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Yadang: The Snitch

2025 South Korean crime film by Hwang Byeong-gug

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 23, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Yadang: The Snitch (Korean: 야당) is a 2025 South Korean crime film directed by Hwang Byeong-gug. The film follows broker Lee Kang-soo, ambitious prosecutor Koo Gwan-hee, and relentless narcotics detective Oh Sang-jae as their clashing motives intertwine in a high-stakes drug investigation. The cast also includes Ryu Kyung-soo and Chae Won-bin.

Editorial summary

“Yadang: The Snitch” enters the record as 2025 South Korean crime film by Hwang Byeong-gug. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Yadang, Snitch and South can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2025—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Yadang, Snitch and South.
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Why this record matters

“Yadang: The Snitch” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Yadang, Snitch and South provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 23, 2026. The first chronological checks are 2025.

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This entry incorporates text from “Yadang: The Snitch” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.