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[Tiger Beer]

Anyone hear about this? One of my students said there is some new korean movie out now about some famous serial killer in korea during the s who killed alot of women.. i'd never heard of such a thing before.. but thats what a student was saying.. anyone hear of this guy or his story.. or know anything about it.. for some reason i never really imagined serial killers existing in korea.. hmm.. whats the real facts on this.. or was my stduent not quite properly explaining the movie and had fiction mixed with facts?

[itaewonguy]

there have been alot of whackos coming out of korea!
but you know koreans they dont like to gamourise like we do, who has never heard of MANSON, DARMER.. In korea they had the MANSON killer type but in the late 70's this cult religious freak killed about 20 people!
there have been others, many of the decades, I just forgot the stories,
most young koreans wouldnt even know about it, probably most koreans wouldnt, you know with korean press and all... but I had a good souce, this guy knew all about seriel killers, from around the world, and In korea!
there have been a lot of brutal things in korea,inthe world for that fact..
but the world hasnt really seen darhmer,manson since the 70-80's and thats probably the world over.. of course we still have our nut cases..
like that korean man last year,kidnapping his 4 year old girl, neighbour, then chopping her up into pieces, then cooking her and pulling a darmer!
the cops asked him why he did it, he responded! CUNYANG!!
that had me messed up for weeks after seeing that on TV and papers!
probably because my daughter was 4 at the time...
poor parents!... having your child die is one thing, but having your child die that one is another!!

[sickboy]

itaewon...

Was that example in Bundang?

[indiercj]

The movie is called "Memories Of Murder" and is hot on the box office. It drawing more people than the crappy X2(no offence but the first one was waaaay better IMHO) right now. It is the best korean movie i have seen in years. Better than JSA.

The Hwa Sung serial killer killed 11 people from 1986 to 1996, all women. It is the most famous unsolved mystery in Korea. There's a 50 million won for prize on him! So anyone interested might give a try.

The killer Itaewonguy is talking about is Choi In Gu(40). He kidnapped and then killed the girl right away. He told the police he was going to ask her parents 5 m won.

[The Batman]

[Dan]

yeah i watched that before i left korea. very good mix of funny and serious. and indie, the movie didn't mention it happened over 10 years, thought it was over 1 year

[marsha marsha marsha]

Last year there were 2 young guys in Seoul with a big credit card debt. They made their car up like a taxi and went around picking up girls late at night (probably drunk girls) and demanding their ATM cards and codes. Then they beat them to death with a bat and stored them in the trunk.

I was teaching lawyers at the time and it was the hot topic in class. Of course, it wasn't in any English language paper in Korea. Would hate for there to be anything negative about such a perfect country. Then no foreigners would want to go there.

[Zyzyfer]

[crusher_of_heads]

[the_beaver]

[Chet Wautlands]

That flick has some really creepy scenes.

[Frankly Mr Shankly]

[Frankly Mr Shankly]

[RACETRAITOR]

[HapKi]

Mr. Bum-Kon Woo, a Korean in 1982, carried out the largest known "spree killing" in modern history, though I don't think that is what people are talking about here. Number 2 on the list, Mr. Seung-hui Cho of the Virginia Tech shootings.

Memories of Murder (살인의 추억) is a good movie, with an unsolved ending. Kinda rare for murder mysteries