Jul 5, 2026 · 41 min · 12 segments
Early 2026, Ga-in survived being held captive for 12 hours. The police took her report and sent a text to the perpetrator telling him to "cease all contact with the victim". For the next 30 hours…
The man who stood in the shadows on the Nambu University path was 23-year-old Jang Yoongi, and the story of how he ended up attacking a teenage girl on that path would be consistently revised by the lies he was feeding detectives.
He wanted the prosecution to believe that he was an impulsive, broken young man who had a mental breakdown.
But the forensics of this case and his background revealed that instead he was a cold, calculated predator who had been escalating over the past year.
Jang Yoon-ki was born in November of 2002. and raised his entire life within the city limits of Gwangju.
He didn't hold down employment for very long, but he occasionally picked up temporary shifts as a restaurant worker.
If you're unaware, in South Korea, every able-bodied, non-exempt man must complete a term of military service, typically 18 months for the Army, 20 months for the Navy, and 21 months for the Air Force.
Prior to a man's mandatory service, they have to be given a physical, which is looking for any medical exemptions that might place them in that non-active duty role, sometimes even exempting them altogether from service.
If placed in a non-active duty role, also known as a social service agent, They're assigned to labor deficits of the state, like administrative slots in municipal offices, public transit locations, or even welfare facilities.
His personal medical records are not a part of his criminal trial, so we don't know why he was given this alternative route.
This was a facility designed fundamentally as an institutional sanctuary, a highly protected environment meant to help and support disadvantaged youth.
But the state's placement had inadvertently handed a calculating predator a permanent legitimate badge of access to a pool of highly vulnerable kids.
During the peak summer months of June and July 2025, while on official clock hours inside the youth sanctuary, Jang Yoon-ki began exhibiting the first signs of deviance, I think is the best way to put it.
Using his personal phone, he consistently, systematically, intentionally began photographing the kids.
Over the course of eight weeks, he would take hundreds of photographs of the children, ranging in age from very young to middle school age.
Most of these photos were in compromising positions, often angling his phone secretly to take pictures under their clothes or their skirts or shorts.
The man who stood in the shadows on the Nambu University path was 23-year-old Jang Yoongi, and the story of how he ended up attacking a teenage girl on that path would be consistently revised by the lies he was feeding detectives.
He wanted the prosecution to believe that he was an impulsive, broken young man who had a mental breakdown.
But the forensics of this case and his background revealed that instead he was a cold, calculated predator who had been escalating over the past year.
Jang Yoon-ki was born in November of 2002. and raised his entire life within the city limits of Gwangju.
He didn't hold down employment for very long, but he occasionally picked up temporary shifts as a restaurant worker.
If you're unaware, in South Korea, every able-bodied, non-exempt man must complete a term of military service, typically 18 months for the Army, 20 months for the Navy, and 21 months for the Air Force.
Prior to a man's mandatory service, they have to be given a physical, which is looking for any medical exemptions that might place them in that non-active duty role, sometimes even exempting them altogether from service.
If placed in a non-active duty role, also known as a social service agent, They're assigned to labor deficits of the state, like administrative slots in municipal offices, public transit locations, or even welfare facilities.
His personal medical records are not a part of his criminal trial, so we don't know why he was given this alternative route.
This was a facility designed fundamentally as an institutional sanctuary, a highly protected environment meant to help and support disadvantaged youth.
But the state's placement had inadvertently handed a calculating predator a permanent legitimate badge of access to a pool of highly vulnerable kids.
During the peak summer months of June and July 2025, while on official clock hours inside the youth sanctuary, Jang Yoon-ki began exhibiting the first signs of deviance, I think is the best way to put it.
Using his personal phone, he consistently, systematically, intentionally began photographing the kids.
Over the course of eight weeks, he would take hundreds of photographs of the children, ranging in age from very young to middle school age.
Most of these photos were in compromising positions, often angling his phone secretly to take pictures under their clothes or their skirts or shorts.
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