Film adaptation Ī film adaptation also titled The Crucible ( Korean: 도가니 RR: Do-ga-ni), was released in 2011 starring Gong Yoo as Kang In-ho and Jung Yu-mi as Seo Yoo-jin. Kang, humiliated at having his personal failures publicized and frustrated by the lack of justice, decides to leave Mujin and return to his family in Seoul. In the end, the three accused are sentenced to probation and set free to return to the school. The Crucible is a study in the mass hysteria which led to the 1692 Salem witchcraft trials, concentrating on the fate of some of the key figures caught up. Compounding all, the financially strapped parents of the abused students agree to remain silent about the incidents in exchange for money. When the case comes to trial, the defense lawyers further attempt to discredit Kang by bringing to light his past misdeeds, including the affair with his former student who committed suicide. Kang's efforts to bring the crimes to the attention of the public are met with resistance by corrupt police, doctors and other business leaders. Kang soon suspects things are not as they seem and discovers that the students, (both boys and girls) are being abused by the principal (a powerful and highly respected member of the community), an administrative head and a dormitory superintendent. He hears of a young girl who had recently committed suicide by jumping off a cliff. On the first day of his new job, a young boy is struck and killed by a train, the latest of a series of accidents, he soon discovers. He settles in Mujin (a fictional city) where he finds employment as a teacher at a school for the hearing impaired.

Kang In-ho is a teacher from Seoul that teach deaf children how to do art. John Proctor is one of the most significant and vital characters of The Crucible, written by Arthur Miller in 1952 and released in 1953. The title was taken from Arthur Miller's play of the same name. The Crucible (도가니) is a 2009 novel by Gong Ji-Young (공지영) based on an actual case of mass sexual abuse at the Gwangju Inhwa School school for the deaf in South Korea.

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