Kang In-ho is a teacher who is forced to leave his family after the suicide of a former student he had been having an affair with. He settles in "Mujin" (a fictional city) where he finds employment as a teacher at a school for the hearing impaired.
On his first day of his new job, a young boy is struck and killed by a train, which seems to be the latest of a series of accidents as he discovers. He hears of a young girl who had recently committed suicide by jumping off a cliff.
The principal is a well respected member of the community, active in church and from a well established and respected family, extorts Kang into giving him money in return for securing the job.
Even though the school is government funded with 3.5 million dollars per year, the extorted money is put into the "school development fund".
Kang soon suspects things are not as they seem and discovers that the students, (both boys and girls) are being abused by the principle, an administrative head and a dormitory superintenden.
Kang's efforts to bring the crimes to the attention of the public are met with resistance by corrupt police, doctors and other business leaders under the principles control and testify in his favor. The defense lawyers further attempt to discredit Kang by bringing to light his past wrongdoings, including the affair with his former student who committed suicide. Compounding all, the financially strapped parents of the abused children agree to remain silent about the incident in exchange for money.
In the end, the three accused are sentenced to probation and are set free to return to the school.
Kang, humiliated at having his personal failures publicized and frustrated by the lack of justice decides to leave Mujin and return to his family in Seoul.
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--DCX (talk) 08:25, 24 March 2010 (UTC)
