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Yoo Young-chul

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Yoo Young-chul (Korean: 유영철, romanized: Yu Yeongcheol; born 18 April 1970) is a South Korean serial killer, sex offender, and self-confessed cannibal. After he admitted to the murders of multiple people, mostly prostitutes and wealthy old women, the Seoul Central District Court convicted him of 20 murders, although one case was dismissed when it was identified as being committed by another serial killer, Jeong Nam-gyu. Yoo burned three and mutilated at least 11 of his victims and admitted that he ate the livers of some of them. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yoo Young-chul has received more than 2,073,427 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Yoo Young-chul is the 193rd most popular extremist (down from 156th in 2019), the 180th most popular biography from South Korea (down from 128th in 2019) and the most popular South Korean Extremist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 2.1M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.89

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.58

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.99

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Yoo Young-chuls by language

Over the past year Yoo Young-chul has had the most page views in the with 216,146 views, followed by Korean (93,325), and Chinese (43,605). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Egyptian Arabic (91.84%), Korean (62.67%), and Malay (48.59%)

Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Yoo Young-chul ranks 193 out of 283. Before him are Guy Burgess, Brigitte Mohnhaupt, John Wesley Hardin, Amelia Dyer, Ramadan Shalah, and Luis Posada Carriles. After him are Mohamed Atta, Richard Speck, Stanley Williams, Ross Ulbricht, Mary Surratt, and Charles Starkweather.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1970, Yoo Young-chul ranks 93. Before him are Kim Hye-soo, Shemar Moore, Prince Moulay Rachid of Morocco, Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Jim Courier, and Noureddine Naybet. After him are Todd Phillips, Paul Potts, Barry Pepper, Han Kang, Mustafa Sandal, and Kevin Smith.

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In South Korea

Among people born in South Korea, Yoo Young-chul ranks 180 out of 1,128. Before him are Kim Hye-soo (1970), Han Hyo-joo (1987), Choi Jin-sil (1968), Jo Jung-suk (1980), Lee Jong-suk (1989), and G-Dragon (1988). After him are Park Shin-hye (1990), Huh Jung-moo (1955), Uhm Jung-hwa (1969), Bae Yong-joon (1972), Han Kang (1970), and BoA (1986).

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Among EXTREMISTS In South Korea

Among extremists born in South Korea, Yoo Young-chul ranks 1. After him are Seung-Hui Cho (1984).

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