# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lee-choon-jae
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:48:44.829Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lee-choon-jae"
name: "Lee Choon-jae"
slug: "lee-choon-jae"
description: "Lee Choon-jae, also known as the Hwaseong Serial Killer, is a South Korean serial killer known for committing the Hwaseong serial murders. Between 1986 and 1994, Lee murdered fifteen women and girls in addition to committing numerous sexual assaults, predominantly in Hwaseong, Gyeonggi Province, and the surrounding areas. The murders, which remained unsolved for thirty years, are considered to be the most infamous in modern South Korean history and were the inspiration for the film Memories of Murder (2003)."
tagline: "South Korean serial killer (born 1963)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Leechoonjae.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "South Korea"
  isoCode: "KR"
birthDate: "1963"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           55.2
  momentum:             0
  historical:           13.35766666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Choon-jae"
    title: "Lee Choon-jae"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9B%CE%B9_%CE%A4%CF%83%CE%BF%CF%85%CE%BD-%CF%84%CE%B6%CE%B5"
    title: "Λι Τσουν-τζε"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Choon-jae"
    title: "Lee Choon-jae"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Chun-jae"
    title: "Lee Chun-jae"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%DB%8C_%DA%86%D9%88%D9%86%E2%80%8C%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%87"
    title: "لی چون‌جائه"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Choon-jae"
    title: "Lee Choon-jae"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Choon-jae"
    title: "Lee Choon-jae"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A4%E3%83%BB%E3%83%81%E3%83%A5%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B8%E3%82%A7"
    title: "イ・チュンジェ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%9D%B4%EC%B6%98%EC%9E%AC"
    title: "이춘재"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Choon-jae"
    title: "Lee Choon-jae"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B8_%D0%A7%D1%83%D0%BD_%D0%A7%D0%B6%D1%8D"
    title: "Ли Чун Чжэ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B8%AD%E0%B8%B5_%E0%B8%8A%E0%B8%B8%E0%B8%99-%E0%B9%81%E0%B8%88"
    title: "อี ชุน-แจ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q67987668"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump