Chol Soo Lee’s life was a series of trials, and that goes beyond the California courtrooms where his fate was out of his hands. A Korean immigrant whose 1973 framing for a crime he didn’t commit ...
On the surface, Julie Ha and Eugene Yi’s Free Chol Soo Lee tells the story of an infamous wrongful conviction and its long cultural aftermath. If you recognize the name, you know the story. In ...
In 1973 a 20-year-old Korean immigrant named Chol Soo Lee was arrested for a gangland shooting in San Francisco’s Chinatown. Although he would later be proven innocent, Chol Soo Lee was convicted and ...
Julie Ha and Eugene Yi's film about a wrongly incarcerated immigrant is both heartbreaking and uplifting. The late Korean-American immigrant Chol Soo Lee never got the chance to narrate Julie Ha and ...
“Free Chol Soo Lee” investigates “what went wrong” in 1973’s forgotten conviction of an innocent man
In 1973, Korean immigrant Chol Soo Lee was arrested for the murder of a Chinese gang member in San Francisco. He was convicted of the killing and sentence to life in prison, in part because of a false ...
Exclusive: Directors Julie Ha and Eugene Yi capture the legacy of racism within the American justice system. As we know all too well, freedom and justice aren’t for all in America. Sundance ...
Photo of Chol Soo Lee, wrongfully convicted standing in front of handcuffs used during a ceremony where each person spoke about their fate and placed them to display. On Saturday and Sunday at UCLA ...
Get an inside look at Free Chol Soo Lee from Independent Lens. Get an inside look at Free Chol Soo Lee from Independent Lens. After 10 years of fighting for his life inside California state prisons, ...
A young Korean American unlucky in life, Chol Soo Lee ignited a movement in the Asian American community nearly five decades ago, when he was racially profiled, wrongfully convicted of murder and sent ...
NPR's Alina Selyukh talks with Julie Ha, co-director of the documentary "Free Chol Soo Lee," about a Korean-American man's arrest for a murder he did not commit, and the effort to help him. In ...
A documentary about a wrongfully incarcerated Korean immigrant unearths an essential, buried history
K.W. Lee, a pioneering Asian American journalist, helped free Korean immigrant Chol Soo Lee with a series of investigative news articles in 1978. But he had never expected to outlive Chol Soo, who had ...
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