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Capital punishment is a legal penalty in South Korea. As of August 2023, there were 59 people on death row in South Korea. [1] The method of execution is hanging. However, there has been an informal moratorium on executions since President Kim Dae-jung took office in 1998. There have been no executions in the country since December 1997.
The nine familial exterminations, nine kinship exterminations, or execution of nine relations, also known by the names zuzhu ("family execution") and miezu ("family extermination"), was the most severe punishment for a capital offense in premodern China, Korea, and Vietnam.
The South-Korean-based Database Center for North Korean Human Rights has collected unverified testimony on 1,193 historic executions in North Korea through 2009. [3] Amnesty International reported that there were 105 executions between 2007 and 2012. [4] The Foreign Policy periodical estimated there were 60 executions in 2010. [5]
North Korea publicly executed a 22-year-old citizen for listening to and sharing K-pop music and films, according to South Korea.. The man from the Hermit Kingdom's South Hwanghae province was ...
This punishment entailed the execution of all the close and extended kin of the individual, categorized into nine groups: four generations of the paternal line, three from the maternal line, and two from the wife's. In the case of Confucian scholar Fang Xiaoru, his students and peers were uniquely included as a tenth group. [citation needed]
By RYAN GORMAN North Korean strongman Kim Jong-Un reportedly had 10 senior government officials executed –- for watching South Korean soap operas. The dictator's return to the public eye was met ...
Kim Sun-ja (Korean: 김선자; Hanja: 金宣子; December 11, 1939 – December 30, 1997) was a South Korean serial killer. Between October 1986 and August 1988, she poisoned six people, five of them fatally, using beverages laced with potassium cyanide.
People executed by South Korea or South Korean authorities. For people of South Korean nationality who were executed, see Category:Executed South Korean people . Subcategories