{"id":676,"date":"2020-03-31T10:36:33","date_gmt":"2020-03-31T10:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/srilanka.factcrescendo.com\/english\/?p=676"},"modified":"2022-02-21T10:05:33","modified_gmt":"2022-02-21T10:05:33","slug":"fact-check-scene-from-korean-movie-flu-portrayed-as-scenes-from-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/srilanka.factcrescendo.com\/english\/fact-check-scene-from-korean-movie-flu-portrayed-as-scenes-from-italy\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Clip of a 2013 Korean movie \u201cFlu\u201d gets viral as visuals from Italy."},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Movie scenes related to virus outbreaks seem to be a common medium for spreading misinformation related to COVID19 on social media. Few days back, we unearthed the truth behind the mass graves in Italy with this fact check which turned out to be a scene from a movie called \u201cPandemic\u201d. On a similar note, a scene of a mass graveyard claiming to be footages from Italy was circulated on WhatsApp and Facebook which showed an entire Football stadium full of dead bodies and huge cranes carrying these dead bodies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Facebook page called \u201cHEY LOOSU LOVE YOU\u201d shared the video post given below, with the caption \u201cPlease stay at home… Please pray for Italy\u2026\u201d and during the video the word Italy kept on popping up giving an impression it was a scene from the current chaos in Italy, devastated by COVID19 pandemic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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In order to ascertain the origins of this video we did a Yandex reverse image search using the video\u2019s key frames and we were able to locate an article with the scenes from the above claim in relation to a Korean movie called \u201cFlu\u201d from 2013<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Directed by Kim Sung-su<\/a> \u201cFlu\u201d (Gamgi (2013)) movie plots around a lethal, airborne virus infecting the population of a South Korean city less than 20 kilometers from Seoul.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We saw a couple of instances where the Flu movie with English and Hindi subtitles had been uploaded to YouTube last week as the movie plot resembles to current spread of COVID19. While inspecting the movie we were able to locate the instance used in the viral clip of large cranes operating in a stadium. carrying body bags as below<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We also noticed the simulation video of how this scene was created using the below footage with wire-solver<\/p>\n\n\n\n