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The Village Chief is the main antagonist of the 2015 South Korea period horror-thriller film The Piper. He is a control-freak and greedy village chief of a remote mountain village who tries his best to keep his people from finding out the war is over to maintain his grip on the people. He is based on the Mayor of Hemlin.
Biography[]
During the Korean War, the Village Chief and his villagers escaped the incoming Chinese troops coming at their village and established a new village in the mountain. They kept the lepers of the village in a cave only for them to be devoured by a horde of vicious rats in the mountain area and only the village shaman could keep the rats at bay. During this time, the village chief started developing control-freak tendency and wanted his people to under his grip a whole time.
After the war is over, a gentle wandering piper named Woo-ryong with his son make a journey to Seoul to seek an American Doctor who can cure his son illness. They stumps upon the remote mountain village and meet the village chief. When the piper reveals that the war is over, the village chief is appalled with the news at if the villagers found out that the war is over, they would go back to the old village or migrate to the big cities. Therefore, he tells the father and son to keep the new as a secret. He then tells them the problem with the rats, the village is facing and the shaman of the village who responsible for keeping the rats at bay has long dead. As the duo of father and son walks through the village, Woo-ryong develops a crush on the widow of the village named Mi-sook who lost her husband and child from the war
Woo-ryong volunteers to get rid of the rat in exchange for payment worth a price of a pig to pay for his son's medical treatment. Woo-ryong made a special powder to lure the rats in the cave and successfully traps them. At the same time, Mi-sook, who has been forced by the chief to become the new village shaman and she develops romantic relationship with Woo-ryong.
Out of petty greed, the village chief plots with his son, Nam-soo, to not reward the Piper for getting rid of the rats out of and Nam-soo agrees with the plan out of jealousy with Woo-ryong for grating Mi-sook's affection. Taking advantage on the ignorance of the villagers, they create doubt in the mind of the male villagers making them believe that Woo-ryong is a communist spy who brought the rats with him. At a village meeting, the chief says he is going to pay the piper but a dead cat is found. Proof the chief says that the rats are back. He holds up Woo-ryung's English note about the American Doctor in Seoul and says its spying material; it simply reads "Kiss my ass, monkey" as a cruel joke. Woo-ryung reaches for the money but Nam-soo chops off two of his fingers with a knife. The villagers turn on Woo-ryung and Young-nam, even Mi-sook condemns them.
As the villagers get ready to throw Woo-ryung and his son out, Mi-sook returns in a shamanic trance but stabbed in the stomach. She tells the villagers that on a day without sun they will all die and their children might live or die. It is revealed that the original shaman was killed due to the prophecy she made which the same words Mi-sook speaks up causing her to be locked up and burnt alive by the fearful villagers. Mi-sook then dies from her wounds.
Before they leave, the Chief puts two poisoned rice-balls in Woo-ryung's knapsack to kill him and his son to prevent the father and son from telling anyone about the location of the village. The injured piper falls asleep while his son sneaks back to the village to retrieve his father's pipe from the Chief's house. On the way back, Young-nam ate one of the poisoned rice-balls out of hunger and dies. Seeing his son died strips Woo-ryung all of his sanity and he returns to the village to seek revenge after cremating his son.
He re-opens the caves and uses his special powder again to lure the rats into the village to devour the villagers. Saving the chief for last, Woo-ryung confronts him about his misdeeds and the village chief hypocritically yells at Woo-ryung for having no conscience only for the rats to come at him and devour him alive.
It is turned out that the rats only devour the adults of the village, leaving only the children alive. The insane Woo-ryung then dresses as a clown and uses his pipe to lure the children into the cave full of rats and locks them inside, enabling the rats to feast on the children of the village.