The Crucible (2011 Korean film)/YMMV

• Complete Monster: Park Bo-hyeon and the Lee twins (who all beat and sexually abuse their deaf students) and Yun Ja-ae, who dishes out savage beatings bordering on torture to the children. If that wasn't enough, their clear lack of repentance and successful manipulation of the trial proceedings to get themselves off the hook, including Yun intimidating Min-su's frail grandmother into settling outside of court, which she then taunts Yu-jin with, should convince you.
• Some Anvils Need to Be Dropped: And considering the recent ban on corporal punishment in South Korean schools, the scrapping of the statute of limitations on the reporting of sex crimes and the introduction of longer minimum sentences as part of overhaul on legislation surrounding abuse, the anvils seem to be having the desired effect.
• Values Dissonance: Western audiences may be confused by In-ho's slow response to the obvious abuses occurring around him, but as corporal punishment was legal and widespread in South Korean schools until very recently, he's bound to be slow on the uptake.

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