The 23-year-old woman in South Korea was obsessed with crime shows and hunted for victims on a tutoring app.

A South Korean court has given a life sentence to a true crime fan who told police she murdered a stranger “out of curiosity”.

Jung Yoo-jung, 23, had been obsessed with crime shows and novels and scored highly on psychopath tests, police said.

Fixated with the idea of “trying out a murder”, she used an app to meet an English-language teacher, stabbing her to death at her home in May.

The brutal killing shocked South Korea.

Prosecutors had asked for the death penalty - a request typically reserved for the gravest of offences.

  • interceder270@lemmy.world
    110·
    1 year ago

    Is it just me, or does South Korean culture seem to be far behind the western world it’s trying to emulate?

    • OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml
      41·
      1 year ago

      2 things -

      1. Lots of South Koreans openly oppose the Western culture, so that point is dead

      2. If you think this doesn’t happen in the West, you’re closing your eyes like the Binance compliance officers

      Source: I live in SK outside of a foreigner hotspot

      • interceder270@lemmy.world
        17·
        1 year ago

        Lots of South Koreans openly oppose the Western culture, so that point is dead

        I don’t see it.

        If you think this doesn’t happen in the West, you’re closing your eyes like the Binance compliance officers

        It’s more like a prevalence thing stemming from their culture.