Murder of knife rampage in Seonghwan, Cheonan, South Korea in 2022
On April 13, 2022, a knife rampage occurred at around 0:13 a.m. in Seonghwan-eup, Cheonan-si, Chungcheongnam-do. According to the police, Kim (54 years old at the time) allegedly killed two women in her 30s by wielding a weapon against two couples who had a quarrel on the sidewalk in front of a karaoke room in Seonghwan-eup, Seobuk-gu, Cheonan. The husbands of the victim couple were reportedly devastated while waiting for a chauffeur to return home after the dinner gathering. Two women in their 30s were taken to a hospital with cardiac arrest, but died, and two men were seriously injured and are being treated. Kim, a criminal with eight previous convictions, was arrested after being reported to the police while fleeing after the crime. Experts claimed that the perpetrator targeted the victims' neck, heart, and sides in the process of wielding a weapon, and that the depth of the wound suggests that it was a planned murder, not an accident. There was also testimony that the perpetra