5case filesUpdated Jul 13, 2026
Casepin holds 5 case files in Seoul. By legal status, 5 marked solved.
Credit: Korea.net / Korean Culture and Information ServiceCC BY-SA 2.0SourceSOLVEDListenKCIA safe house near the Blue House presidential compound, Jongno District, Seoul · 1979
On 26 October 1979, Park Chung Hee, the third president of South Korea, was shot and killed by KCIA director Kim Jae-gyu during a dinner at a KCIA safe house in Seoul.
Credit: reviCC BY 2.0 KRSourceSOLVEDListenSeocho-dong, Seocho District, Seoul, South Korea · 2016
A 34-year-old man fatally stabbed a 23-year-old woman he had never met in a karaoke bar's public restroom in Seocho-dong, Seoul, in May 2016. He was convicted and sentenced to 30 years in prison; the case sparked national debate over misogyny and mental illness in South Korea.
Credit: Family handout (mother Lee Bok-su) via Korea JoongAng DailyEditorial useSourceSOLVEDListenBurger King, Itaewon, Seoul, South Korea · 1997
In 1997, 22-year-old Cho Jung-pil was fatally stabbed in a Burger King restroom in Itaewon, Seoul; after years of legal disputes, acquittals, and an extradition fight, Arthur Patterson was convicted of the murder in 2016 and sentenced to 20 years in prison.
Credit: 서울특별시 소방재난본부(Seoul Metropolitan Fire & Disaster Headquarters)CC BY-SA 2.0SourceSOLVEDListenNonhyeon-dong, Gangnam District, Seoul, South Korea · 2008
On 20 October 2008, Jeong Sang-jin set fire to his room in a Nonhyeon-dong gosiwon in Seoul and attacked fleeing residents with knives, killing six people and injuring seven; he was sentenced to death in May 2009.
SOLVEDListenBurger King, Itaewon, Seoul, South Korea · 1999
Cho Jung-pil, a 22-year-old Hongik University student, was stabbed to death in a Burger King restroom in Itaewon, Seoul, in 1997. After years of legal disputes, Arthur Patterson was extradited from the US in 2015 and convicted of the murder in 2016.
The files run from 1979 to 2016. The 1990s hold the most, with 2 files. The oldest is Assassination of Park Chung Hee, from 1979.
By type, the largest groups are murder and homicide cases (5) and arson cases (1).
None of these files has creator coverage attached yet; each one can still be heard as a narrated case file.
Every file is written from cited sources and pinned where it happened, and every person named carries the legal status the record gives them. Families and anyone involved can request a correction from any file.
This page updates from the published files, so counts and statuses change the day a record does. Open any file for its timeline, its sources and the coverage worth your time, or play it as a narrated case file.
Park Chung Hee (박정희) Presidential Portrait (cropped) — Credit: Korea.net / Korean Culture and Information ServiceCC BY-SA 2.0Source
Gangnam Murder condolence 001 (cropped) — Credit: reviCC BY 2.0 KRSource
Cho Jung-pil — Credit: Family handout (mother Lee Bok-su) via Korea JoongAng DailyEditorial useSource
2008년 10월 20일 논현동 고시원 살인 사건 현장 IMG 9722 — Credit: 서울특별시 소방재난본부(Seoul Metropolitan Fire & Disaster Headquarters)CC BY-SA 2.0Source5. The count covers published files only and changes as new files clear review.
Assassination of Park Chung Hee, from 1979. Open the file
It rebuilds hourly from the published files; the newest file change here is dated Jul 13, 2026. A status changes only when the record behind it does.
