In the final moments of Memories of Murder (2003), Detective Park slowly turns and looks straight into the camera, as if locking eyes with the killer himself. Director Bong Joon Ho added this haunting shot with an unsettling idea in mind: that the real murderer might one day watch the film, and that this gaze could pierce the boundary between fiction and reality. That idea took on a chilling weight in 2019, when DNA evidence identified Lee Choon-jae as the man responsible for the Hwaseong serial