Yoo Hae-jin was Korea's favorite everyman. Then came 'The Assassin(s)'

It is not every day that an actor needs police protection over a movie role. Yoo Hae-jin is finding out what that’s like. On Oct. 6, police said they had given the 56-year-old a smartwatch to call for help in an emergency and stepped up patrols near his home. Two days earlier, dozens of protesters had gathered outside his house in northern Seoul. Yoo's offense, as it were, was starring in "The Assassin(s)," a journalism thriller that reimagines the 1974 shooting death of then-first lady Yuk Youn