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Allegations of rape and spy cams quickly followed when singer and entertainer Jung Joon-young confessed to secretly filming himself having sex with women and sharing the videos, without their knowledge or consent, in the Jung Joon-young KakaoTalk chatrooms, resulting in his resignation from the entertainment industry on March 12, 2019.
A copycat crime, known as the "Doctor's Room", (박사방; 博士房; baksabang) was operated by a man using the screen name Doctor (박사; Baksa, later identified as Cho Ju-bin), who is accused of blackmailing dozens of women, forcing them to take sexually exploitative videos, with some involving rape.
Yoo Young-chul murdered multiple people in Seoul between 2003 and 2004. He was arrested in July 2004, convicted of twenty murders, and sentenced to death.
The Itaewon murder took place on April 3, 1997, when 17-year-old Arthur Patterson killed 22-year-old Cho Jung-pil (Korean: 조중필; born 1974), a Hongik University student, by stabbing him at a Burger King in Itaewon, Seoul, South Korea.
Five children disappeared near Daegu and were found dead eleven years later.
Ten women and girls were killed in and around Hwaseong between 1986 and 1991.