Rotten Mango
Korean Teacher Laughs After Stabbing 8 Yr-Old Student To Death Because “I Want To Die With Someone”
Sun, 30 Mar 2025
2 people are rushed into the emergency room. The doctors and nurses don’t ask questions - they have one objective in mind. Save these people. Both are suffering from stab wounds. Sadly, only 1 of them will make it. 8 year old, Haneul, is deceased from multiple stab wounds to her neck, back, and chest. The 48 year old woman however, is alive. The nurses try to piece together what might have happened with the little information they have. The older woman is a teacher. The 8 year old girl was attacked in her elementary school. Perhaps, a knife wielding madman snuck into the school and attacked the little girl. Perhaps, the teacher tried to protect her student but was stabbed in the process. It will be difficult to tell the teacher that her student that she presumably tried to protect - did not make it. But when the teacher wakes up - the nurses don’t know how to handle the situation anymore. Because… she is laughing. She is giggling. She killed 8 year old Haneul and she is seemingly happy. Content. Giddy with excitement. Full show notes at rottenmangopodcast.com
Chapter 1: What is the setting of a South Korean elementary school?
It's not the same as it is in America. I mean, for one, when you step into this building, it's four, sometimes six stories tall. And you turn to your right. The first thing that you see is a line of cubbies just spanning the entire wall. You have to pick an empty cubby. slip off your shoes, put them in the cubby, and then you have to switch to indoor shoes when you walk in.
You can't walk in with socks or barefoot. You need to slip on dedicated indoor shoes that you have to bring. Then it's time for the daily stair walk. You head to the staircase and then you walk all your way up to the designated room. Newer buildings have elevators for accessibility, but this one does not. So once you get to the designated floor, you just see one single hallway with rows.
On both sides of the hallway are these massive sliding doors that lead into these big rooms with rows and rows and rows and rows of desks lined up. Every single person that you pass is wearing a knee-length plaid skirt or trousers and a blazer. You find your designated spot. You start cleaning. There's no janitors. Everybody is responsible for your own designated area.
And once you're done, you look out the giant window and the building is almost in this U shape that's centered around this courtyard. It sounds like a large, sometimes terrifying building, but it's not. There's not that many entrances or exits. The halls are usually patrolled by the staff. Welcome to a South Korean elementary school where it is rather difficult to go missing.
February 10th of 2025, so not too long ago, eight-year-old Haner is one of the last kids to be picked up from the school. When the adult comes to sign her out of her aftercare class, Haneul is instructed to walk down a flight of stairs to the front entrance. She's done this Monday through Friday. This is not a new schedule for Haneul.
The front desk, the academy teacher who's picking her up, waits a minute, then waits two minutes, five minutes. Now it's getting weird, but maybe she stopped by the restrooms first before coming downstairs, or maybe she forgot her book in another classroom. The academy teacher waits a full 10 minutes before all hell breaks loose.
Because an eight-year-old cannot just go missing in the span of 10 minutes inside the school. How is that even possible? There's barely any entrances or exits that are not patrolled. Even if she had run out, she left her outdoor shoes. So what, she's just running away in her slippers?
Additionally, even if she was able to make it out of the school, someone's going to see her in the courtyard or the parking lot that she has to get through. But nobody's seen her. Teachers and faculty are all alerted that the eight-year-old Haneul is missing. They tracked down the teacher that Haneul was last with. She's so confused. What do you mean? I was just with her.
I mean, you guys called her out of the class after care. So I sent her downstairs. I mean, the stairs are just around the corner. She could have gone down the stairs and then she would have been practically face-to-face with the front desk. So what do you mean?
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Chapter 2: How did the disappearance of Haneul unfold?
This is after one and a half hours since she had gone missing. 8-year-old Haner was stabbed to death by a teacher from her school. Inside the ICU unit, the teacher is laying there on an oxygen respirator, not allowed to have anything oily, not even allowed to drink water. And the second that they take the tubes out of her when she's stable enough, the teacher starts laughing.
That's what the nurses and the doctors have reported. Every single doctor and nurse in that room go still because what the hell is she laughing about?
So they all knew what happened at this point.
Yeah. The police are guarding the hospital room, and when they hear her laughter, they rush in to question her. None of this makes sense. I mean, they clearly know what happened, but nothing else makes any sense whatsoever. The teacher is a second grade teacher at the elementary school. She's not even Haneul's teacher. She's not even the after school program teacher that Haneul was with.
It doesn't appear like this teacher even had any sort of interactions with Haneul of a deeper length. Why did she kill her?
No connection whatsoever.
No, it's not like Hannah was not that it would be called for or not saying it's an excuse of, oh, she was the troublemaker in the class. But no, like truly. And again, that's not an excuse. That's not a reason behind it. But it's even more bizarre considering the fact that there is truly no connection there. They don't even really interact with each other at all.
The teacher tells authorities when she's calmed down from her supposed laughing fit, it doesn't matter which child. It didn't matter to me. I just wanted to die with someone. So I told the child leaving the care classroom after school program classroom, I'll give you a book. You need to read this book. And then I got them in the audio video classroom.
That's why I strangled her and stabbed her with a knife. It didn't matter which kid I took with me. I just didn't want to die alone. Within hours, this case is everywhere. It is one of the biggest cases in the news cycle in South Korea, but also international headlines. News outlets like BBC, teacher fatally stabs eight-year-old in South Korea.
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