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"The victims could not defend themselves, both due to a ban on privately-owned guns..."
Slightly biased conclusion?
Agree... look like to much of an argument from a pro-gun website... --Konstantin 13:16, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
Right. No one hurts anyone else if you don't let commoners have weapons. Trust in your rulers and your fine upstanding policemen, like Woo Bum-kon. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.174.170.36 (talk) 03:13, 5 May 2011 (UTC)
>where I come from, a cop couldn't just walk into an armoury and collect guns, grenades etc
According to non-english sources, he somehow obtained the rifles by sneaking past the guards (not sure how he would've done that while drunk, but that's what the source says). When they realized what he was doing, he fired a couple of shots into the air and they backed off. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.13.241.187 (talk) 05:27, 13 August 2022 (UTC)
With regards to the copyright notice on this article. The site that is listed as the source for the material is actually my own site. Crimebase. The material was taken from this page with a text link at the end of the article explaining that this article is the original source.
Somebody has wrongly given me credit for being the original author of the article when the info was actually taken from this article in the first place. So you can revert this article back to normal. there has been no copyright infringement. Scienide87 07:26, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
According to Korean naming standards, shouldn't his name be spelled "Woo Bum-kon" (see for instance Ban Ki-moon and Cho Seung-hui)?
This guys nickname was "Power" it is cited in many places across the internet and it used to be inserted on this entry but has been removed. I know this because i found it humorous that he was called power bum!
Isn't it interesting that the shooter from the Virginia Tech massacre was Korean too? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 69.143.159.10 (talk) 09:12, 18 April 2007 (UTC).
I'd be curious to know if this has had much impact on the psychological evaluatin procedures used for police. Clearly the advancement of psychology plays a major role all by itself. But, for example, one could mention if people who design these tests have made interesting comments about Woo Bum-Kon or other "killer cops". JeffBurdges 16:24, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
Not really. Other than their ethnicity and nationality, there is no correlation between either shooter. (Although both shooters had an usually high kill to wound ratio in their respective massacres, which is slightly interesting). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.13.241.187 (talk) 05:33, 13 August 2022 (UTC)
Is there a common name for the massacre? And shouldn't there be a more detailed account of it, in an article of its own? 132.205.44.134 00:32, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
I created this article a under my previous incarnation, Marblefluss. I was drinking vodka at the time, and looking back about 25% of what I wrote is total bullshit. Someone fix this, Google is your friend.. I did not take Wikipedia seriously back then, and only due to recent events did I re-stumble upon this article. My sincere apologies go out to all I misinformed in my Smirnoff-induced haze. -- Floaterfluss (talk) (contribs) 03:28, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
This guy has the high score, right? Should that be mentioned in the article? Miserlou (talk) 06:42, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
His girlfriends name is spelled both "Chun Mal-soon" and "Chun Mai-sun" in this article. Which one is correct? GBizzle (talk) 23:32, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
Death toll is stated as both 57 and 58 in different parts of the article. Which one is correct? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.69.210.124 (talk) 03:47, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
Several of the articles I've read so far seem to suggest the final death toll was 63. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.13.241.187 (talk) 10:55, 13 August 2022 (UTC)
Is there any evidence that any media or government officials theorized there could be a connection to North Korea, since there is a history of terrorist operations in South Korea? Bachcell (talk) 16:43, 4 February 2014 (UTC)
the article doesn't really discuss his motive? Did he just snap? --173.74.88.168 (talk) 17:58, 12 June 2016 (UTC)
According to the non-english sources I've read so far, he was a college student for a couple of years until he was drafted into the SK military. Eventually he left the military and joined the police force where he temporarily held a high rank, however he was demoted and was instead forced to be a police officer at the village where the rampage began. Due to this, he was unable to attain a higher rank and he felt he wasn't being paid enough. Apparently this caused him great anger and he began drinking alchohol again (he temporarily quit alcohol so he could maintain his high rank). In the weeks before the shooting, he was given a lot of crap from his superiors, which probably added to his inferiority complex. Eventually his girlfriend woke him up by swatting the fly (one source says she slapped him on the face while swatting the fly) which enraged him and the rest is history. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.13.241.187 (talk) 05:04, 13 August 2022 (UTC)
All of the non-english sources I've read so far say that 63 died (57 died instantly, 6 others were mortally wounded, including his girlfriend). It seems disrespectful to the 6 who were mortally wounded and their families to suggest their deaths aren't valid by not including them in the death toll. 92.13.241.187 (talk) 05:42, 13 August 2022 (UTC)
The list of victims is cut off (outside the screen) and thus partially not viewable when reading the article in mobile browser. I think, working with particular <div>
styles is probably too restricting. A style and position that may look good on one screen, might not work on a screen of a different size. I'd recommend to just write the list as a bullet point list without any <div>
formatting. It's how it is done in other similar articles, and it is also correctly displayed on various screen sizes. Nakonana (talk) 00:27, 22 December 2023 (UTC)
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Woo Bum-kon → Woo Bum-kon incident – Per WP:BIO1E. Woo is notable for murdering a lot of people in one event, and not much else. Someone had previously tried to change this article to Uiryeong massacre, however this title is original research: all of the later Korean sources call it some variation of "Woo Bom-kon incident", "Woo Bom-kon shooting incident", etc, see (우범곤 사건, lit Woo Bum-kon incident). It is the clear common name, and we can't just make up our own titles. I believe this means it will be delisted as a vital article though, since it no longer fits the category it is listed in.
Also, this article still has the problem of being overwhelmingly tilted towards 80s English news coverage instead of the boatload of later, more accurate, Korean language sourcing, but as I do not speak Korean this is a difficult issue to fix. Hopefully someone will, someday. PARAKANYAA (talk) 20:56, 17 April 2024 (UTC)