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''The King of Pigs'' (돼지의 왕; Dwaejiui wang) is a 2011 animated film from Korea, written and directed by Creator/YeonSangHo. Failed businessman Kyung-min has just murdered his wife and decides to meet up with his best friend from middle school, struggling writer Jong-suk, whom he hasn't seen in 15 years.

In middle school Jong-suk and Kyung-min were at the bottom of the pecking order as the 'pigs', constantly tormented by their richer classmates, the 'dogs'.

All this seemed to change with the arrival of a new classmate, Kim Chul, who stood up to the 'dogs'. He took Jong-suk and Kyung-min under his wing, and became the titular 'King of the Pigs'.

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!!The film provides examples of:

* AdultsAreUseless: The teachers are corrupt and implied to be on the rich kids side.
* AnimalMotifs: Pigs and dogs.
* AssholeVictim: The 'dogs' like Gang Min weren't safe from getting beaten either. They got their own beatings as well by their own seniors whenever they disappointed them. The narrator even once says Gang Min's senior, Song Seok-eun, gave him a bigger beatdown than Kim Chul did, and that he was actually hospitalized from it.
* BullyHunter: Kim Chul. Deconstructed as his actions frequently only make things worse.
* BullyMagnet: Kyung-min was this in his middle school days because of how weak he was.
* CharacterDevelopment: [[spoiler:Kim Chul actually realizes how stupid it is to kill yourself just to prove a point and spite some bullies during graduation. He realizes that it'll pass and he has to be strong, swallow his pride and go back to school so that he can help his mother when he grows up.]]
* CorruptTheCutie: Kyung-min was a shy young boy that gets bullied around a lot, and tries to be friendly with the new students such as Kim Chul and Chan-young. Until befriending Kim Chul influenced him in taking part of [[spoiler:murdering a cat]] and even if he became a successful businessman, it didn't last long and the movie opens with him murdering his wife.
* CreatorCameo: The director himself appears as one of the students in one shot.
* DeathOfAChild: [[spoiler:Kim Chul, a middle schooler, dies at the end.]]
* DisappearedDad: Averted. Kim Chul and his mother find his father's body in the morgue.
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Kim Chul decided not to go through with his suicide, and only wanted to scare them to be accepted back to school. But Jong-suk pushed him off with Kyung-min as a witness. Kyung-min's business ended in failure and went with a MurderSuicide from the guilt after all these years to the present. Finally Jong-suk is left to a sobbing mess.]]
* DrivenToSuicide:
** [[spoiler:Kyung-min in the ending, since his business ended in failure, he's in heavy debt, and ultimately decides to finish what Kim Chul couldn't do.]]
** What ''seems'' to be the case with [[spoiler:Kim Chul, until it's revealed that Jong-suk pushed him off just as he changes his mind]].
* EvilVersusEvil: [[VillainProtagonist Kyung-min, Kim Chul and Jong-suk]] are hardly better than the bullies, no matter how much you may empathize with them for the bullying they get (or Kim Chul for fighting back the bullies only to be mislabeled as a bully himself), since they slaughter an innocent cat just to make themselves "stronger".
* FatBastard: Gang Min looks chubby but is most antagonistic to Jong-suk and Kyung-min.
* HateSink: The 'dogs'. None of them have any redeeming or sympathetic qualities.
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: [[spoiler:Jong-suk]].
* JerkassToOne: Gang Min and the 'dogs' bullied everyone below their status, but Kyung-min had it the worst than any other student.
* KarmaHoudini: Gang Min. No matter how much Kim Chul gives him a taste of his own medicine, he always gets punished for it while Gang Min gets away scot-free by the teachers.
* KidsAreCruel: Taken to disturbingly realistic heights.
* MeanBoss: Jong-suk's boss in the beginning berates him for his failure as a ghostwriter.
* MurderSuicide: [[spoiler:Kyung-min murders his wife and then takes his own life at the end of the film.]].
* NerdyBully: Gang Min's right-hand man An Jung-hue wears glasses but is no less violent and sadistic than he is.
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: When Kyung-min offers the new student, Chan-young, a meat dish that he couldn't finish, the result is that Chan-young gets stomach problems and goes to the restroom, where the bullies pour a bucket of urine on him.
* TheNineties: Assuming the movie is set in 2011, the same year it was released, then the flashback sequences would've taken place in 1996, considering they're from 15 years ago. Walkmans being shown as the newest thing and fashion towards Gap jeans can further verify this.
** At some point in the movie, Jong-suk compares Kim Chul to Warrior more than Hulk. This is a reference to the Wrestling/WrestleMania VI WWE event (formerly WWF) between the two wrestlers that took place in 1990, which can confirm the past events don't take place any earlier than that.
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: Double subverted. [[spoiler:Kim Chul pulls back on committing suicide to traumatize the students for being bullies, but still plans on standing on the roof to invoke the fear without actually jumping off. Unfortunately, Jong-suk pushes him and Kim Chul ends up dying.]]
* TheReveal: [[spoiler:Kim Chul wanted to commit suicide in public on graduation day to spite the bullies but couldn't go through with it. A desperate Jong-suk pushed him. Kyung-min was the only one who saw this]].
* SonOfAWhore: Kim Chul, his mother is a prostitute at a brothel that Kyung-min's father happens to be the owner of.
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: Kim Chul advocates that to deal with the world with cruel people, you got to be even crueler than them. He also encourages Jong-suk and Kyung-min to [[spoiler:stab a cat to death, and huff paint.]]
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: All the 'dogs' like Gang Min are from rich families and earned respect from teachers for their high grades. Anything that happens to them are taken more seriously than if the same stuff happened to the 'pigs'.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: After [[spoiler:Kim Chul's death, the friendship between Kyung-min and Jong-suk fall apart. Never once talk to each other for the remaining middle school years. It wasn't until 15 years later when they finally see each other again.]]
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Kim Chul's mother is not spoken again [[spoiler: or her reaction of dealing two suicides.]]
* WithFriendsLikeThese: [[spoiler:Jong-suk murders Kim Chul by pushing him off the edge of a building, even though they're supposed to be friends]].
* WorldOfJerkass: Nearly every character is a bully and/or is bullied, even the main leads don't come off smelling like roses as they try to one-up the ones that wrong them by even going so far to [[spoiler:stab a cat to death.]] The closest the movie has of a nice character is Chan-young but even he had a moment of attempting to attack a bully before getting caught and beaten up.
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