Seoul Detention Center Explained

The Seoul Detention Center (; Hanja:서울拘置所, alternatively Seoul Prison)^[1] is a prison in Uiwang, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea,^[2] operated by the Korea Correctional Service.

History

The Detention Center was completed in July 1967.^[3]

According to a 1992 report by the Lawyers for Democratic Society, in 1990 the Detention Center had 1,500 prisoners in the medical section with only one full-time doctor, and prisoners frequently lacked necessary medical treatments.^[4]

Operations

The Center houses an execution chamber.^[5]

Notable prisoners

Current

• Yoo Young-chul: South Korean serial killer.^[5] Sentenced to death in 2004, awaiting execution.

Former

• Former South Korean president Roh Tae-woo^{[6] [7]}
• Lee Jae-yong

Vice Chairman of Samsung Group^{[8] [9]}

• Park Geun-hye: Former president of South Korea who was impeached and sentenced to prison for bribery, abuse of power, and other offenses.^{[10] [11]}
• Kang Chang-gu: Serial killer, executed on April 17, 1990.
• Oen Bo-hyun: Spree killer, executed on November 2, 1995.
• Six members of the Chijon family, executed on November 2, 1995.

Notes and References

1. Book: Hŭi-ho Yi. My love, my country. 2000. Center for Multiethnic and Transnational Studies, University of Southern California. 978-1-884445-34-7. 78.
2. Book: Gong Ji-young. Our Happy Time. 1 July 2014. Simon and Schuster. 978-1-4767-3047-9. 180.
3. Book: Resource Material Series. December 2011. UNAFEI. 16.
4. Book: Youngtae Shin. Protest Politics and the Democratization of South Korea: Strategies and Roles of Women. 20 November 2014. Lexington Books. 978-0-7391-9026-5. 115.
5. News: Samsung Heir's New Office Is in Prison Housing a Serial Killer . . Lee is at the Seoul Detention Center, located outside the industrial city of Anyang, south of Seoul. His fellow inmates include Park’s former chief of staff, Kim Ki-choon, and Yoo Young-chul, a self-confessed cannibal on death row for killing about 20 people. The compound houses an execution chamber. . Sam . Kim . February 22, 2017 . January 1, 2018.
6. Book: Daily Report: East Asia. 1995. The Service. 42.
7. Book: Asian Survey. 1996. University of California Press. 56.
8. Book: Shaun Rein. The War for China's Wallet: Profiting from the New World Order. 4 December 2017. Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. 978-1-5015-0761-8. 26.
9. Web site: Tewari. Suranjana. August 13, 2021. Lee Jae-yong: Samsung heir released from prison on parole. September 4, 2021. BBC.
10. News: Park, who was awaiting the ruling at a room of the Seoul Central Prosecutors' Office, was taken to the Seoul Detention Center in Uiwang, Gyeonggi Province, soon after the decision was announced. Park -- in prison garb -- is expected to travel back and forth to the prosecutors' office for additional questioning before being formally indicted. . Si-soo . Park . March 31, 2017 . April 1, 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170401040413/https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/nation/2017/03/251_226702.html . April 1, 2017 . PARK GEUN-HYE ARRESTED. .
11. News: Ousted South Korean leader goes from presidential palace to solitary cell . Tong-Hyung . Kim . . March 31, 2017 . April 1, 2017 . Park Geun-hye entered the Seoul Detention Center in a black sedan before dawn Friday after a court approved her arrest on corruption allegations..