Killing people pays for their lives, this is the principle since ancient times, but after the South Korean man Yoon Tae-sik killed his wife, he not only received the protection of the South Korean government, but also became a famous national hero. What's going on, and what's going on with him?
On January 5, 1987, Yoon Tae-sik stumbled into the U.S. Embassy in Singapore, claiming that he had been kidnapped by North Korean spies and wanted to seek asylum.
Seeing that Yoon Tae-sik looked panicked and didn't look like he was lying, the staff of the U.S. Embassy called the South Korean Embassy in Singapore and informed him of the situation.
At that time, inter-Korean relations were at a time of tension, so the staff of the South Korean Embassy in Singapore immediately reported the matter to the South Korean government and took Yoon Tae-sik back from the U.S. Embassy after receiving the call.
Yoon Tae-sik told staff that the North Korean spy who kidnapped him was his wife, Kim Ok-fen, who was codenamed "Susie Kim."
Yoon Tae-sik described the ins and outs of the matter to the staff:
A few months ago, Mr. Yoon came to Hong Kong to develop his optical disc business.
In October 1986, Yoon Tae-sik met 34-year-old Kim Ok-fen through his landlord.
At that time, Kim Yufen was going to Japan for a while, so she rented the house to Yoon Tae-sik for a short time, but due to the sudden postponement of her trip abroad, the two became roommates.
Living under one roof, and being a lonely man and widow, the two soon developed a relationship, and they got married in less than 1 month.
Yoon Tae-sik said that things were not normal on the night of January 2.
When he returned home that night, he saw two Japanese-speaking men whispering something to his wife. When his wife saw him returning, she told him to go out and buy some tobacco and alcohol, saying that she would entertain the two relatives in the evening.
Despite some doubts, Yoon Tae-sik obediently went to buy cigarettes and alcohol, but when he returned, he found that his wife and the two men were nowhere to be found.
Yoon Tae-sik had no choice but to return home after searching for no results, but after waiting all night, his wife still had no news.
Just when Yoon Tae-sik was hesitating to call the police, one of the men who had appeared the night before knocked on the door of his house and told him that Kim Yufen owed a lot of money, and since she couldn't pay off the debt, she had already paid it off, and if she wanted to save the woman, then go to Singapore quickly.
Yoon Tae-sik was so anxious that he boarded a plane to Singapore the next day, and after getting off the plane, he was taken to the hotel by a woman, and later he found the North Korean embassy in Singapore according to the address the woman wrote to him, and then he learned his wife's true identity.
Mr. Yoon said the staff who hosted him told him that Mr. Kim had returned to Pyongyang and that they could help him if he wanted to find his wife, but that on the way back, he had to say at a news conference that he had fled to North Korea because of repression by the South Korean government.
Yoon Tae-sik was a little hesitant about such an arrangement.
When the staff saw that Yoon Tae-sik refused to cooperate, they threatened him and said, "The money you took from your wife before was all business funds from the North Korean intelligence department, and now do you think you can still live when you return to South Korea?"
It was only at this time that Yoon Tae-sik suddenly realized that his wife had probably set a trap for him from the beginning, and then tricked him into coming to the North Korean embassy in Singapore to coerce him into being a North Korean spy.
So, Yoon Tae-sik took advantage of the negligence of the staff who monitored him and escaped from the North Korean embassy in Singapore and fled to the U.S. embassy by car.
It was too arrogant for North Korean spies to dare to kidnap South Koreans in broad daylight! So the staff immediately reported what had happened to the South Korean government, and the South Korean government soon issued instructions asking the South Korean embassy in Singapore to arrange a press conference for Yoon Tae-sik to reveal the fact that he was coerced by North Korean spies.
Out of a cautious style, the staff of the South Korean Embassy in Singapore asked some questions in detail after listening to Yoon Tae-sik's statement, and soon he found that Yoon Tae-sik did not match his words beforehand, and the whole story was full of loopholes, obviously suspected of lying.
In a rigorous manner, the staff reported his findings to the South Korean government again, hoping to cancel the press conference, but the South Korean government strongly stated that it would not do any political harm to South Korea by publicizing North Korea's evil deeds, and besides, the incident had already been reported by the media, so it was necessary to believe what Yoon Tae-sik said.
Sure enough, Yoon Tae-sik's testimony sparked a tsunami-like effect in South Korea, with the public condemning North Korea's despicable actions.
When Yoon Tae-sik returned to South Korea, he was warmly welcomed by the people, and he became a national hero.
After that, Yoon Tae-sik repeatedly testified at press conferences arranged by the South Korean government that North Korea used beauty tricks to coerce him to be a North Korean spy.
North Korea believes that Yoon Tae-sik made something out of nothing, and after some investigation, they publicly shouted that there is no such person as Kim Yufen among North Korean spies, and there is no military act to coerce him to be a spy.
But the North Korean shouting has no effect at all in South Korea, because in the eyes of South Koreans, North Korean spies living next to each other have always had a habit of tricking beauties.
At this time, the South Korean police received an extradition letter from the Hong Kong police, requesting the extradition of Yoon Tae-sik to Hong Kong because he was involved in a homicide case and the deceased was his wife, Kim Yufen.
It turned out that on January 26, 1987, Jin Yufen's neighbors called the police to report that there was a stench of decay in the corridor that had persisted for a long time, and they were worried that a large animal had died in a dead corner of the building, so they called the police.
When the Hong Kong police arrived at the scene, they found Jin Yuye's house in search of the smell, and soon they found Jin Yufen who had been rotting for many days under the mattress.
Considering that there were no traces of a fight at the scene, and the deceased's clothes were very neat, and based on the strangulation marks on the deceased's neck, it can be judged that this was an acquaintance who committed the crime.
Through the investigation of the visit, it was learned that Jin Yufen and her husband Yin Tyson did not have a good relationship, and the two quarreled from time to time, and once the neighbor saw that Jin Yufen had obvious external injuries on her face.
Ms. Kim's maid said Ms. Yoon fired her on Jan. 3 and took away the keys.
Immediately afterwards, the Hong Kong police found that Yoon Tae-sik had purchased a first-class ticket to Singapore on January 4, and it is very likely that this is a murder absconding.
But when the case is found here, it cannot continue unless Yoon Tae-sik is found, so the Hong Kong police contacted the South Korean police, hoping to extradite Yoon Tae-sik to Hong Kong for investigation.
After being rejected by the South Korean police, the Hong Kong police also felt helpless, after all, they could not exercise law enforcement power in South Korea, so they could only continue to do the work of the South Korean police.
It was at this time that they saw the news in the newspaper that Yoon Tae-sik identified Kim Ok-fen as a North Korean spy, and they felt that Yoon Tae-sik did nothing more than to cover up his murder by lying.
However, because the information was not well informed at the time, although the South Koreans learned that Kim Yufen was killed, they did not know the specific situation.
So, is Kim Yufen a North Korean spy?
In terms of things, Jin Yufen's life experience is quite tragic.
Born in the countryside of Jinju near Seoul, she is the third of seven siblings, and her family was so poor that she dropped out of school early to earn a living.
worked as a factory girl in a factory and also worked as a bar hostess, and later she got together with a wealthy Hong Kong businessman with her beautiful appearance and gave birth to a daughter.
A few years later, the Hong Kong businessman ended his business in South Korea and returned to Hong Kong with Jin Yufen and his daughter. At this time, Jin Yufen learned that the other party already had a family, and after being deceived, Jin Yufen took her daughter to live alone in a fit of anger, and cut off contact with the other party from then on.
But if she wanted to work, she couldn't take care of her daughter, so she fostered her daughter with her parents, while she stayed in Hong Kong to work as a barmaid.
By chance, Kim Yufen met Yoon Tae-sik, who came to Hong Kong to develop his optical disc business. Although Yoon Tae-sik is younger than her, she knows how to take care of people, so she soon fell into Yoon Tae-sik's arms, and even when Yoon Tae-sik lacked start-up funds, she also borrowed a sum of money from relatives and friends to Yoon Tae-sik.
However, Jin Yufen would never have thought that this man would brutally kill her shortly after getting married.
Kim Yufen is not a North Korean spy, can't the South Korean government really find out?
In fact, after the first press conference, the South Korean National Security Planning Department interrogated Yoon Tae-sik, and Yoon Tae-sik also explained how he killed his wife.
Mr. Yoon said he met Mr. Kim through his landlord shortly after he arrived in Hong Kong.
Originally, Yoon Tae-sik thought that Jin Yufen had lived in Hong Kong for several years and should have some savings that could help him in his career, but later he learned that Jin Yufen was just a bar waiter, plus he had to help his family, so he often had to send money home, so he didn't have any savings.
Although after getting married, Jin Yufen borrowed $4,000 from relatives and friends to support his career, but because things did not improve, the two had more and more conflicts, and even often fought each other for this.
On the night of January 2, Yoon Tae-sik and Kim Yufen quarreled again over money, and as the quarrel became more and more intense, Yoon Tae-sik, who was impulsive, covered his wife's mouth with a pillowcase, trying to shut her up, but the force was too strong, causing his wife to pass out, so Yoon Tae-sik simply found a travel belt, strangled Mingzi, and hid his wife under the mattress, while he fled to Singapore.
In order to evade legal responsibility, Yoon Tae-sik first went to the North Korean consulate in Singapore, hoping to get asylum from North Korea, but was rejected because he had no use value.
In desperation, Yoon Tae-sik concocted a lie that his wife was a spy, hoping to get away with it.
The matter is clear at a glance, but the South Korean government did not make the truth public, but said: since North Korea's evil deeds have been widely reported, there is no need to make the case public.
In fact, the South Korean government also has their political purpose in doing so.
It turned out that it was the time when Chun Doo-hwan was in power.
Chun Doo-hwan has been a dictatorship since he became president, so the contradictions among the people have become more and more acute, and shortly before the Yoon Tae-sik incident, wave after wave of anti-Chun Doo-hwan and anti-dictatorship student movements intensified, and they could not be quelled at all.
Seeing that the regime was about to get out of control, the South Korean government urgently needed a major event to divert the attention of the people, and at this time, Yoon Tae-sik said that he was coerced by North Korean spies, which was really going to be dozing and someone handed him a pillow, so Minister Jang Se-dong immediately created a momentum to incite the people's anger against North Korea, and at the same time relieve the pressure brought by the student movement to the South Korean government.
Although the North Korean government and the Hong Kong police have spoken out, the South Korean government has silenced their voices and made the South Korean people hate North Korea even more by brainwashing them, and as a result, Kim Yufen's family has become a direct victim.
It turned out that the South Korean people had always thought that Jin Yufen was a North Korean spy, so they hated her to the core, but she died after all, so the people vented their hatred on Jin Yufen's relatives.
First, the Ministry of National Security Planning took Jin Yufen's family away, tortured them, and demanded that they confess the espionage activities in which Jin Yufen participated.
Although Kim Yufen's family eventually regained their freedom after suffering a lot, they were also branded as North Korean spies, and their neighbors discriminated against them.
The strong golden mother couldn't bear the blow, couldn't afford to get sick, and was paralyzed in bed from then on, and died of depression a few years later.
Jin Yufen's brother originally had a pretty good job, but because he was implicated by Jin Yufen, he was fired by the company, which caused mental illness and died of a stroke in less than a year.
Jin Yufen's three sisters were also implicated and suffered a lot of white eyes in their in-laws' house, and were finally divorced by their husbands.
Even the children who are still in school have dropped out of school because they can't stand the ridicule of their classmates.
And Yoon Tae-sik, who brought disaster to the Kim family, is thriving in South Korea.
Because of his fame and admiration for his loyalty to his country, he founded a fingerprint recognition company in South Korea, which went very smoothly and he became an entrepreneur.
However, the truth will be revealed one day.
On November 13, 2001, just as the effective time for the murder of Kim Yufen was about to expire, South Korean prosecutors indicted Yoon Tae-sik on murder charges.
It turned out that Jin Yufen's younger brother never gave up on finding the truth, and after learning the truth, he appealed everywhere, and persevered for 14 years, and finally submitted the evidence of Jin Yufen's murder to the procuratorate with the help of a reporter.
Soon after, Yoon Tae-su was arrested, and he confessed to the crime.
In May 2003, a South Korean court convicted Yoon Tae-sik of "murder, bribery and fraud" and sentenced him to 15 years and six months in prison.
In August 2003, the Ministry of National Security and Planning publicly apologized to Kim Ok-fen and her family, and paid 4.57 billion won in compensation according to the relevant compensation conditions.
Some people say that justice will not be absent, it will only be late, but when a simple case is swayed by the regime, then judicial justice is particularly ridiculous, although in the end the Jin family received compensation, but the humiliation and pain they have experienced in the past 14 years, how can money solve it!