Kang Ho-sun (Korean: 강호순; Hanja: 姜浩順; born October 10, 1969) is a South Korean serial killer who was sentenced to death in 2010 for killing 10 women between October 2005 and December 2008, including his wife and her mother.
[1] The murders took place in Ansan, Gyeonggi Province, a suburb of Seoul.
His first victim was a karaoke bar employee surnamed Bae, 45, followed by three others in 2007 including a 48-year-old housewife and a 21-year-old student from Suwon.
[4] His crimes were depicted in the 2022 South Korean TV series, Through the Darkness.
Kang is said to have realized his status in prison only after Jeong Nam-gyu, a serial killer also on death row, died by suicide because of the shadow of the looming death penalty.