Yoo Young-chul

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Korean spelling
Hangeul	유영철
Hanja	柳永哲
Revised Romanization	Yu Yeong-cheol
McCune- Reischauer	Yu Yŏngch'ŏl
See also : Korean name

Yoo Young-chul (born April 18, 1970 ) is a South Korean serial killer and cannibal . He confessed to the murders of 21 people - mostly prostitutes and affluent elderly men - and was convicted of 20 murders by the South Korean District Court (one indictment had to be dropped on procedural grounds).

Yoo burned three of his victims and maimed at least eleven of them. He claimed to have eaten the liver of some of his victims. As a motive for his actions, Yoo cited his hatred of rich people, women and society as a whole. He showed no remorse during the trial, but stressed that the victims deserved death.

He committed his actions in a period of only nine months, from September 2003 to his arrest in July 2004. He was sentenced to death on December 13, 2004. His case, which caused horror in South Korea, rekindled the debate over the death penalty. Although the death penalty has not been legally abolished, a moratorium has been in place since 1998 , meaning that no more death penalties are used. Before Yoo's arrest, it looked like the death penalty would be abolished, but popular support for the death penalty has risen again since then.

Presiding judge Hwang Chan-hyun justified the imposition of the death penalty on the grounds that such a series of murders was unprecedented in South Korea and constituted a very serious crime. The death penalty for Yoo is inevitable, given the enormous suffering he has brought on the families of the murdered and the entire nation.

filming

The 2008 South Korean thriller The Chaser is based on the deeds of Yoo Young-chul.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kim Rahn: Yoo Young-chul Included in World's 31 Serial Killers. In: The Korea Times . November 8, 2009, accessed September 5, 2010 . 

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Yoo is the family name here, Young-chul is the first name.