SUWON, July 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Police on Thursday closed the country’s longest-standing cold case involving a series of brutal rapes and murders that began more than three decades ago. Gyeonggi Nambu Provincial Police Agency concluded in a briefing that Lee Chun-jae killed 14 women, most of them rape-murder cases, and raped nine others, wrapping [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — A serial rape and murder case that gripped South Korea in the 1980s was so mysterious and ghastly that it has inspired a host of TV shows and movies, including, most notably, a feature film by Cannes-winning director Bong Joon-ho. “Memories of Murder,” released in 2003, was then-novice director [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — An advancement in DNA analysis technology has served as the key driver in identifying the prime suspect in South Korea’s worst serial murder case for the first time in about 30 years. A 56-year-old-man, now in jail, is suspected of involvement in at least three of the deaths of [...]