The Scarlet Letter is a 2004 South Korean erotic thriller film about a police detective who investigates a murder case while struggling to hang onto his relationships with his wife and mistress.

The film is based on novelist Kim Young-ha's short stories A Meditation On Mirror and Photo Shop Murder.

"[6] It is speculated her demanding role and its public scrutiny, had compounded and overlapped with an existing variety of family, financial, career, and insomnia issues.

Her severe depression ended in suicide in February 2005,[7] and the tragic conclusion has since become the central focus in popular perception and interpretation of the film, this particular one being her last.

He subsequently cast Sung Hyun-ah, who rose to prominence with her role in The Scarlet Letter, as the heroine in his Time.