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him in turn. Due to these circumstances, he felt no affection towards his family members, and repeatedly claimed that he could not wait to become an adult so he could leave them. Kim eventually dropped out of middle school and started working up until the age of 20, when he finally left the family household. However, his life did not proceed smoothly as the first woman he loved dearly later left him for his best friend, causing him to harbor hostile feelings towards women as a whole. While acquaintances generally described him as a nice and gentle person, they would also note that has very easily angered and would get violent when drunk.
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approximately a month before his scheduled wedding, the pair and a younger friend were drinking at the pub when Park started criticizing Kim for talking on the phone for a prolonged period of time. Infuriated by her reprimands, the drunken Kim told their friend to leave, and after he did, he took hold of Park and smashed her head a dozen times against a
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might be an acquaintance of the victim. After they started looking into Park's associates, authorities eventually came across Kim, who was known to frequent the establishment. Not long after, they received a tip from the young man Kim had attempted to convince to dispose of Seong's corpse, accusing him of this and the 1994 murder.
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justice, Kim Young-ran confirmed the lower courts' ruling, effectively finalizing the death penalty. This was considered a unique decision, as not only was it a much quicker affirmation of a death sentence by the
Supreme Court (which usually take a year or more), but also because Justice Kim was an
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Initially, he denied all charges against him, but after being presented with an abundance of evidence, Kim confessed to all three murders. Before doing so, he asked that he be permitted a phone call to his fiancรฉe in China, where he told her to consider him "dead" and that she forget that they ever
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report was filed. After eventually returning to the house, Kim asked a younger acquaintance from his hometown to help dispose of the body, but he refused and encouraged him to surrender himself instead. Kim did not heed his advice and instead convinced him to remain silent about the murder; he then
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Kim Yong-won was born on a farmhouse in North
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About eight hours later, police received a report that a murdered woman's body was found at the pub, and immediately began investigating. Upon closer inspection, it was quickly determined that the crime scene had likely been staged to look like a robbery by the perpetrator, whom police suspected
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and items indicating that he planned to flee into China. Believing that he might try to ask his family and relatives for money to help him escape, undercover policemen were placed in locations he was known to frequent, and on June 10, Kim was caught by officers in
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Cheongju. Their relationship proved to be strained, as he would often talk to his fiancรฉe on the phone in front of Park, sometimes using her own cellphone. On June 3,
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awaiting execution. At the time, the death of Choi was served as a major inspiration for the draft of a bill which proposed increased funding and focus on childcare centers and providing professional counseling for maltreated children.
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