“Pretty” 20-Yr-Old Girl Kills Her Dates For Being “Needy”, But Men Want To "Fix Her"

0:01Bada bing, bada boom.

0:02>> If you really want to know what somebody

0:04is into, you follow them at night. You

0:07do not follow them throughout the day.

0:09Because during the day, we're all doing

0:10things that we don't really want to do,

0:12but we kind of have to do. We're going

0:14to work, we're going to school, we're

0:15running errands. But at night, that's

0:18usually when someone makes a choice.

0:20Regardless of sleep, the fact that it's

0:22dark outside, I'm going to go outside

0:24and I'm going to do this thing. And taxi

0:28drivers are the ones that get to see all

0:30of us in our dirty little glory. One

0:32taxi driver says, "You're awake when the

0:35world is asleep. It changes how you see

0:37things." The night shifts. Okay. A lot

0:39of taxi drivers have stated during the

0:41night, people are more open to sharing

0:43things about themselves that they

0:45probably wouldn't during the day. Maybe

0:47because it's dark in the car and they

0:48feel the need to feel the silence all of

0:49a sudden. And you just see weird things.

0:53One taxi driver said the strangest

0:54incident that he had was this guy gets

0:57into the back. He makes eye contact

0:59through the rearview mirror. He's got

1:00this pent up energy like something big

1:02is about to happen.

1:04Where too? The whole time he's anxiously

1:08rubbing his hands on his thighs. He's

1:10going to propose to the love of his

1:12life. It's like a beautiful thing to

1:13witness. The driver drops him off,

1:15wishes him good luck in the rearview

1:16mirror, and then a few stops later, he

1:19picks up the same man. Now the

1:22destination is a bar. The girl said no.

1:26Same person, same night, two very

1:28different car rides. Taxi drivers,

1:30[music] they just know way too much

1:32about people. Not in like the psychic

1:33way, but the observational way, which I

1:35think is arguably a lot creepier.

1:38Another one, the same taxi driver had a

1:40woman get into the back of his car.

1:41[music] Quote, "She silently cried the

1:44whole time in the back, completely

1:46silent the whole ride, and then just

1:47says, "Thank you for not asking

1:49anything." and then walked away. She

1:52told him, "Thank you for not asking her

1:54if she's okay while she's falling apart

1:57in the back of his car." One finance

1:59executive is picked up and he confesses

2:00to the taxi driver at 2:00 in the

2:02morning that this is his very first

2:04conversation in months. He doesn't talk

2:06to his wife. He doesn't talk to his

2:07kids. He has no friends. The only people

2:10that he talks to are people at work and

2:12it's mainly through emails. And taxis

2:14all have a very specific smell at 2:00

2:16in the morning. It's usually people

2:18going out in the middle of the night and

2:20for some odd reason they spray a lot

2:22more perfume and cologne at night. Maybe

2:24it's because they haven't showered all

2:26day and they're still headed out or

2:28maybe because they're meeting someone

2:29who's going to be able to smell them.

2:31It's that mixed with the sanitizing

2:33scent of the seats. That's the smell.

2:35Except one particular taxi driver in

2:38South Korea. He's on his night shift

2:40when the door opens. Beautiful

2:4220-year-old woman gets in with two

2:45[music] giant takeout bags of fried

2:47chicken. two heavy bags of fried

2:49chicken. He can smell it. The entire

2:50taxi cab suddenly smells like fried

2:52chicken now. She gets into the car and

2:54the driver is trying his best not to

2:56stare at her chest in the rearview

2:57mirror, but it's just she's wearing a

3:00very unusually low cut shirt considering

3:02how cold it is outside and it's also the

3:04middle of the night and she's got two

3:06bags of fried chicken and he's picking

3:08her up from a local motel because I

3:10don't know, you know, you can ponder a

3:12bit further. She's the first to talk.

3:14Hurry, sir. Go fast. I'm being chased.

3:17I'll give you cash. And she's like, "Go,

3:19go, go." So, out of just pure instinct,

3:22he's stepping on the gas and she's

3:24leaning back, taking a deep breath of

3:26what looks like $100 worth of fried

3:28chicken. And then she starts taking a

3:30picture. She's almost smirking while

3:32she's typing something out on her phone.

3:34And the whole reason that this is odd is

3:35because the driver's on high alert. He's

3:37looking for whoever could be potentially

3:38chasing this young woman in the middle

3:40of the night. Like, what happens if they

3:41catch up? But also, the fried chicken

3:43smell is very distracting. and she said

3:45someone is chasing them. But suddenly,

3:47her demeanor is very relaxed in the back

3:49of the car, as if she's just getting a

3:51ride to a local coffee shop at 2:00

3:53p.m., not 2:00 a.m. Everything about

3:55this ride, even though it's not one of

3:57the most outwardly outrageous rides that

4:00he's had recently, everything about this

4:02ride makes him uncomfortable. He can't

4:04stop thinking about it to the point

4:06where he starts coming up with these

4:08random ideas of why she was in a rush,

4:10but not really. He comes up with this

4:12idea. Maybe she wanted him to take her

4:14seriously and rush her home so that she

4:16could eat the fried chicken before it

4:18got cold. But if she had just said that,

4:19then he wouldn't have taken her

4:21seriously. So like maybe she just said,

4:22"Someone's chasing me."

4:24>> He's like thinking of all these weird

4:26scenarios until he turns on the news one

4:28day and he realizes the woman that he

4:30picked up that night is the motel serial

4:33killer, the newest female serial killer

4:35of South Korea, the one that nizens have

4:38said is too pretty to go to jail.

4:46>> [music]

4:53[music]

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5:22Today's case involves the intentional

5:24drugging of individuals without their

5:25consent. Also sometimes referred to as

5:28date rword drugging. So, please watch

5:30with caution. We did have help from our

5:32wonderful Korean researchers for

5:33translations for today's case. But if

5:35anything is misrepresented or

5:36miscommunicated, please let us know in

5:38the comments. Also, keep in mind that

5:40any quotes or statements have been

5:41translated and may be condensed for

5:43brevity. So, with that, let's get

5:45started. Running clubs are like a big

5:47part of South Korea these days. If you

5:49search up running crew on Instagram, you

5:50get at least 200,000 posts from

5:53different running clubs that are packed

5:54with a bunch of young single people.

5:56Clothing brands create running clubs in

5:59the city so that you can go run with

6:01people your age to the point where they

6:03have these organized cops and robbers

6:05games. They do at running gatherings.

6:07Okay. So, community message boards will

6:08read, "Anyone up for cops and robbers

6:10tonight at 8:00 p.m. adults only, 20

6:13plus, fast runners welcome."

6:14>> Like, what? It's a game.

6:16>> Yeah. So, half the people are cops, the

6:18other half are robbers, and you just

6:19chase each other in the park. And it's a

6:22bunch of like 25year-olds chasing other

6:2425-year-olds that they just met. This is

6:27like a Korean thing.

6:28>> Yeah. And it's like normal people go

6:30because I think when you think of a

6:31message board like that, maybe in the

6:33States it sounds like not a lot of

6:34normal people will go and you'd be kind

6:36of scared.

6:37>> Runners and

6:38>> Yeah. But just lots of normal young

6:39people go because it's so hard to meet

6:41people these days and Korea. There's

6:43also this like contextual nuance of

6:46usually when you meet people in a

6:47serious setting. Everyone wants to know

6:49your age, your income, what you do for a

6:51living, who your parents are. And it's a

6:53very strict society of who you know is

6:55what you are.

6:57>> And so this running club, nobody asks

6:59what your job is. You just be chasing

7:01people. It will be 14° outside and there

7:04will be gatherings of people in their

7:0520s and 30s outside at the park. And it

7:07looks like some sort of corporate

7:09initiation, [laughter]

7:10but they're just here to play tag in the

7:12freezing cold. It's just are you a cop?

7:15Are you a runner? Start running. That's

7:17how younger people in South Korea will

7:19meet people these days. Or you could

7:21make it easier and just go to a hunting

7:22bar. A hunting bar is a bar specifically

7:25set up in Korea for singles to approach

7:27strangers and try to start dates. It's

7:29set up so there's a bunch of tables all

7:31circling a dance floor and singles will

7:33walk from table to table asking if they

7:35can join them. So sometimes you'll have

7:37like a full table of women and then a

7:40group of men will want to join their

7:42table or tables of men and groups of

7:45women will come up and want to join

7:46their table.

7:47>> That's cool.

7:48>> Yeah. instead of those singles are

7:49encouraged and it's very normal to go

7:51from table to table. So it's not like oh

7:53you need to know all these people to

7:54make friends at the bar.

7:55>> It's like Tinder in real life.

7:57>> Yeah. It's like speed dating in real

7:58life. It's weird.

7:59>> Yeah. And then sometimes they'll pay for

8:01the drinks. Sometimes they'll get drunk

8:03and then maybe they'll go to a second

8:05part for like the second half of the

8:07show. I guess they'll go to a separate

8:09bar or a separate club. The hunting bar

8:12is specifically to meet people. But

8:14because you're meeting complete

8:16strangers, it is hard to vouch for

8:18everybody. Sometimes you meet someone at

8:20a hunting bar and you meet them outside

8:22for a secondary date and maybe it's

8:25without the beer all of a sudden or the

8:26dim lights and they're just like a

8:29little weird. They're just weird. As

8:32dramatically as possible, it's like this

8:35tiny little part of soul is cursed.

8:38There's a group of guys. They don't know

8:39each other. They're not friends. They

8:41don't work at the same place, but

8:42they've all been to the local hunting

8:44bars, and after that, they've all been

8:46on some of the worst dates imaginable. I

8:48mean, in the grand scheme of things, is

8:50this the worst thing to happen to a man?

8:52No. But these dates, they've just been

8:54so bizarrely odd. It's not even like

8:56your typical uh we just didn't mesh well

8:58and it was a waste of time. It's like,

9:00this is very uncomfortable. I am

9:02contemplating the idea of never dating

9:04again because the idea of going on

9:06another date after this makes them want

9:08to dry heave. Let's start with Adam.

9:10These are all fake names because these

9:11people have all maintained anonymity,

9:13even in Korean. So, Adam meets up with a

9:1622-year-old woman. He ends up spending

9:18$213 on a single date, which is fine.

9:21But she never said thank you, not even

9:22one time. He paid for everything the

9:25whole night. Not even a thank you. And

9:28that's not the shitty part. The shitty

9:29part is the whole date she's texting

9:32another man the whole time and he still

9:34spent $213.

9:37Ben. Ben, his head is spinning from this

9:40date. Okay, it was like a fake date. He

9:41said 25-year-old woman he's on a date

9:43with. First of all, she doesn't even

9:44seem 25. What's weird is she looks

9:47younger than 25. I mean, she doesn't

9:49look underage, but she looks like maybe

9:50she's like 21, 22. Why would you make

9:52your age older? It doesn't. So, he's

9:55confused by that. Maybe it's the skin. I

9:56don't know. It's weird. Why would you?

9:58He doesn't get it. But the whole date

10:00feels like a prolonged game of two

10:02truths and a lie. Every question he

10:04asks, she'd just be making up stuff on

10:06the spot. and he can tell and he's so

10:08confused why. And it's stuff that it

10:11doesn't make sense that she would lie.

10:13He asks her, "How tall are you?" I mean,

10:15the evidence is right there. It's hard

10:17to lie about how tall you are when

10:19you're standing right in front of that

10:20person. And it's clear that she's

10:22perhaps 5'7, maybe even pushing 5'8. And

10:26in Korea, a woman being taller is a good

10:28thing. She's like, "I'm 5'4." He's like,

10:30"No, the you're not." I'm so

10:32confused. He's just confused.

10:34>> But like the woman is not taller than

10:35the guy. You're saying she's just like a

10:37tall Okay. Okay.

10:38>> She's a tall woman and that's usually

10:40seen as a very positive thing in Korea

10:42to be tall. It's almost modelque, right?

10:45But she's lying and saying she's 5'4"

10:47for genuinely no reason at all. And he's

10:49standing right there. He's like, "I see

10:51you. I can see how tall you are and I

10:54know you're not 5'4. I don't

10:56understand." She's just blatantly

10:58telling so many lies with so many

11:00inexplicable inconsistencies. Even a

11:02toddler would think that she's a

11:04pathological liar. and she's so

11:05straightfaced with it, he can't even

11:07call her out. Also, she doesn't pay for

11:09a single thing. She orders the most

11:10expensive items on the menu and she

11:12doesn't finish any of the food that

11:14she's eating before she just ravages

11:17more food by asking the waiter to get

11:19another plate of this. She's adding on

11:21to the order throughout the date, even

11:23though she's not even done eating. Not

11:25once does she say thank you. But the

11:27oddest thing is, quote, "Despite all of

11:30this, she came to the date in extremely

11:33revealing clothing on a bitterly cold

11:35day. Like her entire chest is out." And

11:37he tells her multiple times like, "Oh,

11:39zip your jacket, but cuz we're about to

11:40go outside and it's the wind is so cold.

11:43You should zip up your jacket."

11:44Eventually, he's getting tapped up. It's

11:46like, "That's so frustrating." Like,

11:49just watching you makes me cold. So, he

11:51reaches over and just zips up his jacket

11:53himself cuz he's like, "Lady, think for

11:55a second. you're about to get sick. And

11:57she irritably unzips it all the way down

11:59so her cleavage is back out and just

12:01glares at him. And he's like, I wasn't

12:04even I thought I was being a gentleman

12:06trying to make sure that you're not

12:07getting sick. I'm so confused. Then

12:10another guy, Ethan, he meets a girl at

12:12the club. They start texting and she

12:14tells him in a romantic way, "I want to

12:15see the beach." They plan a day trip to

12:18a local beach. While they're there, she

12:19says she has no money and he's like,

12:20"Then why'd you come to the beach,

12:21bitch?" Okay, he it's fine. He pays for

12:24all the food, all the beverages while

12:25they're there, which is fine, but she's

12:27ordering ungodly amounts of food. And

12:29then when they go to the convenience

12:30store to grab waters and coffee, she

12:33starts adding in like regular house

12:34things that she wants, like little

12:36detergent, vitamins, feminine hygiene

12:40items, lip balms, face masks, skin care,

12:43just random things that has nothing to

12:45do with Ethan, and then just forces him

12:47to pay for it.

12:49Okay,

12:49>> but I guess Ethan is still really into

12:51her because he still meets up with her

12:52one more time after this god-awful beach

12:54trip. She comes over to his house for

12:56dinner and when she leaves, he realizes

12:59two things in his house are missing. A

13:01baseball hat, like a cap, and a

13:04Starbucks gift card with $33 on there.

13:06>> So, she's a liar and a thief.

13:08>> So, he texts her. He's like, "Did you

13:10maybe accidentally take my $33 Starbucks

13:14gift card in my hat?" And she blocks

13:16him. Then a guy named Kang, he goes on a

13:19date with a girl on [music] White Day.

13:21These are all very relevant stories,

13:22okay? He goes on a date on White Day,

13:25holiday where men give candy to women.

13:27It's [music] like Valentine's Day,

13:29>> okay?

13:29>> But White Day, right? And they meet in

13:31front of the woman's university station,

13:33the train station. They grab coffee and

13:35the whole time she's like randomly

13:37pouring her heart out about how

13:38difficult her childhood upbringing has

13:40been. It's a little bit jarring because

13:42they just met and she's almost in tears

13:44about how abusive her father is. and he

13:46does feel bad, but also he doesn't

13:48really know how to respond because it's

13:49out of the blue. So, he's like, "There,

13:51there." He's trying to comfort her, but

13:53also like, "I want to go." He tries to

13:56maneuver the situation so he can leave.

13:58And it seems like she catches on because

14:00she starts coughing and banging on her

14:02chest and she's like dramatically

14:04grabbing onto him, coughing.

14:06>> He's trying to run away from the date.

14:08>> Yeah. He's like, "Are you okay? My

14:10chest, it feels tight." He takes her to

14:13a nearby clinic. He's contemplating

14:15leaving her at the clinic, but he's

14:17like, "God, I just feel bad. I [music]

14:19guess I'll just stay." So, he wastes his

14:21time waiting around for her to be seen

14:22by the doctor, and then she's crying

14:24about how miserable her life is. He then

14:26takes her to the pharmacy to pay for her

14:28prescription, which sounds really

14:29romantic in America because a

14:31prescription is like 10 trillion without

14:33insurance. In Korea, it's like a few

14:35dollars. Okay. So, he's trying to pay

14:37for the $3 medicine. and she's boom boom

14:42vitamins, tampons, herbal drinks, lip

14:44balm. And he's like, "I'm not paying for

14:46that. I'm not paying for $67 worth of

14:49shenanigans. I'm just trying to pay for

14:52your $3 medication."

14:54And she's like, "Well, I need these to

14:56feel better, too." He's so thrown off.

14:59He says, "No, I I'm just paying for the

15:01prescription." She's pissed. She storms

15:04off. He's left confused, but also she

15:06did take the $3 prescription that he

15:08paid for and he stormed out of there

15:10like he's the problem.

15:12Another guy named Frank, super relevant,

15:14I'm telling you. Okay. Goes to a

15:16restaurant date. South Korea.

15:18>> How many guys are there?

15:19>> So many guys. Okay. And they're all

15:21coming out and they're like, "Let me

15:22tell you. Let me tell you." Okay. He

15:24leaves his wallet on the table, goes to

15:26the restroom. This is South Korea. You

15:27know what you do in Korea? You go into a

15:29restaurant and you pick a table you like

15:31and you put your phone and your wallet,

15:33your most valuable pieces of items on

15:35the table to claim it as yours. Nobody

15:37steals it. Nobody steals it. That's just

15:39how you claim a table. He leaves his

15:40wallet on the table. His date is at the

15:42table, too.

15:43>> Yeah. And there's like bajillion CCTV

15:45cameras everywhere. So, nobody really

15:47steals.

15:48>> Yeah. Nobody steals. So, then he goes to

15:49the restroom. He comes back and he's

15:51about to pay for the dinner. And all the

15:52cash in his wallet is gone. Like, not

15:54even just one bill. All the bills are

15:57gone. But his wallet is still there. his

15:58credit cards are still there. So he's

16:00like what? He asks the date. Do you know

16:03if like somebody just like came by and

16:06took the cash? She's like, "No, I have

16:08no idea what you're talking about." They

16:10check the security camera because it's

16:12Korea and she's just pocketing the cash

16:16and she's the crazier part is she's

16:18standing there watching the CCTV camera

16:21footage with them and then she's just

16:23staring at them like, "And what are you

16:24going to do about it?"

16:25>> So what did they do? She gave the cash

16:27back and then stormed out of there like

16:28he was the problem.

16:30>> Wow.

16:32>> Okay, we're almost done with these crazy

16:34dates, but there's this guy named

16:35Patrick, too. And this Patrick guy, he's

16:38like, I should have known she was a

16:40problem because the minute that we

16:41started texting, she sent me a list of

16:45restaurants I really like to go to. All

16:47$4 money signs. Not even like a variety.

16:51Like sometimes you got to throw in some

16:52variety, right? No, all expensive. And

16:55she's just like has this weird obsession

16:57with food. She's messaging him non-stop.

16:58I love all kinds of meat. By the way,

17:00meat is pretty expensive in Korea.

17:02Grilled chicken thigh, pork belly, thick

17:03cut pork, black pork, beef, western

17:05food. Love it all. I love anything with

17:07meat. Okay. [music] He takes her out on

17:09a date and during that date, they have

17:11two full meals. At the end, she's like,

17:13"Can you buy me a hamburger and butterb

17:15bread to take home?" [laughter]

17:16It's like she has this enormous,

17:19insatiable obsession with food. And the

17:21strange thing is, well, first of all,

17:23she doesn't pay for anything, which is

17:24like a thing, but also on top of that,

17:28she never used the restroom. Like, they

17:30were out the whole day. Never used the

17:32restroom. And he was like, "Hey, you

17:34don't think I like I've I've peed like

17:3610 times since we've been on this date."

17:39>> Yeah.

17:39>> Cuz it's like a 24-hour long

17:41date. You haven't peed once. You think

17:43that's weird?

17:44>> And she was like, "That's weird. I got

17:46to go pee." And then she just like went

17:48the minute that he pointed weird. Weird.

17:52Very weird.

17:54>> Okay. What is going on?

17:56>> So weird. So all these people, they're

17:57like, I don't know what's going on. But

18:00what happens is I meet a girl at a

18:02hunting bar, go on a date with her, and

18:04it's been weird.

18:05>> Oh, they all met at this hunting bar.

18:08Soon it will be revealed that every

18:10single one of these guys, they find out

18:12that they were on a date with the same

18:14woman. And she will be all over the news

18:18for being a serial killer who kills her

18:20dates.

18:21>> A serial killer.

18:23>> That's what they're calling her in

18:24Korea. Sam, this is a pseudonym. He's

18:28about ready to go on a date. He's

18:29already told his close friends about

18:31this girl that he's going to meet.

18:32They've been texting back and forth, and

18:33she seems like the type of person that

18:35he could see himself getting serious

18:36with. He's at the age where he's

18:38thinking about getting married. He's

18:39been saving every single month to open

18:41up his own restaurant. He's a chef and

18:43he's really nervous about this date. He

18:45gets on chat GBT and he looks up, "Can

18:48you suggest what to say on a blind

18:50date?" His date [music]

18:52is also on chat GBT right before the

18:54date asking questions. Her searches

18:57include, "What is a lethal overdose of

19:00sleeping pills?" "If you take sleeping

19:02pills with alcohol, can you die?" and

19:05she's taking notes in her journal with

19:07each date. This dose doesn't even kill

19:10them. They wake up and become even more

19:12of a nuisance to me.

19:15>> It's so crazy that we've entered the

19:16chat GPT era.

19:18>> Yeah.

19:18>> Like every case now, like we constantly

19:21talk about AI and chat GPT.

19:22>> Yeah, they're all searching some bizarre

19:24things on GPT.

19:26>> Now, motel in Korea are not the same as

19:29the United States. I feel like the word

19:30motel has a very strong connotation with

19:32either affordable place to stay for the

19:34night or usually a place where scary

19:35things can happen just because of the

19:36way the buildings were set up and the

19:38locations. Korean motel are very

19:40different in the sense that they're

19:41everywhere. If you're on a street with

19:42karaoke bars and clubs, there's going to

19:44be a lot of motel. So, it's used by a

19:46lot of passerby. So, business travelers,

19:48but also couples who still live with

19:49their parents because uh in Korea, you

19:52stay with your parents for quite a bit

19:53of time before you get married. So, it's

19:55not like you just go out and live on

19:56your own where you can invite your

19:57boyfriend or your girlfriend over and do

20:00things you would do in a loving,

20:02consensual adult relationship. So,

20:04couples will go to motel or couples who

20:06have just met each other and don't know

20:07each other's names and just want to have

20:08a good one night stand, they'll go to a

20:10motel. But motel are also used by

20:12friends. A lot of friends, if they have

20:14a gathering of 10 friends who want to

20:16get drunk and play drinking games, but

20:18they don't want to go to an

20:19establishment and pay money for food and

20:21service charge and tip and this and

20:23that, they'll rent a motel room and just

20:25hang out in the motel room as if it's

20:27like a friend's house.

20:28>> Usually a younger crowd cuz maybe their

20:32apartments, they still live with their

20:33parents or it's not enough space. So,

20:35they'll just rent a cheap motel room.

20:37It's not unusual and it certainly

20:39doesn't have the sedier connotation

20:41maybe American motel have. But the

20:43police, they walk into this cramped

20:45motel room. There is a man on the bed

20:48laying on his side. He's rigid and he's

20:51dead. Motel staff are hiding behind the

20:54motel entry. We saw him because we were

20:56trying to see if the room was ready for

20:57checking out and we saw that there was

20:59like stuff in his nose. I think we think

21:01he's dead. The police are glancing

21:03around. There's nothing particularly

21:05alarming about the room. There's no

21:07signs of evident trauma. It doesn't

21:09appear that he passed with a sign of a

21:11struggle. There's no external injuries.

21:13This is not a self-exit. There's no

21:14gunshot wounds, stab wounds, no

21:16strangulation marks. There is, however,

21:19they're looking closely with their

21:21flashlight. There's small amounts of

21:23vomit in the mouth, airways. It looks

21:26like it's there's some swelling. There's

21:29some sort of congestion. That's about

21:31the only thing they can find. And that

21:33and his phone and a bottle on the

21:34nightstand. They're like, "What is

21:36that?" It's a It's a bottle of hangover

21:39medication. It's like a detox drink that

21:41you consume if you want to avoid being

21:42hung over the next day. You can buy it

21:44at like the corner store. It's not

21:45really effective. Maybe it's more so the

21:47placebo. I'm sure it's got lots of

21:49electrolytes, so it hydrates you a

21:51little bit better than water, but it's

21:52nothing that serious. I mean, nothing

21:54that would cause him to have some sort

21:55of medical reaction, that's for sure.

21:57Has his phone been checked? There is an

22:00unopened message on this man's phone and

22:02it's a very lengthy message and it's

22:05from a girl. It reads, "Oh, so I

22:07suddenly got my period and I felt like I

22:09couldn't fall asleep in the motel room,

22:10so I decided to go home and you had

22:12given me that watt of cash earlier for

22:14the taxi fair, which by the way, our

22:16photo booth pictures were folded inside

22:17of it. I'll give that back to you next

22:19time we meet. Anyway, thanks for giving

22:20me the money for the cab so I wouldn't

22:22be cold getting home. Oh, and also, you

22:24ordered fried chicken using my phone and

22:25we were watching a movie when your eyes

22:27glazed over and you suddenly fell

22:28asleep. I don't know if you remember,

22:30but when the food was about to arrive, I

22:31tried to wake you up a little bit, and

22:32you wanted to go back to sleep again. I

22:34told you not to sleep, but you seemed

22:35tired and kept wanting to sleep. So, I

22:37asked you what to do about the fried

22:39chicken, and you said to eat it all by

22:41myself and just to take it home. So,

22:44since eating in the motel room alone

22:45while you're sleeping seemed lonely, I

22:47thought I would just take it back home

22:48and eat it at home before work. I packed

22:51it all up and left. It just felt lonely

22:53eating alone while you were asleep. Next

22:55time, let's just go out to eat together.

22:58That sounds very goofy. Like you're just

23:00It's like a confession note almost.

23:02>> Yeah. You don't have to be an

23:03investigator to think that this is

23:04weird. Usually people don't say things

23:06like, "Well, A happened, so then you

23:07said B, and remember how I said C, and

23:09now this is D, and now E, and so

23:11thanks." You just say, "Hey, thanks for

23:13the night."

23:14>> Yeah,

23:15>> this looks like meeting notes or a cover

23:17your ass email after a meeting where you

23:19told everyone you knew something was not

23:21a good idea if they kept doing that and

23:22they kept doing that anyway. That's what

23:24it sounds like. But then there's another

23:26message, a picture from inside the taxi.

23:28So it's like a girl is sitting in the

23:30back of the taxi taking a picture with

23:32the words, "I'm in the taxi heading

23:33home. I know you got the room because

23:35you wanted to hang out together, but

23:36like I said, I happen to be on the

23:38period, so a lot of stomach cramps." And

23:40I had no pads. Then you gave me the wad

23:42of cash for the taxi and treated me to

23:44food, so thank you.

23:45>> Just weird.

23:46>> The police are like, "Who was in the

23:48motel room with him?" The motel staff

23:50said, "Well, I mean, there was this um

23:53there was this woman." So, they came in

23:56last night. He walked in with this

23:58woman. They didn't seem that drunk or

24:00anything. They just seemed normal, like

24:01a normal couple. And then, I think a

24:04little bit while after that, some guy

24:06delivered fried chicken. And then, like

24:0710 minutes after the fried chicken was

24:09delivered, the woman left alone. The

24:12man's body is taken to a medical

24:13examiner and it shows that he was

24:16drugged. These are all the drugs found

24:17in his system. three different types of

24:20anti-depressants,

24:21sleeping pills, a benzoazipene sedative,

24:25a cardiovascular drug, a Tylenol, and an

24:28antihistamine. And these are just the

24:30different types. It's not like the

24:31different pill. In fact, the amount of

24:33drugs found in his body, it was like 50

24:35pills of different types of drugs. What?

24:38>> So, it's only three different types of

24:39anti-depressants, but it could have been

24:41four pills of each anti-depressant. It's

24:44like a pharmaceutical cocktail. And a

24:47lot of them are prescription medications

24:48which a doctor states the drugs found in

24:51his blood were essentially a standard

24:52pharmaceutical toolkit for a patient

24:54presenting with depression or sleeping

24:56disorders. So this is we got to find

24:58someone who was prescribed these things

25:00because they were able to give this to

25:02him, administer it to him. And these are

25:03not fun drugs. This is not a situation

25:05where some people decide that they're

25:07going to try prescription drugs for fun

25:09and get high and then they overdosed.

25:11These are not fun drugs. and drugs are

25:14very controlled in.

25:16>> So according to his records, he does not

25:18have depression or sleeping disorder and

25:20he was not prescribed any of these

25:21medications and it's just an obscene

25:24amount of pills in his system and the

25:26police know that they have a big big

25:28problem on their hands because a

25:30homicide case in South Korea in Soul is

25:32already very very bad. It's a big deal.

25:35In Soul there is about one homicide per

25:37week if even that.

25:39>> What?

25:40>> And this is the second one. Yeah. Okay.

25:42In comparison, I think in New York

25:44there's about 10 a week. New York City.

25:47>> Wow.

25:47>> I mean, there's a lot more self-exits

25:50and other death deaths, but in the

25:52manner homicide is about one a week. And

25:55this is the second one. Not this week,

25:59but the second one with the same

26:01pattern. Young man in his 20s passed out

26:03in a motel room, drugged, deceased by

26:06the morning. Motel staff discover and

26:09motel staff report that he had walked in

26:10with a woman who quickly left after

26:12checking in. It happened just 11 days

26:15earlier, which one would imagine it's

26:17only a matter of time before another

26:19person ends up dead in a motel room.

26:22Police start investigating and they come

26:24across a man. [music] He's alive barely,

26:27but he might know something. Police talk

26:29to him now that he's feeling better. He

26:31had spent 2 days in the hospital

26:33unconscious. What happened? Was he in a

26:35motel room? Did he wake up in a motel

26:36room? He's like, "No, December 14th,

26:382025." Noon. It's like 11:20 a.m.

26:42>> When was the previous one found dead?

26:44>> January and February.

26:46>> Oh, this one was a month ago. Okay.

26:48>> So, he's like, I was in the parking lot

26:50of this bakery with my girlfriend and

26:53that's all I remember. That's it. Well,

26:56that and she gave me this drink. Was it

26:57a hangover recovery drink? Like a detox

27:00drink? No, it was like a herbal medicine

27:02for fatigue cuz I've been really tired

27:04with work. I drank it and then I don't

27:07remember anything else. I woke up in the

27:08hospital 2 days later. I was out for two

27:10days. He wakes up and he texts her,

27:13"What did you put in that drink?" The

27:14doctor told my mom twice that I could

27:16have never woken up. Like it was that

27:17bad. The bakery, the owner, the

27:20employees, they've all been shaking in

27:22their boots, frightened beyond

27:23comprehension because they assumed it

27:25was something they did with the baked

27:26goods by accident. I mean, it was a very

27:28dramatic scene. the ambulance showed up.

27:30It doesn't make sense, but I'm alive now

27:33and I have no idea what happened and she

27:34won't talk to me. And the police are

27:36taking notes and they ask if that woman

27:38if his girlfriend looks familiar to the

27:40woman in the two motel CCTV footages.

27:43He's like, "Yeah, that's my girlfriend."

27:44Well, ex-girlfriend,

27:4620-year-old Kim Hoyong. 20

27:49>> 20.

27:52[music]

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28:35And she's not a hard woman to find. In

28:36fact, she's not even hiding. Police

28:38arrest her at her house and just 30

28:39minutes before her arrest, she had just

28:41posted another selfie on Instagram. And

28:43in the motel footage, her face is out

28:44and about. It's not like she's wearing a

28:46mask in hiding and then she's just on

28:47Instagram posting her face and all of

28:50these selfies. She posts a lot of

28:51selfies on Instagram. She's always

28:52pouting at the camera while subtly but

28:54not subtly emphasizing her cleavage with

28:56the hashtag # followers welcome.

28:59#coolton tone beauty followforollow

29:01mutual follow likes DM. They bring her

29:04in for questioning and she innocently

29:06tells them I don't I didn't know they

29:08died. I didn't think it was that

29:11dangerous because I also take these meds

29:13myself.

29:15They're like, "Why would you give them

29:16meds that they're not prescribed?" And

29:18she said that she was just drugging

29:20these men because she didn't like

29:22dealing with conflict. She's like, "I'm

29:24so conflict adverse. I was just trying

29:26to put them to sleep." She's saying, you

29:27know, they would spend hundreds of

29:29dollars buying me food and I'm assuming

29:31that they want to do it afterwards and I

29:32don't want to do it, so I would just put

29:34them to sleep. She's like, I just didn't

29:36want them to be like a nuisance and try

29:38to, you know, initiate these intimate

29:40relations with me, so I would drug them.

29:42And I guess two of them just happen to

29:44die.

29:46>> So, she does admit to

29:47>> Yeah.

29:48>> killing them. Okay.

29:49>> A post starts going viral in South

29:51Korea, and it's clearly a very, very

29:52distraught man, and he's asking for

29:54advice. Would it be so bad to be pen

29:58pals with the motel killer? Hear me out.

30:00She's pretty. Normally, it's not easy to

30:03date someone that pretty. If she gets

30:06life in prison, maybe I could write

30:08letters, put some money in her

30:09commissary, visit her every now and

30:11then. I had a pen pal with a regular

30:13female inmate before. She would call me

30:15babe and act all cute while writing. And

30:18then she got out and started cheating on

30:20me, so we broke up and I was devastated.

30:22But with someone serving life, which I'm

30:24assuming she's going to get life in

30:25prison, [music] right? She can't go

30:27anywhere. She'd be in prison forever.

30:30Isn't it actually like kind of okay

30:33keeping in touch just until she dies?

30:36After Kim Soyong's arrest, Netzens start

30:38circulating pictures of her most recent

30:40Instagram pictures, her photo shoots,

30:43and they have dubbed her I mean the

30:44police have dubbed her a serial killer,

30:46even though I think in the US it's like

30:47three people or more have to be victims.

30:49But there are two victims and she also

30:51drugged countless other guys who

30:52thankfully survived. but they've dubbed

30:54her the motel serial killer and nizens

30:57in South Korea have dubbed her the

30:59prettiest killer alive. In Korea,

31:02there's a whole legal process of

31:03releasing identities of perpetrators,

31:05even if they're adults. There has to be

31:06certain criteria met. So, the

31:08prosecutors have yet to release

31:10Kimyong's age and name. They have now,

31:12but at this point in the story, they

31:13haven't released her name yet. But

31:15nitizens are quick. They're spreading

31:16her social media pages on internet

31:18forums, and it's not exactly the

31:20reaction that people were expecting. Cuz

31:22usually when people start outing

31:24perpetrators, it's like a wave of hate.

31:26But people are like, "Wo, she's so

31:29pretty." Nizens also noticed that in her

31:31Instagram post, she doesn't have a

31:32single picture with anybody else. None.

31:35Not even one where she's sitting at a

31:36restaurant and someone is sitting next

31:38to her, but she covers their face. She

31:39has zero pictures with anybody else.

31:41People are saying this is kind of odd.

31:44She doesn't have any friends. She

31:46doesn't have any family, but she's going

31:47on so many dates. This is weird. Other

31:50people are saying that she seems to have

31:51a fixation on this song that is now in

31:53hindsight a little bit creepy. It's

31:55called Damon's Year by Josie and the

31:57translated lyrics read, "Whenever you

31:59look at the moon, your eyes get bigger."

32:02Which people are like, "This sounds like

32:03when people are really drugged up

32:05[music] looking at the reflection in

32:07your eyes. What you love is the same as

32:09me. I see you without knowing the

32:10flowers are blooming, hugging your fine

32:12shadow, kissing you like it's the last

32:13time. Let's not get old. Take it all so

32:16there's no regrets. Leave nothing

32:17behind, my love. Good night, my crying

32:19love. And in between her second victim's

32:24death and her arrest, she posted 41

32:26Instagram stories and posts. She's

32:28obsessed with posting online. But the

32:30thing that becomes almost a second crime

32:32is what I said. Everyone thinks that she

32:34[music] is the prettiest killer alive.

32:36And by everyone, I mean just like a

32:38small portion of the internet. And

32:39they're very loud about it. men in South

32:41Korea were going to vouch for her in the

32:43comments. Like, if you just release her

32:45to me, I'm sure I could fix her for you.

32:48She's got like the girl next door look,

32:50slightly innocent way, except all of her

32:52Instagram pictures show lots of

32:54cleavage. So, like her face looks

32:56innocent, but her boobs are always out.

32:58All the pictures are angled, so it's

33:00like the main focal point is her chest.

33:02It's usually from the top down angle.

33:04That's the type of picture that she

33:06likes to post. And some men in Korea

33:08really, really, really want to save her.

33:09[music] So, for the past 4 months, Kim

33:12Toyong has been very busy and they don't

33:15care. So, the police are like, "Hey

33:17guys, stop with this nonsense. We're

33:20just going to let you know what this

33:21crazy lady has been doing so you know

33:23what you're dealing with." October 25th,

33:252025, at a restaurant in Kangnam, a man

33:28named H collapses while drinking white

33:30wine with Hoyong. She calls 911 or the

33:33emergency line. He was just drinking

33:34white wine and just suddenly collapsed.

33:37Yeah, just come quickly. She's so

33:39nonchalant. Employee says the whole

33:41thing was weird. I clocked in at 5:00

33:44p.m. There was a couple at one of the

33:45tables. Man was slumped over asleep on

33:47the table. At first, I thought nothing

33:48of it. But then 30 minutes later, he's

33:50still like that. So, I'm like, "Okay,

33:51something is clearly wrong." I

33:53approached them. I just figured up until

33:55this point, if the woman needed help

33:56genuinely, she would have asked for it.

33:58But when I went over to ask her if she

34:00needs help, she told me he was passed

34:01out drunk. So, I asked her, "Is that

34:03your boyfriend?" She says, "We've only

34:05been dating for like 2 days. I don't

34:06even know his drinking tolerance." The

34:08server checks the tab. They only had two

34:11glasses of wine ordered to the table.

34:12And the glass of wine in front of the

34:14boyfriend is has a lot of wine left in

34:16it. It just felt off. Do you want me to

34:19call the emergency line for you? Sure.

34:23She calls the emergency dispatch, hands

34:25it to Soyong, and Soong's like, "I

34:27barely know the guy. We were just

34:29drinking white wine and he passed out."

34:302 months later, December 14th, 2025,

34:3311:20 a.m. So tries to kill her

34:35boyfriend, ex-boyfriend in the bakery

34:37parking lot. He's hospitalized for 2

34:39days, unconscious, and she's there

34:41playing the doting girlfriend. But when

34:43she gets home, she writes in her

34:44journal, specifically that day. Dose

34:47only knocked him out. It didn't [music]

34:48kill him. January 24th, 2026, a man is

34:51in a karaoke bar with a girl he just

34:53met, private room, collapses on the

34:55ground. 911 is called. She says, "He

34:58just won't wake up. I didn't know what

35:00to do. I just met him. I'm here for the

35:02first time on a date. I don't even know

35:03his home address. Like, how am I

35:05supposed to take him home? The ambulance

35:07comes. And side note, the owner of this

35:09karaoke bar said the woman, she paid and

35:12she tried to leave alone without the

35:14man. And the man wouldn't wake up no

35:16matter how much we shook him. And it's

35:17actually company policy. If you come and

35:19get a private room, you can't leave any

35:21of your friends drunk. You have to take

35:22them with you because the business

35:24doesn't want to be liable for these

35:25drunk people who are passed out in these

35:26private rooms. and she's telling us just

35:29wake him up and kick him out when you

35:30have the chance. We're like, "No, our

35:32policy says you cannot leave your

35:34companions." So, I told her that and

35:36that's when she rolls your eyes and she

35:37called emergency dispatch. There's a guy

35:40here who's really drunk and I keep

35:41trying to wake him up and he won't get

35:42up. He's had way too much to drink. I

35:44don't even know where he lives. This is

35:46my first time meeting him. Are you

35:48trying to take him home or are you

35:49trying to take him to the hospital? I

35:51don't know. I don't know where he lives.

35:53Like I said, I just met him today. Okay,

35:55we'll send medical and police. Her fifth

35:57and sixth victims were both found dead

35:59in motel rooms, and the method of

36:01killing was the same in both, the

36:02hangover drinks in Korea. They're sold

36:05at every convenience store they're

36:06marketed as helping your body process

36:08alcohol faster. It's like a detox. Toy

36:10would go home and using the back of her

36:12kitchen knife, she would crush up all of

36:14her prescription pills that she is

36:16prescribed for PTSD. She uses a piece of

36:19paper, funnels them into the hangover

36:20drink, and throws those in her purse for

36:23dates.

36:25And when she goes on a date, and what's

36:26crazy about these dates is nobody

36:29approaches her. She religiously goes to

36:31the hunting bars looking for dates.

36:33She's always on Instagram at local

36:35community posts and writing things like,

36:37"You like bullying? I like bullying,

36:39too. We should bowl together on random

36:41guys pages. She's initiating these

36:43dates. Once she goes on the date, she'll

36:45be drinking with the men and she'll look

36:47up with them with a warm smile and say,

36:48"Oh, I have something for you." Remember

36:50how I mentioned in our text messages, I

36:52always get really bad hangovers for work

36:54and [music] it sucks. Which, by the way,

36:56the police found evidence of these types

36:57of messages? She would say these things

36:59before the date. Well, I always carry

37:01around these hangover detox drinks to

37:03just make sure the hangover isn't bad.

37:04Here, you should try one. Instead of

37:06sobering up, these men would take the

37:07hangover drink. They would suddenly

37:08start feeling nauseous as if the world

37:10is getting distorted. [music] Their

37:12stomachs would start turning. Their

37:13tongues get stiff. They can't talk. They

37:16lose consciousness. and Soong [music]

37:18would just stare at them. There's no

37:21particular blend of prescription pills

37:22that Toy cared about. It's not like she

37:24was some sick [music] twisted

37:25pharmacist. She just took whatever she

37:27could get that was strong. She would

37:29collect prescription pills. They call it

37:30medical shopping. So, it's when you go

37:33around to various psych psychiatric

37:35clinics to get prescription meds and

37:36just pick up at variousarmacies.

37:39And there's no sort of regulated system

37:41in Korea where certain drugs can be

37:44bypassed. Obviously, you're not going to

37:45get controlled substances. I imagine

37:48like in the US it would be easier to get

37:51maybe two different SSRIs prescribed

37:54versus getting two aderall prescriptions

37:57cuz it's not a controlled substance. The

37:58SSRIs

38:00>> there's not much of an oversight system

38:02that can prevent people from doing this.

38:03And she's just experimenting with

38:05different dosages and increasing the

38:07concentration to affect the victims.

38:08It's like she's researching. And the

38:10weirdest part of each crime is her

38:12obsession with food. She's obsessed with

38:16food. All she does on these dates is

38:19consume and order large quantities of

38:22food. It's not even like she

38:25It's weird. She likes the food, but it

38:27seems like she likes the idea of food

38:29more. It's almost like she likes the

38:31idea of spending every single dollar she

38:35can get out of these men. Like for

38:37example, just to give you an idea, the

38:39fried chicken that she ordered, well,

38:41first of all, that was after her second

38:43victim died in the motel room. She was

38:46laying there as he's dying on the motel

38:48bed, took his credit card and ordered

38:50fried chicken to the motel room and

38:51waited in the motel room while he's

38:53actively dying in the motel bed for the

38:56fried chicken order. And this is a huge

38:58order with 22 items cuz I feel like with

39:01inflation in the US, $100 worth of fried

39:04chicken sounds like a lot of fried

39:05chicken, but just to give you an idea of

39:07how much chicken it really is. 2 and 1/2

39:10chickens in four different flavors.

39:12Tokpoki instant rice drinks sauces black

39:15cheese ball extra devil sauce red pepper

39:17mayo sauce bottle big cheese stick

39:19instant rice oil toki onion ranch sauce

39:21extracolor ball three-piece Coke zero

39:24times two extra rice cakes potato wedges

39:26red pepper mayo sauce big bottle

39:28>> all of that.

39:29>> Yeah,

39:29>> for $60.

39:31>> Yeah. And the delivery guy, he remembers

39:33Kimoyong, too. He's delivering the fried

39:35chicken. And well, by the way, the

39:37owners of the fried chicken shop, they

39:38were so excited because business has

39:40been slow. This is one of their biggest

39:41orders. So, they were really excited to

39:43get the fried chicken hot to the motel.

39:44And the driver is like, they're all on

39:46the same page. They're rushing to get it

39:47there. And he goes and he's like, "I

39:49feel like I have the wrong address

39:50because this is enough to feed honestly

39:5210 people. 10 people could eat this

39:53fried chicken and be full." And so, he's

39:55expecting some sort of crazy party in

39:56the motel room. The door opens, no

39:59sound, no TV on, nothing. Dead silent.

40:02And Kimoyong, she has the weirdest blank

40:06expression on her face. It's so entirely

40:08blank. It's not not smiling. It's not

40:12angry. It's just empty. He doesn't know

40:14how to explain it. It's just empty. Her

40:17blank expression. It's freaky. And he's

40:20like, "It's heavy. It's a lot of fried

40:22chicken."

40:24Yeah. And she just takes it and closes

40:27the door. He was like, "It was so It was

40:29just unsettling."

40:31But even with all this information,

40:33there are some netizens who believe that

40:35she can't be evil because look at her

40:36Instagram pictures and she's only 20.

40:38Why would she need to be a serial

40:39killer? Netzens started holding on to

40:41dear life on the one statement that she

40:43made to the police that she wanted to

40:44avoid confrontation with men. So some

40:46people are like maybe the men were

40:48asking for it.

40:49>> So okay, a couple questions, right? Is

40:51she just a liar? Why is she lying about

40:53she like making her age older and

40:56>> she's Yeah, I think she's a pathological

40:58liar.

40:59>> Just li like to Okay.

41:00>> Yeah.

41:01>> And then you were saying like the

41:02journal she's writing, oh this didn't

41:04kill him. Are there more? Yeah, she's

41:06just talking about dosages but nothing

41:08else in her journal.

41:10>> Okay, so that's the only information we

41:12have. Did she didn't write after she

41:14killed someone, she didn't write, oh

41:15that I that worked or whatever.

41:17>> I think she did, but it was very simple

41:19like it worked. Doubling dosage next

41:21time. Some people are saying maybe she

41:23genuinely thought maybe these guys were

41:25being sexually pushy and she just

41:26thought that she could make them pass

41:27out so that she wouldn't have to be

41:29pressured to have intimate relations

41:30with them after the date. Comments read,

41:32"He was a stranger that followed her.

41:34you know, he kind of asked for it. The

41:36guy must have been acting up for her to

41:38want to sedate him. She takes the same

41:39pills herself. She probably didn't think

41:40that he would die. She said he was she

41:43was just trying to put him to sleep.

41:44There must have been a reason. Like, I'm

41:45curious about her past. But the doctor

41:47who worked on this case, they state even

41:49if she only wanted to sedate these men,

41:51she would have only needed one sleeping

41:53pill. Why was there a cocktail of

41:55anti-depressants and other drugs on top

41:57of that? The combination clearly goes

41:58beyond what's needed for sleep. Little

42:00by little, people start putting in tips

42:03and more information about Kim Soyong's

42:05entire family and childhood start coming

42:06out. Her dad was violent. He would come

42:08home drunk, assault their mother,

42:10urinate, and defecate everywhere in the

42:12house. She seems to have some level of

42:14PTSD as described by her doctor. Dad

42:17leaves. Mom works through the night to

42:18support two kids, but that doesn't mean

42:20that she can just go kill people. And on

42:22top of that, there's just a lot of

42:23alarming stories coming out. She dropped

42:25out of middle school, later was expelled

42:27from high school. Even part-time jobs, a

42:30lot of her former employees and bosses,

42:32like co-workers and bosses, would come

42:34out and they said she got fired and

42:36couldn't hold down a job for such a long

42:38time. She would consistently manipulate

42:41co-workers against each other and just

42:43cause so much dysfunction in the

42:45workplace, it was impossible. She

42:47suffered from physical and verbal abuse

42:50from her childhood, but that doesn't

42:51really negate any of the things that she

42:53did. Stories from her childhood just

42:55start piling on. And people say, "If

42:58she's around, your glasses, your wallet,

43:00your lipstick that you've been using for

43:023 years, like it doesn't matter how old

43:04or useless these items were, they would

43:06just disappear." Like this girl has

43:07sticky fingers. One girl got her AirPods

43:10stolen in middle school and she goes on

43:12to Carrot, which is like eBay, but or

43:14like Facebook Marketplace to just buy

43:16another pair of used ones because she's

43:18like, I don't want to buy new AirPods.

43:19She goes on there and someone is selling

43:22one that looks exactly like hers. I

43:23don't know if she had like a sticker on

43:25there, but what are the odds? So, the

43:26girl goes to her home room teacher in

43:28middle school and she's like, I want to

43:29do a sting operation. I'm pissed off. I

43:32want to go and act like I'm buying these

43:34used AirPods and I want to see who's

43:35selling my stolen AirPods. They arrive

43:38to the meeting spot and guess who it is?

43:41Middle schoolyear-old Kim Hoyong. And

43:43they're asking her like, "How could you

43:45do something like this?" And her

43:47reaction is so blank. She just says,

43:50"Yeah, whatever. You want it back or

43:51not?" And hands the AirPods back.

43:55Speaking of resale, people found her

43:57Carrot website, like her account. She

44:00has over 100 items listed on sale for

44:02Carrot and suspiciously they're all

44:04men's clothes. And it's not even that

44:05expensive. There would be like a $56

44:07blazer, a $19 button-up, a $23 shirt.

44:11There's a lot of interesting things

44:13happening there. But the one thing about

44:14the middle school, the AirPods, is she

44:17distinctly remembers her AirPods got

44:19stolen. So is caught selling them. She

44:21gets expelled from middle school, kicked

44:22out, transferred, and Soyong is the one

44:25that goes and unfollows everyone from

44:27middle school on social media. Not only

44:28that, she blocks them. She mass blocks

44:30them as if they all stole from her.

44:33Another story comes out about a girl

44:35that went to a club with Kimuyang and

44:37she said, "I immediately just got a

44:39really bad vibe from her." She was

44:41always asking me really invasive

44:42questions like, "I'm so jealous you have

44:44your own place. How much money do you

44:46have? Why can't I just come live with

44:48you? Why don't you introduce me to a

44:51boyfriend?" Later at a youth facility,

44:53Kimong meets this Uni, which is like an

44:56older sister figure. And one day the

44:58uni's wallet and AirPods go missing and

45:00she tells Kimoyang about it and Kimuyong

45:03has this really punan attitude. It's

45:07[sighs] I guess audacious would be a

45:10similar word. Not really. There's a

45:11little more nuance to the Korean word,

45:13but perhaps. And she would just look at

45:16the onion and say, "That sucks. I'm so

45:19sorry. If I even had a dollar to my

45:21name, I would offer it to you."

45:23>> What? It's just like a really weird It's

45:25just like a really weird thing to say.

45:28Like what do you what do you mean if

45:29even if I had a dollar to my name, I

45:30would offer it to you. But not as weird

45:32as when they check the cameras and they

45:33realize Kimo is the one that stole from

45:35her. The wallet she returns. And then

45:37the on is like, "Well, my AirPods, you

45:39took my AirPods, too." I don't have them

45:41anymore. What did you do with them? Did

45:43you sell them? No. I crushed them up and

45:46I flushed them down the toilet.

45:48That's not the only thing that she would

45:49steal. She would steal straight up

45:51pictures, photos of other people hanging

45:53out and then pretend that they were her

45:55own and post them on her own Instagram.

45:58One other girl says

45:59>> she would literally screenshot every

46:01story that I posted and then repost it

46:03as if it were her Instagram story. When

46:05confronted about it, Soong would tell

46:07her that she's doing it to get revenge

46:09on an ex-boyfriend and then she just

46:11went and blocked everybody. Sometimes

46:13she would message these like she would

46:15unblock the girls that she hates and

46:17then write in their comments, "Fuck off

46:19you piece of shit." And it's like, "You

46:22block me." Sometimes she would write,

46:24"God, you look so sleazy. So sleazy."

46:26Another comment is quote, "Your face has

46:28some fat in it and all your features are

46:30buried in the fat."

46:32But with that, there are still comments

46:34supporting. Some people are saying, "She

46:36just wants to meet a boyfriend, and

46:38dating is so hard in this day and age.

46:41She just felt used by men. She just

46:42wanted real genuine connection. Comments

46:45about the way she looks reads, "She's

46:47like really pretty." She looks I mean I

46:51would drink the drink immediately too.

46:53She has genuinely beautiful eyes. Like

46:56they're sharp and yet beautiful and just

46:58like breathtaking.

47:00In a world where everyone kills each

47:01other, she just happened to get caught.

47:03I don't really think we should think

47:05much into it. Pretty face, well put

47:08together, she's [music] got interest,

47:11just wanting love. I mean, she looks

47:12exactly like a typical girl her age.

47:14Looking through all her social media

47:16posts, it's sad that there's not a

47:17single picture with another person, you

47:19know? [music]

47:20It seems like maybe she's lonely. I

47:22mean, she's got to serve her time. But I

47:24hope she gets to live a second life in

47:26genuine [music] reflection. She's a true

47:28beauty. The meme in Korea suddenly

47:31became, "If she's pretty, she must be

47:33forgiven." There is a checkpoint in

47:35Korea that has to be met for the

47:37identity of a perpetrator to be

47:38disclosed. The method of the crime has

47:40to be brutal. There has to be

47:42significant harm caused. There must be

47:44sufficient evidence to believe the

47:45suspect committed the crime. And there

47:47must be public interest, which there's

47:49enough information that she definitely

47:51committed these crimes. There is public

47:52interest. It's significant harm. She

47:54killed two people. But the brutal part,

47:57the prosecutors state the manner of the

47:59death and the killings was not brutal.

48:01They think, you know, you got to behead

48:03someone in order for that to be

48:05considered brutal. There's a lot of

48:07cases where someone was dismembered and

48:09that was up for debate about whether the

48:10perpetrator's identity should be

48:12released. That type of statement, the

48:14victim's families were besides

48:16themselves. They exploded. The internet

48:18rallied behind them. Like, how dare you

48:20decide if something is brutal or not.

48:22These people were killed and their

48:23families are now they have to watch

48:25everybody say, "Look how pretty she is.

48:27Look how pretty she is. There's no

48:28accountability. Like, what the hell are

48:29you guys doing?" Police, they won't

48:32release it. So, the public are like, "We

48:34got to do something. This causes a whole

48:36stir and finally because you can't put

48:38the toothpaste back in the tube.

48:40Everybody's already seen her pictures on

48:41social media. Victim's family are upset.

48:44Under that pressure, the prosecutors

48:46release Kimong's name, age, and her

48:48mugsh shot photos, and there is almost a

48:50collective silence in South Korea. The

48:53comments read, "I think they arrested

48:55the wrong person. Are we sure these

48:57aren't two different suspects?" Other

48:59people are commenting, "This level of

49:01editing she does for her photos would

49:02bankrupt AI. It would use too many

49:04resources to sustain that just for her

49:06Instagram page. Others are saying, "So

49:08everybody looks like a supermodel on

49:10Instagram and I don't see a single one

49:11of them on the street. The retouching on

49:12her photos must be insane."

49:15>> People went from defending her because

49:17she was the prettiest killer alive to

49:19now hating her because she's ugly in her

49:22mug shots.

49:23>> Really? Yeah. Like she looks completely

49:26different.

49:26>> Completely different. If her Instagram

49:27photo and her mug shot photos, I would

49:29say absolutely not. They're not even

49:30related. They're not even sisters. So

49:32she's catfishing people. Yeah. Too

49:34>> nizens decide that Kim Toyang, And this

49:36is where it gets crazy. Okay. A lot of

49:39male netizens created a ranking of all

49:42the recent female killers.

49:44>> In South Korea, their Instagram picture

49:46and then their real mug shot. And people

49:49decide that Kimong is actually ranked on

49:51the uglier side of the female killers in

49:53South Korea.

49:54>> Yeah. I don't know why they made that

49:56ranking, but one person comments, "We

49:58were tricked by the photo fillers."

49:59Looks completely different from her

50:01Instagram. I take everything I said

50:02about her back. Others say she looks way

50:05older than 20. Another comment reads,

50:07and this got a lot of likes. Add some

50:09fraud charges, too. And a lot of women

50:12were very upset, rightfully, and they

50:14were commenting, "Korean men cannot go a

50:16single day without rating a woman's

50:18looks." But Kimoyang is not going down

50:21without a fight. She starts releasing,

50:23and there the trial is happening this

50:25month for this case in Korea. Okay,

50:28>> she starts releasing letters in prison

50:30to journalists, begging journalists to

50:33air her words. A lot of people believe

50:35that she's manipulative and she's

50:37writing some crazy things. Every single

50:39letter reminds me of that very

50:42narcissistic person that you probably

50:44have encountered in your life at some

50:46point or another. You tell them, "Hey,

50:49narcissistic person, I didn't really

50:51enjoy it when you called me really ugly

50:54and disgusting to look at and then

50:55punched me in the face and then tried to

50:57ruin my life. So like maybe you cannot

51:00do that ever again." And they go, "Oh,

51:03sorry. I'll just go kill myself." And

51:05you're like, "Okay, well that's not what

51:08I said at all, is that?" All of her

51:10letters are written like this. This is

51:13direct quotes. I should have died just

51:15when my dad was beating me. I should

51:17have just died then. I should have

51:19self-exited. Even when I took those

51:20online depression tests, it put me at

51:22the death stage, the most severe level.

51:24Why did I call my mom asking help for

51:26surviving when I fell into the ocean as

51:28a kid? I should have just drowned. I

51:30should have just disappeared where

51:31nobody could have ever found me. Even

51:33then, my mom pulled me out of the water

51:34thinking that I was going to drown deep

51:36and submerged like that. But I survived.

51:38When I choked on that piece of candy as

51:39a kid and couldn't breathe, I should

51:41have just died. Even then, if my mom

51:43hadn't done the Heimlick maneuver, the

51:45candy would have stayed stuck and I

51:46would have died without being able to

51:47breathe. But I survived. Like, what? She

51:51starts describing how she used to try

51:52and self-exit and how she's annoyed that

51:54it didn't succeed. And like, coming from

51:57someone who has been in dark places in

51:58her life, like this, I don't see this to

52:02be true at all. Like, the fact that

52:03she's like, "When I choked on a piece of

52:05candy when I was a kid, I should have

52:06just died then. It's so manipulative."

52:08She continues, "I should have just let

52:10myself get stabbed by the knife that my

52:12dad threw at me. I should have just run

52:14into it. Then my mom wouldn't have to

52:16stay up all night blocking the door with

52:17her body all night to protect my sister

52:19and me, putting herself through all of

52:20that. If I had just been stabbed by his

52:22knife back then, there would have been

52:23none of this pain now. It would have

52:24been so much easier for me. Then my mom

52:26and sister could live better lives and I

52:27couldn't protect them. Everyone probably

52:29wants me dead anyway. If I'm going to

52:31get life in prison anyway, if I'm going

52:32to spend my whole life without seeing my

52:34family, I would rather die. Living

52:36scares me. If I had died back then,

52:38would I have been at peace? Would my

52:39mother and sister have had life a bit

52:41easier?

52:42Then she writes another letter to the

52:44journalist and she's like, "You got to

52:45air these letters." By the way, the

52:47journalist is like, "Okay, I will." I

52:50think she genuinely thinks that she is

52:51manipulating the public.

52:52>> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

52:53>> Yeah.

52:54>> But nobody's buying it at this point.

52:55[clears throat]

52:56>> Everyone's like, "Are you dumb?"

52:57>> Like, what's happening? Another letter

52:59reads, "I miss my mom. I'm scared. I

53:01want to be next to her. I want her to

53:02hold me. Please don't abandon me. I'm

53:04desperately, gut-wrenchingly regretful.

53:06I will faithfully accept punishment for

53:07what I did wrong. I'm sorry for

53:09shattering everyone's ordinary lives.

53:10Right now, I have two feelings fighting

53:12inside of me. Wanting to die because

53:14it's all so hard, and wanting to live.

53:16Mom, I need to eat your cooking one more

53:17time before I die. No one believes me,

53:19and I have no one in my corner. I know

53:21y'all all probably just hear it as

53:22excuses, but I'll write down the general

53:24gist of what I want to say. Even when I

53:26try to hold back tears, every single day

53:28is hard and terrifying. I'm crying all

53:29the time. I'm drained and exhausted. I

53:31don't want to live anymore. I'm someone

53:32with a lot of questions. And this is my

53:34first time inside a detention center and

53:36there's so much I want to ask, but

53:38everyone is busy and I can't even get

53:39anyone to answer. It's so suffocating.

53:41It's hard. I ask and then I get no

53:44response. Being separated from my family

53:46in a place I've never been before, my

53:47heart just rots and tears apart every

53:49day. Every single day. The fact that the

53:51garbage who calls himself my dad is

53:53watching my face in this case play out

53:54in the media makes me feel sick. All

53:56this media coverage is torture. My

53:58identity being made public and everybody

54:00recognize me is just so hard. Just being

54:02separated from my mom is devastating.

54:04And I can't sleep. I cry every day. I'm

54:06so worn out from crying.

54:08>> It's like gibberish.

54:10>> Yeah.

54:10>> It's like she couldn't make up what she

54:12wanted to say. Like one point she wanted

54:14to play sad, one point she wanted to

54:15play this, and then she was like

54:16complaining about this.

54:18>> Yeah. Because I think she's trying so

54:19hard to not write down her real

54:21thoughts.

54:22>> Yeah.

54:23>> She's like, there's no one to open up

54:24to, no place to talk about the pain I'm

54:26carrying as a suspect. I wish they would

54:28expand the counseling services inside

54:30detention centers. It's just so hard.

54:33Then she writes, "The journalist is

54:34like, "Okay, enough. Like, enough about

54:36this. I'm not going to air any more

54:38letters like this. Can you tell me why

54:39you did what you did?" They just tell me

54:41that. And she writes, "I'm not denying

54:44that I didn't give him the drugs, but I

54:45want to properly explain why I did it."

54:47Because I was scared of being essayed.

54:49No one ever listens to my side, and it's

54:51so hard. I never thought and wanted to

54:53kill someone. I was just so scared that

54:54they would essay me and keep me there

54:56and not let me go. And in a moment of

54:57poor judgment, I mixed the drug into

54:59hangover drink, gave it to them, put

55:00them to sleep. I was so traumatized and

55:02scared. I just wanted them to fall

55:03asleep so I could leave. And then once

55:05they were soaring, I would just leave. I

55:07had absolutely no idea that they would

55:09die. I had no plan. I had no intention

55:11to kill. I brought these hangover drinks

55:13with me to protect myself just in case.

55:15I had absolutely no idea that it would

55:17end up killing someone. I just wish that

55:19I had ended up as nothing more than a

55:21victim. Then none of this would have

55:23blown up like this. Like no one would be

55:24suffering like this. I'm so sorry for

55:26the victims and their families and to my

55:27own family. I was so scared and

55:29terrified. I should have just been the

55:30victim and nothing more. She's like, I

55:32should have just been essayed by them.

55:34Which, by the way, none of these men,

55:36and I am the last person to like root

55:39for men and going on dates with people

55:40that you've never met before. Like,

55:42trust me, none of these men were trying

55:43to essay her evidenced by the text

55:45messages. She is the one begging them to

55:48get a motel room because the restaurant

55:50that she wants to try is delivery only.

55:53It's not like she goes on a date and

55:54they spend all this money and then

55:55they're like, "Let's go to a motel."

55:57>> So premeditated.

55:58>> Yes.

55:59>> Try to kill them in a motel [music]

56:00room.

56:01>> Premeditated. She's always asking for a

56:03motel. Always. She's the one that brings

56:06it up repeatedly, repeatedly,

56:07repeatedly. And it's not this spur-of

56:10the- moment where she carries her

56:11sleeping pills with her because that's

56:12her prescription medication. She grinds

56:14them up, puts them in the hangover

56:17drink. And not only that, you know how

56:18there in one of the motel rooms, there's

56:20a hangover for drink on the side that

56:22gets tested, it comes back clean, no

56:24drugs. She carries multiple bottles, one

56:27with drugs and one that's clean. She

56:29pours out the clean one and leaves it so

56:31that when police test it later, it comes

56:33back clean.

56:34>> Wa.

56:35>> And you're telling me there's no

56:36premeditation? She's writing in her

56:38journal the dosage didn't knock him out.

56:41It was only a nuisance because he kept

56:42waking up.

56:44>> But do we know her motive? Is it is it

56:46money? Is it

56:48>> money?

56:48>> It's pretty much money, right? Stealing.

56:51>> Yeah. The reporter sends her another

56:53letter asking, "What thoughts take up

56:55most of your time inside prison? Like,

56:57how has your outlook on life changed

56:59since the incident?" And she rambles

57:01briefly about her sister and mom before

57:03responding, "Why are so many strangers

57:05sending me letters? Honestly, these

57:06people are really weird. Um, why has my

57:09life been so rough? You know, I think

57:10about that. If I could turn back time, I

57:12would. Does everyone want me dead? Can I

57:15survive inside of here? I'm just so

57:17exhausted. When I was little, if I had

57:19just let my dad stab me with that knife,

57:21none of this would have happened. No one

57:23would be suffering. Media coverage is

57:25truly terrifying. Like, I get it now why

57:27people would self-exit from it. Nobody's

57:30on my side. Nobody's going to help me.

57:33Am I a psychopath? I'm going to die in

57:36here without seeing my family. Why is my

57:37mom not visiting? This is so hard. Why

57:40did I do that? I'm scared. I miss my

57:42mom. She continues to rant. Mental

57:45health treatment for suspects needs to

57:47be expanded. Counseling inside detention

57:49centers should be available all the

57:50time, as often as needed. Please listen

57:53to what suspects have to say. The media

57:55reports so much without actually knowing

57:57the facts. I think that kind of

57:58reporting can kill people, can kill

58:00suspects.

58:03[laughter]

58:04>> What the

58:05>> Yeah, I don't know what to say. Even the

58:08top comments about her strange letters

58:10read, "She seems like she has very low

58:12IQ based on how she writes, and it looks

58:14like she also has some sort of victim

58:15complex, too. Going to have a rough time

58:17in that prison." That one. Another one

58:19reads, "She'll probably try the same

58:21routine in prison, playing the victim,

58:23crying poor in me, you know, turning

58:25trying to turn people against each

58:26other, and she'll get dealt with

58:28accordingly." Another reads, "Hey, if

58:30there's one person out there reading

58:32this letter thinking, wait, could she be

58:34telling the truth?" You got to be

58:35careful because people like her,

58:37everything that comes out of her mouth

58:38is a lie except when she's breathing.

58:41Some people are defending her writing,

58:43saying she didn't want to get assaulted.

58:44She just wanted to hang out, put them to

58:46sleep, and leave. That doesn't qualify

58:47as premeditated murder. Maybe she's just

58:49dumb and didn't realize 50 pills was

58:51going to kill them.

58:51>> They wrote 50 pills.

58:53>> Yeah,

58:53>> 50 pills.

58:54>> Yeah.

58:55>> Okay. But that is also not applicable

58:58because there are other chat GPT

59:00questions that she had asked where she

59:01writes, "What happens when you take

59:03sleeping pills and drink alcohol at the

59:05same time? If someone takes a lot of

59:06sleeping pills, will they die?" In the

59:09police report, they included the exact

59:11response that she received. And they

59:12were like, "Yeah, you're going to die.

59:15You cannot do that." And the worst part

59:17is there is a lot of anger with the

59:19police right now. So her very first

59:22killing was 11 days before her second

59:24killing. After the very first killing,

59:27they were able to find the motel CCTV

59:29footage and they found that it's Kimong

59:31linked to the incident. They called Kim

59:34Hoyong and they were going to arrange

59:36for a time for her to come in for a

59:38police interview

59:39>> and during that time she killed another

59:41person.

59:41>> Yeah. I guess they thought it was oh

59:44there's no way that she killed him.

59:45Maybe he was doing drugs. They were

59:47thinking of all these things and they

59:48didn't think that it would be that

59:50pertinent to go investigate immediately.

59:52But they could have very easily

59:54prevented the second death

59:56>> and they didn't. And then on top of

59:57that, the victim's families are upset

59:59because all this rhetoric online is,

1:00:01"Oh, well the men were asking for it

1:00:03because they were probably going to

1:00:04essay her." And it's like, "No, they

1:00:06weren't. They weren't even the ones that

1:00:07wanted to get a motel." She

1:00:09specifically, there's so many messages

1:00:10between the two victims where she's

1:00:12like, "You get the motel room. You get

1:00:13the motel room. Oh, my favorite

1:00:15restaurant only delivers. They don't do

1:00:16dining in. You have to get a motel room.

1:00:18Get this motel room. A lot of people are

1:00:21confused about the motive. I think the

1:00:23motive is um money, but it's a small

1:00:25amount of money and food that it's

1:00:27puzzling to people, but experts [music]

1:00:30say that she treated victims like a test

1:00:32subject. They're not human beings to

1:00:34her. They're just objects, and she

1:00:36controls them, studies them,

1:00:37experiments, and then just discards at

1:00:40her own will. That's it. She's going to

1:00:43be on trial for two counts of murder,

1:00:46aggravated assault, and violation of the

1:00:48Narcotics [music] Control Act. Keemong

1:00:50has written to a very close source in

1:00:53jail that she's scared of getting life

1:00:55in prison and the fact that people are

1:00:57calling her a psychopath.

1:00:58>> Psychopath, huh?

1:01:00>> Yeah. And then she told this insider

1:01:02that she's really upset about the food

1:01:03in prison. She says, "Sometimes I eat

1:01:06it, sometimes I don't because it's not

1:01:07very good."

1:01:08>> Interesting. The food obsession. And

1:01:10that is where we are with this case. One

1:01:12netizen comment reads, "The fact that

1:01:14she killed people over a few chicken

1:01:16dinners, not even millions of dollars,

1:01:18is is disturbing." Other people are

1:01:21saying she killed them so she could eat

1:01:23fried chicken by herself. I'm so

1:01:25confused what this world is turning

1:01:26into. So with that, what are your

1:01:29thoughts on this case? Let me know in

1:01:31the comments, and I'll see you in the

1:01:32next one. Stay [music] safe.