Hyojin and her friend were kidnapped by a cult. Then she was forced to kill him.
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In September 1994, Hyojin and a colleague were driving to meet friends at Yangsu-ri river when their car was abruptly stopped by another vehicle ahead.
Confused, Hyojin looked ahead, only to see a group of men emerge from the car ahead and approach their vehicle.
Before she knew what was really happening, the attackers fired gas guns through a crack in the window and assaulted them both — Hyojin was punched in the face whilst her friend was stabbed in the thigh. The men then bound them and placed them in the boot of their car.
What had begun as a routine evening out quickly became a seven-day long nightmare for Hyojin. One that would have lasting consequences for the sole survivor of the Chijon family gang.
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During the seven days Hyojin was held captive by the group, she was not only forced to witness the atrocities committed by her captors and raped multiple times, but was also forced to kill several people herself.
Netflix’s The Echoes of Survivors: Inside Korea’s Tragedies is an eight-episode documentary series that confronts some of South Korea’s darkest chapters, following up on the acclaimed 2023 series In the Name of God: A Holy Betrayal.
The series examines four devastating events that shook Korean society: the Brothers’ Home internment camp, the JMS cult’s continued legal battles, the Chijon family murders, and the Sampoong Department Store collapse.
Perhaps no story cuts as deeply as that of the Chijon family murders — a series of murders carried out by the Chijon family — a murderous gang formed by convicted rapist Kim Gi-hwan consisting of a group of six other men, all of whom were driven to murder and extort those they classified as rich.
But what makes this particular chapter so profoundly moving is the extraordinary courage of Hyojin — the sole survivor of the Chijon family cult and the woman at the centre of this story.
Perhaps the most psychologically devastating aspect of Hyojin’s captivity was when she was forced to participate directly in their violence.
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