The darkish and twisted minds of serial killers will at all times elude viewers. In the case of TV and films, the trade has capitalized on the phenomenon behind what makes a killer tick. It’s no totally different for Korean dramas as many within the crime style use murders as their important antagonists. Followers will discover many Ok-dramas or episodes are primarily based on real-life crime instances.
With Netflix releasing their first docu-series about Korea’s infamous killer, Yoo Younger-chul, it leaves the query if different Korean instances infiltrated the small-screen. Placing apart romance and love triangles, these Ok-dramas retell the harrowing homicide tales and crimes that shocked Korean residents.
‘Signal’ used two Korean crime instances that angered residents (Netflix)
One of the acknowledged actual crime Ok-dramas is 2016’s Sign. The drama has a singular supernatural ingredient as a detective from the previous communicates with a felony profiler within the current by a walkie-talkie to unravel instances. Sign obtained excessive claims for its darkish storyline, performing, and use of real-life crime instances. Serial killer Lee Choon-jae was Korea’s first identified killer who dedicated the Hwaseong serial murders from 1989 to 1991.
In Sign, a serial killer mimics the Modus Operandi and the story of Lee. Actor Lee Sang-yeob appeared as Kim Jin-woo for a couple of episodes and mimic Yoo Younger-chul’s homicide technique. However, Sign additionally used one other felony case that was not homicide. One episode of the Ok-drama was impressed by the Miryang center faculty assault incident from 2004.
‘Mouse’ Ok-drama is loosely impressed by an actual 2017 homicide case (Viki)
The 2021 serial killer Ok-drama Mouse was the third hottest drama when it debuted. Mouse’s premise centered on the query that has alluded psychologists and society. The usually debated query of whether or not or not a assassin is created due to their atmosphere or born to kill. In response to Soompi, the drama asks “What if we could identify psychopaths in advance by DNA testing of fetuses?”
Mouse’s scriptwriter was impressed by the Incheon Elementary Faculty Homicide case from 2017. Two perpetrators kidnapped and lured a younger lady to the constructing she lived in. The killers then murdered and dismember the physique and confirmed no regret on the court docket trial. The perpetrators’ lack of guilt shocked Korean residents. Within the Ok-drama, a scientist is ready to detect if an individual has a murderous gene that can inevitably trigger them to develop into a serial killer with no responsible conscience.
‘Taxi Driver’ has sure episodes that mimic Yoo Younger-chul’s homicide story (Viki)
When needing a riveting darkish crime Ok-drama, Taxi Driver is a must-watch. For viewers who’re accustomed to Korea’s serial killer Yoo Younger-chul, they’d have seen the parallels with a personality in episodes 11 and 15. Taxi Driver is a couple of group of people who work for Rainbow Taxi and enact revenge for victims the justice system failed to assist.
The Ok-drama launched a brand new storyline ingredient involving a convicted killer. Oh Chul-young (Yang Dong-tak) is already in jail for a number of murders. The Ok-drama describes him as a psychopath and makes use of Yoo’s M.O. as his backstory. In Taxi Driver, Chul-young murdered 20 individuals by bludgeoning them to dying.
In flashback scenes, he would kill his victims within the toilet and centered on intercourse staff. The Netflix docu-series The Raincoat Killer: Chasing a Predator in Korea additionally defined Yoo confessed to murders he didn’t commit. In Taxi Driver, Chul-young confesses he admitted to 2 murders he didn’t commit for fame.