Salah satu alasan utama film ini mencapai status legendaris adalah karena setelah rilis, publik Korea Selatan geram. Mereka menekan pemerintah untuk membuka kembali kasus tersebut. Hasilnya, undang-undang baru disahkan:
To truly appreciate the weight of "Silenced," one must understand the reality it depicts. The film is based on events that took place at the Gwangju Inhwa School in the early 2000s.
Directed by Hwang Dong-hyuk, who would later gain global fame for creating Squid Game , "Silenced" is based on the 2009 novel The Crucible by Gong Ji-young, which in turn was inspired by true events that occurred at Gwangju Inhwa School for the hearing-impaired.
This pressure led the South Korean National Assembly to pass the in late 2011. The landmark legislation:
