《熔炉》以真实发生在光州一所聋哑障碍人学校(光州广域市光山区三巨洞的聋哑人学校Inhwa学校)的事件为蓝本,描写了一起性暴力引发的悲剧,以及学校的教师和人权运动者一起力图揭开背后黑幕的故事,引起了社会上对弱势团体保护的讨论。
来自首尔的哑语美术老师姜仁浩(
孔刘 饰)来到雾津,应聘慈
爱聋哑人学校。天降大雾,他意外撞车,维修时邂逅了人权组织成员柔珍(
郑有美饰)。 姜仁浩妻子早亡,8岁女儿松儿天生哮喘由祖母照看,所以他不辞辛苦谋职养家。然而,双胞胎的校长与教导主任竟逼仁浩索贿5千万韩元,并美其名为学校发展基 金。同时,姜仁浩逐渐发现学校笼罩着一种紧张压抑的气氛,令人窒息。尤其有三个孩子引人关注:聪颖的金妍斗(金贤秀 饰)和贪吃的陈宥利(郑仁絮 饰)总是躲闪。全民秀(白承焕 饰)的弟弟
自杀身亡,他总是满脸淤青。下课后,仁浩还听到女厕所中有呼喊与哭泣,在门卫的阻拦下他未深究。之后。他意外目睹了校长行贿警察,教导员毒打民秀,宿导溺罚妍斗的行径。一个惊天的隐秘被慢慢揭开,真相令韩国震惊。
Kang In-ho (
Gong Yoo) is the newly appointed art teacher at Benevolence Academy, a
deaf school children in the fictional city of Mujin,
North Jeolla Province. He has a dark past - his wife was a high school student who committed suicide and his daughter is under the care of his mother. He is excited to teach his new students, yet the children are aloof and distant, trying to avoid running into him as much as possible. In-ho does not give up, however, trying to show the kids that he cares. When the children finally open up, In-ho faces the shocking and ugly truth about the school and what the students have been enduring in secret: the children are being physically and sexually abused by their teachers. When he decides to fight for the children’s rights and expose the crimes being committed at the school, In-ho teams up with human rights activist Seo Yoo-jin (
Jung Yu-mi). But he and Yoo-jin soon realize the school’s principal and teachers, and even the police, prosecutors and churches in the community are actually trying to cover up the truth.
[14][15][16][17] In addition to using "privileges of former post" (
Jeon-gwan ye-u) the accused do not hesitate to lie and bribe their way to get very light sentences.