Lee (middle), who was arrested on charges of kidnapping and murdering a woman, being escorted by authorities as he is transferred to the prosecution from a police station in Seoul. It reads like a K-drama plot: an ex-spy kidnaps a woman from an upscale district of Seoul over a crypto dispute, then kills her with drugs from a plastic surgery clinic. The case of purported spy-turned-hitman Lee, who was sentenced to life in prison in October, has shocked South Korea, a notoriously safe and almost drug-free country, where violent killings are rare. — Yonhap/AFP
SEOUL: It reads like a K-drama plot: an ex-spy kidnaps a woman from an upscale district of Seoul over a crypto dispute, then kills her with drugs from a plastic surgery clinic.
The case of purported spy-turned-hitman Lee Kyung-woo, who was sentenced to life in prison in October, has shocked South Korea, a safe and almost drug-free country where violent killings are rare.
