The Sorrow and Joy of a Certain Judge

[Performance Introduction] The protagonist of this musical is the producer himself, a legal professional. The musical depicts the trajectory of a life lived with admiration for Kim Tae-hoon, a martyr who was the producer's high school classmate, and Judge Han Ki-taek, who was the producer's university classmate. In 1981, while a fourth-year economics student at Seoul National University, martyr Kim Tae-hoon died a righteous death at the Seoul National University library to expose the unjust deaths of victims of the Gwangju Uprising and to resist the Chun Doo-hwan regime. The late Judge Han Ki-taek was the first proponent of the 1988 Declaration for Judicial Democracy and practiced his motto of "conducting trials at the risk of one's life," but passed away in an unexpected accident in 2005. In this musical, the producer honors his two respected friends and, by elevating his own experiences of historical events and the sorrows and joys he felt as a legal professional into art, seeks to simultaneously express both the weighty mission of legal professionals and the pure beauty of art.