“Investigation Scenes More Vivid Than Dramas”: Police Invite 180 Film and TV Creators

[Financial News] Police held a briefing for 180 popular-culture creators, including film and television writers and producers (PDs), introducing police work and the investigative process in major cases.
The Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency said it held the “2026 Police Story Academy” in its main auditorium on the 27th, with film and television writers and PDs in attendance.
The briefing was organized to help creators making works about the police understand police work and investigative processes, and accurately and realistically reflect them in their works.
The event was attended by major domestic film and television production companies and writers’ and directors’ groups, including Studio Dragon, which produced the dramas “Goblin” and “Mr. Sunshine,” AStory Co., Ltd., the production company behind “Signal” and “Kingdom,” SLL Joongang, and CJ ENM Studios.
Police officers who personally investigated major cases spoke at the event. Park Nam-gyu, a senior inspector with the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency’s Narcotics Crime Investigation Unit who took part in the investigation of the 2023 “Gangnam cram-school district drug-laced drink case,” and Kim Gyeong-hwan, a senior inspector with the agency’s Cybercrime Investigation Unit who led the investigation to apprehend an international hacking group responsible for losses of around 39 billion won last year, shared their investigative experience.
Also speaking were Lee Gyeong-ju, a senior inspector at the Hongik Police Box of Seoul Mapo Police Station, on community policing, and Jin Jun-hui, a sergeant with the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency’s Special Operations Unit, on the operation of police detection dogs.
The Police Story Academy began in 2017 after CJ ENM asked the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency to hold a briefing to help emerging film and television writers understand police work. This year marks its eighth edition.
A CJ ENM representative who attended the event said, “Hearing directly about field officers’ experiences helped us portray characters and incidents in our works more realistically,” adding, “I hope opportunities will continue to be provided for popular-culture creators to understand police work in the field and reflect it in their works.” 

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