A photographer's desire to capture the "dying figure" led him to poison a young woman to capture the moment of her death. The animalistic desire of humans to photograph the dying won out over death. The dying figure is intensely stimulating, most dramatic, and immersive in a religious and mystical world. The sight of many victims dying in war, on the contrary, makes war intensely stimulating, most dramatic, and brings in the light and shade of the religious and mystical. The sight of so many dying, on the contrary, makes war drive the human animal nature into intense stimulation, most exciting, religious and mystical. However, the more powerful people who do not know, do not experience, and do not sacrifice, the more distant they become from death and the more they involve peaceful citizens in war.
On December 14, 1982, the body of a 24-year-old woman was found in Hoamsan, Guro-gu, Seoul. The deceased was identified as Kim Kyung-gyo, a female employee of a barbershop. The circumstances at the time of discovery led to a presumption of death by poisoning. However, there were no signs of any resistance, and the body had undressed and slumped to the floor and died. The results were extremely contradictory, saying that Kim died after climbing a mountain, daring to take off his clothes, and then he ate the poison and cowered from the floor.
For the first time in history, the Korean police mobilized profiling methods and the culprit was immediately arrested. The culprit was 42-year-old Lee Dong-hye, a convicted felon who had spent time in prison several times for special theft and was a photographer and boiler plumber after serving his sentence. He was born in Daegu, Gyeongsangbuk-do in 1940, and was orphaned at the age of six when his parents died. He was sent to his uncle's house to finish elementary school and moved to Seoul when he was 14. For about 15 years, he collected discarded scrap iron and other materials, but made a living by cleaning animals. He served time in prison for several special theft charges. After his release from prison, he took up photography as a hobby and spent his time taking pictures of this and that. He was a member of the Korean Photographers' Society and won ten awards in photography contests. He even had his own private exhibition. At a time when his plumbing salary was a few hundred thousand won, he bought an expensive Japanese camera worth about 1.5 million won.
However, despite the joy of the purchase, he failed to come up with any special ideas for a long time and was not selected in a photography contest. He painstakingly added more exciting ideas to his photos, including life and death, with the intention of making them more exciting. He considered life to death to be the most dramatic and beautiful moment, and took a number of necrophilic photographs of his future wife as a model. He was not satisfied with the staged deaths.
One day, he climbed a mountain with Kim Kyung-gil, then 24, an employee of his barbershop, saying that he would give her a promotion by taking naked photos of her. Before Kim took off her clothes, he gave her a cold medicine, potassium cyanide medicine, because she was cold. Lee took 21 photos of the moment when Kim took the cyanide poison and died, struggling as he fell to the ground. He continued to take photos even after she died and stopped breathing. While denying his suspicions during the trial after his arrest, he confessed to all the crimes in a fit of rage when the professor of photography who was in charge of analyzing the images testified. On May 27, 1986, Lee was executed at the Seoul Detention Center.
