Nearly Half of Murders in South Korea Committed by Family Members Statistics Show
There is a reason the police generally look at relatives first during a murder investigation because the statistics show a reletative is the likely culprit:
Nearly half of murders committed in Korea last year targeted family members such as parents, spouses and children, data showed Sunday.
According to the National Police Agency’s 2024 crime statistics, 131 of the 276 people apprehended for murder last year, or 47.5 percent, had killed a spouse, parent, child or other relative.
The share hovered around 30 percent between 2020 and 2022, but in 2023, it surged to 55.1 percent, or 160 out of 290 murder suspects. The apparent sharp rise was partly due to a change in methodology that year, when cases involving former spouses or common-law partners began to be counted. The proportion has since remained close to half.
You can read more at the link. What I find interesting about this stat is that in all of Korea last year there was 276 murders. For comparison in 2023 in Washington, DC there was 273 murders. Yet the Democrats and the media want people believe there is not a crime problem in Washington DC when that one city has nearly the same total number of murders as an entire major country.
