The formal interview with So Jun-won began the following morning.
He had been held overnight at the Tongyeong facility under the terms of the standing warrant, which permitted detention without formal charge for an initial seventy-two-hour period. He had requested legal representation, which had been arranged. His representative, a capital attorney named Choi Byung-su who had traveled down by the evening express and arrived looking both competent and unsurprised by the circumstances, had met with his client for two hours before the interview began.
Kaien and I prepared in the room adjacent to the interview chamber. We had the files: the full documentation we had assembled over months, the Gwak Tae-su testimony, the Baek Seo-yeon account, the Director Han materials. We had, in other words, the complete structure of the case laid out before us, every link in the chain accounted for.
