On 18 September 2019, the Gyeonggi Nambu Provincial Police Agency in South Korea announced that it had arrested a suspect in the so-called Hwaseong serial murders, identifying 56-year-old Lee Chun-jae as the perpetrator of the brutal rape and murder of 10 women between 1986 and 1991.1¹ The nation’s shock at this statement was compounded by the fact that the killer had eluded law enforcement for so long that the statute of limitations for the case had expired way back in 2006. Closure, as a result, seemed unlikely if not outright impossible. Reflecting the country’s complicated response to the news, the filmmaker Bong Joon-ho noted in October 2019 at the Beyond Film Festival ‘that it would take him a while to explain his feelings’.2² Bong’s thoughts about this development in the case were of particular interest to the press because his film, Sarinui chueok/Memories of Murder, a thriller loosely based on the Hwaseong murders, had revived interest in the crime when it was released in 2003. In addition to advancing Bong’s career, Memories of Murder had initiated a veritable craze among filmmakers as they all scrambled to make their own serial killer films. But just as the film was related to true events, the reach of Memories of Murder appeared to go beyond cinema and back into real life: four months after the film’s release on 24 September 2003, 37-year-old Yoo Young-chul began a killing spree that claimed 21 lives before he was captured in July 2004.3³ Placed in relation to one another, Memories of Murder and the Yoo case mark the moment in recent Korean history when cinema became enamoured with serial murder.4⁴ Korean news media made this connection, remarking that with the Yoo case the nation was seeing ‘Seoul’s version of Memories of Murder’, a suggestion that the rural horror of the Hwaseong killings had migrated to the capital.5⁵

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“如果我抓住你，我会杀了你”：追逐者，韩国连环杀手电影院和主权危机

2019年9月18日，韩国京畿道南部警察厅宣布，它在所谓的华城系列谋杀案中逮捕了一名犯罪嫌疑人，认定56岁的李俊载为该国残酷强奸和谋杀案的肇事者。 1986年至1991. ¹年间，有10名妇女。1令该国震惊的是，凶手长期躲避执法，以至于该案件的时效规约早在2006年就到期了。结果，结案似乎不可能，即使不是完全不可能。电影制片人奉俊镐在2019年10月的``超越电影节''上反映了该国对这一消息的复杂回应，``他将需要一段时间来解释自己的感受'' ^{.2 2}Bong关于此案发展的想法引起了媒体的特别关注，因为他的电影Sarinui chueok /《Memories of Murder》（根据华城谋杀案大肆宣传的惊悚片）在2003年上映之时就引起了人们对这一罪行的兴趣。为了促进奉的事业，谋杀回忆（Memories of Murder）在电影制片人中掀起了一场真正的热潮，因为他们都争先恐后地制作自己的连环杀手电影。但是，正如这部电影与真实的事件有关一样，《谋杀记忆》的触及范围似乎超越了电影，并回到了现实生活中：2003年9月24日电影上映四个月后，现年37岁的Yoo Young-chul开始在2004年7月被捕之前杀害了21条生命的大礼包。3³摆在关系到彼此，杀人回忆和柳情况下标记在最近韩国历史的时刻，当电影开始痴迷于与串行murder.4 ^4对韩国新闻媒体提出这方面，陈述，与柳情况下，国家是看到'首尔版的《谋杀回忆》，暗示华城屠杀的乡村恐怖已经迁移到了首都^{。5 5}