In the final scene of Memories of Murder (2003), Detective Park turns and looks directly into the camera, as if meeting the eyes of the killer. Director Bong Joon Ho included the moment with an unsettling idea: that the real-life murderer might one day watch the film, and that this gaze could break the barrier between fiction and reality. That idea took on a chilling weight in 2019, when DNA evidence identified Lee Choon-jae as the person responsible for the Hwaseong serial murders. During quest