Director the late Kim Chang-min, who left after saving four precious lives through organ donation, has been revealed belatedly to have died as a result of an assault, drawing regret.
According to Yonhap News reports on the 31st, the late director Kim Chang-min was reportedly assaulted on Oct. 20 last year at a restaurant in Guri, Gyeonggi Province.
The late director Kim Chang-min reportedly went to a 24-hour restaurant because his son, who has autism spectrum disorder, suddenly said he wanted to eat pork cutlet. While he was eating at the restaurant, an argument and a physical fight broke out with a customer seated at another table over noise and other issues, and the late director Kim Chang-min was struck with a fist and fell to the floor.
Afterwards, the late director Kim Chang-min was moved to a nearby hospital after about an hour but ultimately died. The police identified a man, A, who assaulted the late director Kim Chang-min and applied for an arrest warrant, but the prosecution requested supplementation and returned it.
At the request of the bereaved family and after the prosecution requested supplementary investigation, the police refiled arrest warrants for two people including A on charges of injury resulting in death, but the Uijeongbu District Court Namyangju Branch reportedly dismissed the warrants, saying "the residence is stable and there is no risk of evidence tampering." In the end, A was handed over to the prosecution last week without being detained.
The bereaved family told Yonhap News, "There was a university hospital near the scene of the incident, but the transfer was delayed by an hour and the golden time was missed," and said in anger, "Although there were multiple suspects, an arrest warrant was initially applied for only one person, and only later were two people identified and warrants applied for, but those were also dismissed, and the investigation was sloppy and delayed for months."
Meanwhile, the late director Kim Chang-min won the director's award at the police human rights film festival in 2016 for 'No One's Daughter.' Afterwards, he actively worked as part of animation teams on works such as 'Captain Kim Chang-su', 'The Witch', 'The Drug King', 'The Pirates: The Last Royal Treasure', 'Rain and Your Story', and 'Firefighter'.
He collapsed from a cerebral hemorrhage on Oct. 20 and had been battling the illness when he was declared brain-dead on Nov. 7, and by donating organs after brain death he donated his heart, liver and both kidneys, saving four precious lives. As he had often told his family that he wanted to donate to save other lives at the end of his life, the family decided to donate, hoping he would do a good deed on his final journey.
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