Recently watched a 19-year-old revenge drama "Model Taxi", which attacked the reality of South Korea, which mainly tells the story of revenge instead of others and completes their own revenge plan. The drama is adapted from the high-scoring comic of the same name, starring Lee Di-hoon, Lee Seok, Kim Eui-sung, and Biao Yizhen.
Model taxi poster
Although it is very cool to watch the revenge plot, it is heart-wrenching to think of reality. Why is "Model Taxi" called a revenge drama that attacks Korean reality? The reason is that the plot is based on the theme of real-life cases in South Korea. The plot you see in the play can find real event archetypes in Korean society.
Model taxi
Cho Doo-soon Incident Corresponds to South Korea Cho Doo-soon Incident ("Suyuan Case")
In the play, Zhao Doo-soon was sentenced to life imprisonment for suspected sexual abuse of children, but successfully reduced his sentence on the grounds of mental illness and was released early, and the prisoner finally got into a model taxi driven by the male protagonist Kim Dodge, and was lynched (very violent and bloody) and disappeared.
Male protagonist lynching "Zhao Douchun"
The plot is adapted from the 2008 sensational South Korea "Cho Doo-soon Incident", although the plot looks very cool, but the reality is not a cool drama, the reality of Zhao Doo-shun has not been illegally sanctioned by justice, and the audience can only sanction this demon through the happy revenge of the plot.
The real-life Zhao Dooshun was released from prison on December 12, 2020, and according to South Korean media reports, Zhao Dooshun and his wife can receive 1.4 million won (about 7,000 yuan) of poverty allowance every month. It is ridiculous that an unforgivable beast can still receive poverty allowances from South Korea.
In 2008, Zhao Doushun was sentenced to 12 years in prison for sexually assaulting an 8-year-old girl, Na Ying, and causing serious personal injury to her. The verdict and disposition against him caused a shock in South Korean society. "Zhao Doushun" thus became synonymous with sex offenders who are protected by law from severe punishment.
The Maria/Fish Sauce Factory Incident corresponds to the Saltfield Slave Incident in Singan County
Maria, a female worker trafficked to the factory by traffickers, was violently treated and forced to work by her employers, and when she managed to escape, she asked the South Korean police for help on the way but was sent back to the factory. The Maria/Fish Sauce Factory incident in the plot is based on the 2014 Yantian slave incident in Sinan County, South Korea.
The Maria Factory Incident corresponds to the Saltfield Slave Incident in Singan County
The Park Yang-jin incident corresponds to a violent video of Leung Jin-ho
Liang Zhenhao's violent video was filmed in 2015 and exposed in 2018, pouring alcohol into employees to vomit and not allowing them to go to the toilet, slapping employees, forcing employees to kill live chickens with katanas, and so on.
Of course, there is the N room incident, etc., without exception, the plot has taken revenge on the initiator, although the plot is very cool, but the reality is not a cool drama, we may see the real events in South Korea corresponding to the plot hate the gums clenched, but in reality there is no or only slight punishment, such as the Cho Doo-shun incident.
Hopefully, in this world, all perpetrators will be punished as they deserve.