{"id":94034,"date":"2026-07-21T19:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T19:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/94034\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T19:06:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T19:06:10","slug":"police-officer-who-inspired-the-roundup-film-fined-over-drunk-driving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/94034\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Officer Who Inspired ‘The Roundup’ Film Fined Over Drunk Driving"},"content":{"rendered":"

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An active-duty police officer, known as the real-life model for detective character “Ma Seok-do” in the action film “The Roundup,” was fined by a lower court on charges of drunk driving.<\/p>\n

Lee Sung-yeol, a single judge at the Seoul Central District Court’s Criminal Division 25, sentenced Yoon, a police inspector who was indicted on drunk driving charges under the Road Traffic Act, to a fine of 6 million won on the 21st.<\/p>\n

The court found Yoon guilty but said it imposed a fine after considering factors including that he admitted to the offense and showed remorse, and that he had no prior criminal record.<\/p>\n

Yoon, who worked at the Seoul Suseo Police Station, was indicted without detention in April on charges of causing a collision while driving after drinking near Gangnam Severance Hospital in Seoul on November 24 last year.<\/p>\n

At the time, Yoon’s blood alcohol level was above 0.08%, the threshold for license revocation. There were no casualties from the accident, and Yoon was relieved of his duties following the incident.<\/p>\n

Earlier, prosecutors had sought a prison sentence of one year and six months for Yoon at the closing trial.<\/p>\n

Appointed to the police force in 1997, Yoon primarily handled violent crime investigations. He is also known as the real-life motif for detective “Ma Seok-do,” the protagonist of “The Roundup.” Actor Ma Dong-seok, who starred in and produced “The Roundup,” is said to have conceived the work by researching the real-life experiences of detectives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Clipart Korea An active-duty police officer, known as the real-life model for detective character “Ma Seok-do” in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94035,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[12252,45794,49182,36359,49183,112,11023,49181],"class_list":["post-94034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-seoul","tag-drunk-driving","tag-ma-dong-seok","tag-ma-seok-do","tag-police-officer","tag-road-traffic-act","tag-seoul","tag-seoul-central-district-court","tag-the-roundup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}