Jeong Yoo-jeong, Who Doubted "Does the Judge Even Read This?", Submits Six Apology Letters

Canceling Appointment of Public Defender and Hiring Private Attorney

Jeong Yoo-jeong (23), who murdered a peer woman she first met through a tutoring brokerage app and mutilated the corpse, has been confirmed to have submitted a letter of remorse six times.

According to the legal community on the 27th, Jeong Yoo-jeong submitted her first letter of remorse on July 7, one week before the first trial date, and has submitted an additional five letters over the past month.

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At the first trial on July 14, the court said, “The defendant submitted a letter of remorse, but I wrote it doubting whether the judge would actually read each page of the letter,” and added, “The court reads the defendant’s letters of remorse thoroughly, so if there is anything you want to say in any form, write it and submit it.”

It also said, “The defense may have different opinions on how Jeong Yoo-jeong grew up, what kind of school days she had, what her state of mind was before the incident, and what led to the murder,” and “We hope these parts will be well organized and submitted by the next pretrial preparation date.”

Jeong also put great effort into preparing for the first pretrial preparation date. She canceled the appointment of a public defender and hired a private attorney, and even though she was not obligated to appear in person, she showed up.

Jeong is accused of killing the victim (26), who lived in Geumjeong-gu, Busan, with a weapon at 5:50 p.m. on May 26, and then abandoning the corpse. After mutilating the victim’s body, Jeong put some parts of the corpse into a travel bag and abandoned it near the Nakdong River in Yangsan, Gyeongnam.

[Photo by Busan Police Agency] [Image source=Yonhap News]

On the day of the crime, Jeong told the victim her age and talked about her unfortunate circumstances, then said, “I want to commit suicide, but it’s too unfair to die alone, so I came to find someone to die with me.” When the shocked victim tried to run away, Jeong said, “It’s a joke,” making the victim let her guard down, then wildly swung the weapon.

Just before the crime, Jeong talked on the phone with her father for about two hours, making remarks that hinted at the murder. Since 2022, Jeong searched for terms such as “how to take revenge on family,” “how to ruin a person,” “parricide,” and “methods of murder.”

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