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In 2017, a 16-year-old Korean girl killed an elementary school student in Incheon

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On March 29, 2017, Kim abducted and murdered A Yang, a second grader at an elementary school in Dongchun-dong, Yeonsu-gu, Incheon. The case is also known as the "Remin Case" after Kim's Twitter handle. Kim and her accomplice, Park Mo, 20, met through a self-portrait community on Twitter two months before the incident. During the police investigation, Kim was found to have searched for the words "murder" and "crazy" on his computer before the crime.  "He was obsessed with murder and crazy things in the media, so it's likely that he committed the crime to fulfill those desires," said Kim Kyung-ho, head of the criminal investigation division at Yeonsu Police Station. "The dramas and novels he watched included scenes of desecrating corpses or cleaning up the scene." According to witnesses, Kim had been regularly watching children at a nearby park prior to the incident. On the afternoon of March 29, 2017, while at the playground, Kim