The
Hwaseong serial murders are a series of unsolved serial murders that occurred in the
South Korean city of
Hwaseong between September 15, 1986 and April 3, 1991. Ten women were found bound, raped, and murdered. The murders are considered to be the most infamous in the modern history of South Korea and has been compared to the
Zodiac Killer. The Korean film
Memories of Murder (2003) and television series
Gap-dong (2014) and
Signal (2016) are based on these murders.