# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/woo-bum-kon
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:43:18.323Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/woo-bum-kon"
name: "Woo Bum-kon"
slug: "woo-bum-kon"
description: "The Woo Bum-kon incident also known as the Uiryeong shooting incident or Officer Woo incident, was a spree killing that occurred during the night from April 26 to April 27, 1982, in Uiryeong County, South Gyeongsang Province, South Korea. Policeman Woo Bum-kon murdered 56 people and wounded around 35 others in four villages using two stolen rifles and explosives. Woo killed himself in a suicide bombing with three hostages before a police response."
tagline: "South Korean spree killer (1955–1982)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/Lost_families_1982-06-14.png/330px-Lost_families_1982-06-14.png"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "South Korea"
  isoCode: "KR"
birthDate: "1955-11-05"
deathDate: "1982-04-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           53.95
  momentum:             3.17773298852193
  historical:           11.33781466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  247
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%A6%B9%E7%AF%84%E5%9D%A4"
    title: "禹範坤"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%88_%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%85_%D9%83%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "وو بوم كون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woo_Bum-kon"
    title: "Woo Bum-kon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woo_Bum-kon"
    title: "Woo Bum-kon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woo_Bum-kon"
    title: "Woo Bum-kon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woo_Bum-Kon"
    title: "Woo Bum-Kon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woo_Bum-Kon"
    title: "Woo Bum-Kon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%A6%B9%E7%AF%84%E5%9D%A4"
    title: "禹範坤"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%9A%B0%EB%B2%94%EA%B3%A4"
    title: "우범곤"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woo_Bum-kon"
    title: "Woo Bum-kon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3_%D0%91%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%BD"
    title: "У Бомгон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3_%D0%91%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%BD"
    title: "У Бомгон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q484134"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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