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1987: When the day comes is the Political thriller film.

This movies related about Korean modern history of democracy. In 1987, university student & pro-
democracy movement member Park Jong-chul is captured by the police. He is then tortured to death.
The police and government try to cover up the case of Park Jong-Chul, but the media and university
students try to reveal the truth.

The film begins in the winter of 1987, when an ambulance arrives in Namyang with a doctor and a nurse
under police surveillance. When doctor entered the room, a young man was lying dead. The cops are
order the doctor to keep him alive no matter what happens. Then the doctor uses strong injection of the
heart , but it was too late. After the student's death, the cops were really nervous. The police officers
interrupt Prosecutor Choi’s humble noodle dinner, demanding that he issue an order for immediate
cremation of the murdered student’s body to prevent an autopsy. Choi’s annoyance builds from him
being kept away from his bowl of noodles, to anger at the lack of respect for the law that the police
officers exhibit. He ultimately orders an immediate autopsy, defying the authoritarian regime. A fast-
paced cat-and-mouse game ensues, with government forces attempting to suppress media coverage
after Prosecutor Choi leaks the true cause of death to a journalist friend. As the death became known
through a newspaper report, however, Chief Park the highest police officer in charge of the case,
hurriedly announces that the student abruptly died of "heart failure" during police questioning. In fact,
the killing of the student protestor has its roots in historical events: Park Jong Chul was the real-world
victim of water torture while being interrogated by secret police. The prosecutor Choi who refused to
bow to government pressure, after being fired, leaves evidence from the autopsy to Yoon Sang-sam, a
reporter hoping to investigate the story despite a country-wide regulation against reporting on the
death. Though authorities initially suppressed Park’s cause of death, journalists gets and reports on
news about an autopsy later revealed bruises—evidence of torture.

After that Chief Park suggested other authorities to cut the tail. It means false prosecute the lower
officials officers. With the public aware that the student was killed by his interrogators, Commissioner
Park chooses two detectives to take the full blame for the crime. He promises one patsy, the loyal
detective Jo Han-kyung, that he will serve a reduced sentence for involuntary manslaughter rather than
murder, but is unable to fulfill this promise, leading to a number of intense altercations between Jo and
his colleagues when they visit him at the prison. Prison guard Han Byung-yong, who overhears some of
these exchanges, is revealed to be in contact with high-ranking political activists, and attempts to
convince his warden to disclose the records from the visits, which provide incriminating evidence of a
cover-up. The information finds its way to the Catholic Priests' Association for Justice, who make a public
statement that Park Jong-chul was killed during interrogation by the two detectives arrested along with
three others, and Commissioner Park had direct oversight and attempted to cover up the killing. Then
historic movement culminating in the June Democracy Movement or the June Struggle of 1987.

"1987" is a somber reminder that freedom isn't free.