recorded a new type of "cyber crime" incident, "As long as it is a Korean audience, I think they have a little understanding of the 'Room N' incident, but after watching this work, everyone will feel that the truth of the events we know is only the tip of the iceberg."
South Korean popular culture critic Jeong Deok-hyun believes that the society's attention to related topics and the cinematic presentation method have made the documentary well received in South Korea and abroad. According to the statistics of the online image content service ranking website "Flix Patrol", "Cyber Hell" was listed second in the Korean Netflix Movie List after its launch on May 18, and has since ranked first for three consecutive days.
Yonhap News Agency said that the documentary has also achieved good results in Vietnam, Indonesia, Singapore and other lists, ranking 18th in the world in the Netflix film rankings, "for the facts of the crime, the documentary is presented through monotonous animation in a metaphorical way, on the one hand, to prevent secondary injuries, on the other hand, it also reminds the audience of the seriousness of the problem, conveying the information that even if the main culprit of the 'Room N' incident is caught, the cyber crime is still staged in reality."
Many South Korean netizens commented that "the documentary allows us to understand their suffering from the perspective of the victims" "This is a good subject, I hope to continue to disclose social crimes in the film theme" "The documentary presents the worst type of crime in the 21st century, such as cybercrime, and it is resentful that this kind of incident may occur in reality at any time."