{"id":15930,"date":"2026-05-14T00:25:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T00:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/15930\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T00:25:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T00:25:14","slug":"gwangju-stabbing-suspect-identified-as-jang-yoon-gi-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/15930\/","title":{"rendered":"Gwangju stabbing suspect identified as Jang Yoon-gi, 23"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>       <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/rcv.YNA.20260514.PYH2026051401160005402_P1.jpg\" alt=\"Jang Yoon-gi, 23, who is accused of fatally stabbing a teen girl on a street in Gwangju and injuring another, is transferred to prosecutors from the Gwangju Seobu Police Station on May 14. (Yonhap)\"\/>     Jang Yoon-gi, 23, who is accused of fatally stabbing a teen girl on a street in Gwangju and injuring another, is transferred to prosecutors from the Gwangju Seobu Police Station on May 14. (Yonhap)  <\/p>\n<p>Police on Thursday released the identity of 23-year-old Jang Yoon-gi, who was arrested on charges of fatally stabbing a high school girl and injuring a male student in an apparently random attack in Gwangju on May 5.<\/p>\n<p>The Gwangju Metropolitan Police Agency said Jang\u2019s personal information \u2014 including his name, age and mugshot \u2014 will remain posted on its website for 30 days through June 12.<\/p>\n<p>South Korea discloses a suspect\u2019s identity under strict guidelines and only when an ad-hoc review committee determines that the case meets certain legal criteria. The decision to reveal Jang\u2019s identity was made during a May 8 review meeting, but the release was delayed after Jang refused to consent to the disclosure.<\/p>\n<p>Jang is accused of stabbing a 17-year-old second-year high school girl to death and injuring a 17-year-old male student who came to help after hearing her screams. The attack occurred at around 12:11 a.m. on May 5 on a walkway near a university in Wolgye-dong, Gwangju.<\/p>\n<p>       <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/rcv.YNA.20260506.PYH2026050611640005400_P1.jpg\" alt=\"White chrysanthemums are placed on a pedestrian walkway in Wolgye-dong, Gwangju, on May 6, where a high school girl was killed and a male high school student was injured in an apparently random knife attack. (Yonhap)\"\/>     White chrysanthemums are placed on a pedestrian walkway in Wolgye-dong, Gwangju, on May 6, where a high school girl was killed and a male high school student was injured in an apparently random knife attack. (Yonhap)  <\/p>\n<p>During police questioning, he reportedly said, \u201cI was going to die anyway, so I wanted to take someone with me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Police plan to hand him over to prosecutors later Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>       <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/rcv.YNA.20260514.PYH2026051401140005400_P1.jpg\" alt=\"Jang Yoon-gi, 23, who is accused of fatally stabbing a teen girl on a street in Gwangju and injuring another, is transferred to prosecutors from the Gwangju Seobu Police Station on May 14. (Yonhap)\"\/>     Jang Yoon-gi, 23, who is accused of fatally stabbing a teen girl on a street in Gwangju and injuring another, is transferred to prosecutors from the Gwangju Seobu Police Station on May 14. (Yonhap)<br \/>\n<br \/>milaya@heraldcorp.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jang Yoon-gi, 23, who is accused of fatally stabbing a teen girl on a street in Gwangju and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15931,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[31,33],"class_list":{"0":"post-15930","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-south-korea","8":"tag-korea","9":"tag-south-korea"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}