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officially opened on April 26, 2024, the 42nd anniversary of the attack. The first proper public memorial service was held at 10 a.m. the same day. The park houses a memorial monument and tower, depicting two golden hands releasing a dove in to the sky. A wall with a list of victims carved into the side is situated directly behind the main monument, listing 56 deceased victims and another 34 injured.
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family. Shin We-do managed to escape after being shot in the leg, though his wife Son Won-jeom (์์์ ) and his daughters Chang-sun (์ฐฝ์) and Su-jeong (์์ ) were killed. Woo continued his shooting at the market-place, killing a total of 18 people in that village, before making his way towards
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Two hours later, police eventually caught up with him, and as forces closed in, Woo strapped two grenades to his chest and detonated them, killing himself and three of his hostages. Suh himself survived gravely injured. Police recovered four rounds of ammunition and one hand grenade from inside the
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At 10:30 p.m., Woo took 18-year-old Kim Ju-dong (๊น์ฃผ๋) hostage and moved to Ungye-Ri (์ด๊ณ๋ฆฌ), where he ordered Kim to get him a soft drink from a grocery store owned by 52-year-old Shin We-do (์ ์ธ๋). After getting what he had asked for, Woo killed Kim and then attacked the store owner and his
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Mal-soon, who had gone to investigate after hearing shots in the village. From that point on, he proceeded from village to village, taking advantage of his position as a police officer to gain entry to the houses and shoot their inhabitants.
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864:"Victims of amok slayings to get compensation"
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889:"'์ฐ ์๊ฒฝ ์ด๊ธฐ ๋์ฌ' ํ 42๋
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828:(in Korean). April 28, 1982. Archived from
708:"Korean policeman's rampage leaves 58 dead"
463:Alternatively transliterated as Wou Bom-kon
569:. April 27, 1982. p. 14A – via
518:"Cop kills 55 after quarrel with mistress"
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์ฃฝ์ด๊ณ ์ด์์ง ๋ฌธ์โฆ ๋ถ์๊ธ 3000์ ๋ธ ๋ค ๋ ๋์ฌ"
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1086:"'์ฐ๋ฒ๊ณค ์ฌ๊ฑด' ์ถ๋ชจ๊ณต์โฆ๊ถ๋ฅ๊ณต์ค์ด๋์ฅ ์ธ๊ทผ์ ๋ค์ด์ ๋ค"
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741:"Minister sacked over massacre"
565:. Vol. 106, no. 295.
1147:Spree shootings in South Korea
1142:Murderโsuicides in South Korea
1004:. Vol. 27, no. 126.
487:""๊ทธ ๋ ๋ฐค์, ์
๋ชฝ์ด์๋ค"โฆ์ฐ์๊ฒฝ ์ด๊ธฐ ๋์ฌ ์ฌ๊ฑด"
273:Republic of Korea Marine Corps
205:57 (including the perpetrator)
159:c. 9:30 P.M. – 5:45 A.M.
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1137:Mass shootings in South Korea
1026:. Vol. 81, no. 99.
972:Hwang, K.C (April 27, 1982).
918:"์๋ น '์ฐ ์๊ฒฝ ์ฌ๊ฑด' 42๋
๋ง์ ํฌ์์ ์๋ น์ "
852:. April 29, 1982. p. 9.
825:JoongAng Media Network Group
663:. April 28, 1982. p. 5.
356:Police response, Woo's death
1084:๋ฏผ, ๊น๋ (November 22, 2022).
950:(in Korean). April 27, 2024
775:Far Eastern Economic Review
493:(in Korean). March 17, 2017
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157:April 26 – 27, 1982
789:"Murder toll rises to 56"
288:South Gyeongsang Province
233:South Gyeongsang Province
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986:. p. 8 – via
916:์ , ์กฐ์ค (April 24, 2024).
887:ํธ, ๊น์ค (April 26, 2024).
587:์ง, ์ต์ฑ (April 13, 2012).
259:An undated photo of Woo.
1061:๋ก, ๊น์ (July 19, 2020).
1023:Ellensburg Daily Record
770:Ricochet from a rampage
39:Infobox civilian attack
1018:"Berserk cop kills 53"
543:, April 28, 1982, p. 7
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95:Uiryeong (South Korea)
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979:The Madison Courier
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116:Coordinates
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251:Background
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423:Memorial
104:Location
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241:suicide
210:Injured
176:Weapons
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432:Notes
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