mentally disabled man who witnessed Ryu burying his sister, and begins to piece together the identities of Ryu and Yeong-mi. Ryu, armed with a baseball bat, locates the organ traffickers and murders them, receiving a stab wound in the process. Meanwhile, Dong-jin finds Yeong-mi and tortures her with electricity, also killing a deliveryman who comes to her apartment. She apologizes for Yu-sun's death but warns Dong-jin that her terrorist friends will kill him if she dies. Unfazed, Dong-jin electrocutes her. Ryu returns to Yeong-mi's apartment and sees the police removing her corpse. Dong-jin knocks Ryu unconscious with a booby trap. He takes Ryu to the riverbed where his daughter died and drags him into the water. Dong-jin slashes Ryu's achilles tendons and waits for him to drown. After Dong-jin dismembers Ryu's corpse, Yeong-mi's anarchist associates arrive and stab Dong-jin, where they pin a note to his chest with a knife, and leave him to die. Cast Song Kang-ho as Park Dong-jin, Yu-sun's father and the president of a manufacturing company who is a friend of Ryu's employers Shin Ha-kyun as Ryu, a deaf-mute factory worker trying to pay his sister's hospital bills Bae Doona as Cha Yeong-mi, Ryu's girlfriend of several years Han Bo-bae as Yu-sun, Dong-jin's young daughter Im Ji-eun as Ryu's sister, who is in need of a kidney transplant Lee Dae-yeon as Choi, the investigator hired by Dong-jin Ryoo Seung-bum as a mentally disabled person at the lake Ryoo Seung-wan as a food delivery person at Cha's apartment Oh Kwang-rok as an anarchist Lee Kan-hee as Park Dong-jin's ex-wife Jung Jae-young as the husband of Dong-jin's ex-wife Reception Box office Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance opened in South Korea on March 29, 2002 and had a worldwide box office gross of . The film received a low-profile North American theatrical release from Tartan Films beginning August 19, 2005, over three years after it debuted in South Korea. In its opening weekend, it collected ( per screen) from three New York City theaters. It played on six screens at its most widespread, and its total North American box office take was . Critical response On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 54% based on 56 reviews, with an average rating of 6.16/10. The website's critical consensus reads: "Though Park directs with stylistic flair, this revenge thriller is more excessively gruesome than thrilling."