Jenong Ye-U

Jenong Ye-U was a South Korean who caused the shooting deaths of three people and the wounding of nine others in a market in Seoul, South Korea on September 7, 1982 before being arrested.

Around noon Jenong entered a market where he finded three police officers. Without weapons in his hands he began threatening them, provoking, and ordered them to shoot him, but they did not. After assaulting one of the officers his colleague pulled a weapon and shot into the air, which caused Jenong to panic. While fleeing he hit several passerbys, which caused the others to utter to catch the suicidal man. When the police began opening fire Jenong barricaded himself in one of the stores located in the market. The police bullets hit a pedestrian fatally in the head, while the two others were fatally hit in the abdomen. Nine others were injured by police bullets.

After being caught Jenong was arrested. After he was asked for why he caused the shooting, he said that he wanted to commit suicide by cop after he experienced a event in which he described to have disturbed his mind.