Gripping new South Korean crime drama A Bloody Lucky Day hits TV this week, that includes a cabbie who picks up a lethal fare.
The sequence sees Lee Sung-min play Oh Taek, a taxi driver who should play thoughts video games to evade dying by the hands of his serial-killing passenger Geum Hyuk-soo, performed by Yoo Yeon-seok.
But South Korea, paradoxically nicknamed “the land of the morning calm”, has been the scene of some surprisingly stunning real-life homicide circumstances. And one even includes a taxi.
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Raincoated Cannibal
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Yoo Young-chul started bludgeoning outdated people to dying of their houses in 2003, earlier than concentrating on intercourse staff in Seoul, killing them with a sledgehammer and dismembering their our bodies. He even ate their livers.
The psychopath was solely caught when a name he made to a therapeutic massage parlour – the place workers had already gone lacking – aroused suspicion.
Dubbed the ‘Raincoat Killer’ for the yellow mac he wore to point out police the place he’d buried his victims, Yoo admitted killing 26 folks in beneath a 12 months.
Partly motivated by a divorce, he stated: “Women shouldn’t be s****, and the rich should know what they’ve done.”
Now 53 and in jail, he prevented his 2005 dying sentence as executions had been suspended in 1997. Netflix documentary The Raincoat Killer charted Yoo’s crimes.
Twisted Blood Lust
When remorseless Jeong Nam-gyu was caught in 2006 after killing 14 folks he stated he’d really aimed to butcher 1,000 and “wanted to smell more blood because it smells good.”
In 2004 he had sexually assaulted and strangled two boys aged 12 and 13 in Bucheon. Later he broke into the houses of different victims in Seoul, killing them with knives or hammers.
Jeong, a fan of fictional killer Hannibal Lecter, was sentenced to dying in 2007 and would kill himself in jail in 2009.
A 30 Year Mystery
From 1986 to 1994, the town of Hwaseong was swept by a killing spree which noticed 14 women and girls murdered – strangled with their very own underwear.
Despite taking 40,000 fingerprints and inspecting 21,000 suspects, the crimes left police baffled.
It wasn’t till 2019 when DNA from the unique scenes was examined and threw up a match for ex-crane driver Lee Chun-jae, already in jail for the rape and homicide of his sister-in-law.
While he confessed, he wasn’t tried for the opposite murders – dominated to have been too way back.
A Jobless Maniac
During a 55-day killing spree in 1975 ex-convict Kim Dae-doo murdered 17 folks – as a result of he couldn’t get a job after popping out of jail for petty crimes and was “treated coldly”.
His random victims – typically killed with a meat cleaver – had been of all ages and included a toddler simply because he discovered its crying annoying.
A pair of bloody denims despatched to a laundry ultimately gave him away. The 27-year-old was convicted and hanged the next 12 months.
South Korea’s ‘Ted Bundy’
Callous Kang Ho-Sun killed 10 ladies within the metropolis of Ansan between 2005 and 2008 together with his spouse and mother-in-law in an arson assault so he may declare their insurance coverage insurance policies.
Many of his different victims had been picked up in karaoke bars or bus stops, with some evaluating his strategies to the infamous US serial killer Ted Bundy.
Found responsible of rape, homicide and arson in 2009, Kang was sentenced to dying. Now 54, he’s nonetheless on dying row in jail.
Butchering Burglar
Already convicted of killing a cop at 18, in 1986, Jeong Du-yeong started murdering once more when he was launched from jail.
While committing a string of robberies in 1999-2000 he slew eight folks together with a housemaid and a mom and son earlier than police related the dots.
Handed a dying sentence, the 55-year-old continues to be locked up in Daejeon jail.
The ‘True Crime’ Fanatic
In May 2023 Jung Yoo-jung, an unemployed 23-year-old true crime addict, determined to behave out her murderous fantasies.
She used an app to satisfy an English-language trainer, then brutally knifed the 26-year-old to dying at her dwelling in Busan, after turning up at school uniform. She stabbed the sufferer 100 occasions.
Jung lower up her physique, put it in a suitcase and took a taxi trip to dump the stays in a river. But the cabbie tipped off police about her blood-soaked baggage.
The killer confessed and was given a life sentence final November.
Rich Pickings
In 1993 Kim Gi-hwan, 26, shaped a murderous gang with six ex-prisoners and unemployed folks referred to as the Chijon Family. They all shared a hatred of the wealthy and vowed to kill them.
But throughout a 12 months of kidnap and homicide the gang killed each poor and the rich and even one in every of their very own members. They tortured victims, resorted to cannibalism and burnt or buried the our bodies.
Caught by police when one kidnap sufferer escaped, they had been sentenced to dying for 5 murders in 1995 and all executed.
* A Bloody Lucky Day is on Paramount+ from tomorrow (Feb 1)
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