South Korean director Kim Chang-min was beaten to death by six people while trying to protect his autistic son! Eyewitness: He was strangled and dragged out of the store and continued beating. The suspect is still at large.
On April 2, 2026, surveillance footage of a violent death case in a restaurant in Guri, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea was exposed online. The truth about the 40-year-old director Kim Chang-min who was beaten to death to protect his autistic son finally broke months of silence.
The Korean media had been praising Kim Chang-min as "the last love left in the world", saying that he donated his organs to save the lives of four people after he died of a sudden cerebral hemorrhage. It wasn't until the JTBC program "Incident Squad" was publicly monitored on March 31, 2026, that everyone knew how cruel the truth was – that he was beaten to death.
A fatal choice for a late-night bowl of fried pork chops
In the early morning of October 20, 2025, Kim Changmin took his autistic son into a 24-hour restaurant in Guri, Gyeonggi Province. The child suddenly wanted to eat fried pork chops in the middle of the night, and the father went out without any hesitation. The two of them sat down quietly and waited for their meal, but the autistic child made some unconscious noises while eating. For this matter, two men in their 20s at the next table directly scolded him.
Jin Changmin immediately stood up and apologized, not once or twice, his posture was as low as the dust. It's not that he's afraid of things, he just doesn't want his children to be frightened.
But his concession only resulted in intensification. The insults escalated into provocations, with someone bumping his desk and pushing him. Jin Changmin subconsciously stood in front of the child. This action completely ignited the violence in this group of people.
6 people surrounded and beat them, strangled them and dragged them out to continue beating.
Witnesses said that there were at least six attackers, and they were not fighting each other at all, but a unilateral crushing. A tall man in black clothes strangled Jin Changmin's neck from behind, causing him to faint on the spot.
Do you think this is the end? No.
This group of people grabbed the unconscious Jin Changmin and dragged him out of the restaurant to the roadside where they continued to beat him. What is even more disturbing is that some of the perpetrators are laughing while beating. There was no trace of guilt in that laughter, it was all cruel teasing.
Jin Changmin regained consciousness briefly, struggled to stand up and opened his hands to beg for mercy. A man in a plaid shirt punched him and knocked him to the ground. The restaurant manager wanted to call the police, but the assailant rushed over and snatched the phone away, threatening to beat you "if you interfere in other people's business."
His son, who has autism, witnessed the entire process of his father being beaten.
The hospital is nearby, but it took almost an hour to get to the hospital.
There is a university hospital near the crime scene, which is very close. However, there was a big problem with emergency dispatch and communication. It took almost an hour after Jin Changmin was knocked down to be sent to the hospital. This is not an isolated case. In the same month, a senior high school boy in Busan suffered from convulsions. The emergency team contacted 14 hospitals but was refused admission. The patient was delayed for more than an hour and finally died. The loopholes in South Korea's emergency medical system once again cost Kim Changmin his life.
After being in a coma in the hospital for 18 days, Jin Changmin was judged to be brain dead on November 7, 2025. The family endured their grief, respected his last wishes, donated his heart, liver and kidneys, and successfully saved four critically ill patients.
At that time, the Korean media reported him as a positive example, but no one knew that he was actually beaten to death.
The family hid it for 5 months and did not dare to tell the truth.
Jin Changmin's sister later said that in the past five months, they had been lying to the outside world that he died of "sudden cerebral hemorrhage" because they were afraid that the six perpetrators would abscond after seeing the news.
There is another reason that is even more distressing – the autistic son has witnessed his father being beaten throughout the whole process and has been greatly stimulated. His family members simply do not dare to tell him that his father is gone. The lawyer said that the child often fell into extreme anxiety after the incident. He could not sleep at night, would scream suddenly, and would tremble with fear when strangers approached him.
6 perpetrators are still living a normal life on the street
After the truth was exposed, the entire Internet exploded. But what is even more desperate is the judicial progress – the police initially only identified one suspect, and the application for detention was rejected by the prosecutor because "supplementary investigation is needed." After supplementary investigation, the police applied for arrest warrants for the two main suspects for the crime of injury causing death. The court rejected the request on the grounds that "the suspects have a fixed residence and there is no risk of destroying evidence."
Six people beat a father to death, but the suspect has not been detained and can still live a normal life on the street without even a single apology.
The identities of the other four perpetrators have not even been locked.
Jin Changmin's old father held back his grief during the interview and asked: "My son was beaten to death, but those people can still walk on the street with such arrogance. Why?"
After the truth was exposed in March 2026, Korean netizens launched a petition to "severely punish violent crimes" on the Blue House's official website, which received more than 2 million signatures within 72 hours. The topic of Kim Chang-min’s bill has been read more than 1.5 billion times on Twitter.
Kim Chang Min entered the industry in 2013 and has participated in the art work of well-known films such as "The Witch" and "The Suspect". The short films he directed focused on marginalized people in society and called on everyone to pay attention to the disadvantaged groups. He had always spoken out for the weak during his lifetime, but in the end he fell to the violence of a group of thugs because he was protecting his autistic son.
And that group of people are still fine now, eating and drinking as they should.
