Two men are dead. Four others were drugged and survived.
And what is everyone talking about? Her face.
A case in South Korea has been getting a lot of attention.
Kim So-young, 20, is accused of spiking men's drinks with benzodiazepines, drugs she had been prescribed for herself.
Two men died in Seoul motels. Four others survived.
On August 18, prosecutors asked for the death penalty.
But online, people keep saying she is pretty. That they would have accepted a drink from her too.
That is the least important part of this case.
The timeline is what bothers me.
December 14. Her own boyfriend drinks something she hands him in a parking lot, collapses twenty minutes later, and spends two days unconscious. He reports her to police.
January 29. A man is found dead in a motel in northern Seoul. Security cameras catch a woman leaving.
February 6. Police identify her, run her name through the system, and find the December complaint. Same woman.
February 9. The forensic lab confirms the dead man had the same family of drugs in his body.
That same night, another man walks into a motel with her.
He is found dead the next day. She is arrested that evening.
Police say they did not have enough evidence to arrest her sooner, and legally that may be true. You cannot arrest someone for looking suspicious.
But the family of that last victim keeps asking the obvious question. He died three days after police already knew her name.
Prosecutors also say she had asked ChatGPT about overdosing on sleeping pills, and that after the first man survived, the doses got bigger.
She says she only wanted to make the men sleep. That she never meant to kill anyone.
This whole thing gave me a strange sense of deja vu.
When I was younger, the Kijima Kanae case was on Japanese TV constantly. She met men on marriage sites, sedated them with sleeping pills, and staged their deaths to look like suicide. Three died. She is on death row now.
And I remember the talk shows barely discussed the victims. It was all about her looks. In her case the question was the opposite, "she is not even pretty, so why did men trust her," but the camera was pointed at the same wrong place.
Korea is doing the same thing right now, just in reverse.
Here is why the timing matters: the verdict comes down this afternoon.
Whatever it is, I keep thinking about one question. When police have a survivor, a complaint, a body and one name connecting them all, what is supposed to happen in those three days?
I honestly do not have a good answer. If you do, tell me.
Two men are dead. They are the ones this story should be about.
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