KARA’s Heo Young Ji endured 7 years of stalking, stalker obtained family contacts
KARA’s Heo Young Ji said she and her family endured harassment from a stalker for seven years who repeatedly visited her family’s café, obtained her vehicle’s license plate number and her family’s contact information, and even sent a letter saying, “I want to kill everyone jealous.”
“Heo Young Ji said: “I want to kill everyone jealous”
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Super Junior’s Kyuhyun also opened up about being stalked. Kyuhyun recalled an incident from his days living in Super Junior’s dormitory, revealing that a fan once hid inside a fire hose cabinet in the apartment hallway in an attempt to gain access to the members’ residence.
The revelations came on the July 19 episode of MBN and SBS Plus‘s ‘I Met a Psychopath.’ The panel explored real-life crimes that took place in people’s homes under the theme, “Why Did You Come to My House?” The episode highlighted disturbing cases involving stalking, home invasions, voyeurism, and scams targeting elderly people living alone, leaving the cast visibly shaken.
The first case featured a home invasion scheme carried out through a random chat application. The perpetrator impersonated the victim, sending her home address and door lock passcode to strangers and tricking them into visiting her residence. The cast was especially shocked after learning that the culprit was the victim’s seemingly friendly next-door neighbor, reacting with comments such as:
“That’s a real psychopath,”
– the cast
“Is this really a true story?”
– the cast
Following that segment, Kyuhyun and Jun Hyun Moo shared tips on preventing similar crimes, including security features available on digital door locks and smart lock systems.
The show’s “Psychocast,” hosted by Nucksal, covered a case in which an electrician secretly installed a miniature camera inside a smoke detector and illegally recorded a married couple’s private life for five years. The perpetrator turned out to be a fellow resident in the same apartment complex and the father of the couple’s child’s friend. The revelation that there were multiple victims horrified the cast. The show also discussed the large-scale hacking of apartment wall-pad systems across South Korea, raising further concerns about residential privacy.
The program revisited the real-life case known as “The Leech,” involving a man who abused an elderly person living alone for 10 years while stealing the victim’s pension. Posing as the victim’s grandson, the suspect even transferred his official residence registration to the elderly person’s home and subjected the victim to years of physical abuse and confinement. The truth finally came to light after a newly moved-in neighbor alerted police. When officers arrived, the victim quietly handed them a note reading,
“He’s not my grandson. I don’t know him.”
– the victim
The cast condemned the case, calling the perpetrator “the most vicious psychopath we’ve seen so far.”
Kyuhyun also introduced the case of a so-called “silver hunter,” a woman who targeted a wealthy senior with dementia and fraudulently obtained a massive fortune. Claiming to be a friend of the South Korean president, she allegedly registered a legal marriage and forged a will to inherit the victim’s assets before abandoning the elderly individual, leaving the panel in disbelief.
After the broadcast, the cast reflected on the disturbing stories, saying:
“We always think our homes are the safest places, but realizing they can become the most terrifying places was frightening.”
– the cast
“The crimes targeting society’s most vulnerable people were especially heartbreaking.”
– the cast