#285: Korean Influencer Took Break From Social Media & Found Murdered 2 Months Later

Rotten Mango

Stephanie Soo

True Crime, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.8 • 25.7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2023

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Ah-young, a popular Korean live-streamer, took to Instagram to tell her devoted followers that she was suddenly taking a break. In a long post, she wrote about how she wanted just to be a “normal person” for a little while. After seeing her post, one of Ah-Young’s friends texted her to see if she had any big plans during her break. Ah-Young responded - “I am leaving the country because of my stalker. Hopefully, I can come back soon and spend some time to myself.” She would never come back. She would be found dead 2 months later 2,195 miles away in a foreign country. How did she end up there? Was she hiding? Did her stalker find her there? The viral case has only stirred up more questions than answers. Full Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Before we get started, I just want to say I'm so sorry, we found out in post that the
0:06.3	first 28 minutes something happened with the audio, but it should resume back to normal
0:10.2	after the 28 minutes.
0:11.8	March 16th of 2023, a Korean livestreamer by the name of I-O. Posts on her Instagram.
0:18.4	So this is like a few months ago earlier this year. And she posted she's quitting her
0:23.1	online career, or at least for the foreseeable future. She's like, I'm done, I'm taking
0:27.9	a break. Her post was kind of long, but it goes into depth about how she just, she just
0:33.5	wants to live a more authentic life. She wants to post on Instagram like a normal person.
0:39.6	She doesn't want to be caught up in the numbers and the pressure and all of these extra
0:43.7	stressors. She says, you know, I'm never going to forget the support that I receive from
0:47.9	you guys. I'm still going to respond to DMs and maybe in the future one day, maybe. I'm
0:53.7	going to be back on YouTube after I live a normal life for a while. She wrote that she's
0:58.1	really excited for her life and just wants to truly be a normal person. Now, obviously,
1:05.6	her viewers have mixed feelings about this. Some of them are happy for her. Some of them
1:09.9	feel this bitter sweetness. A lot of them just feel sad. A lot of them are just devastated.
1:14.9	It felt like it came out of nowhere. Not only that, the post was so vague. It's not like
1:20.7	some big event took place online. It's not like some personal life event that they knew
1:25.0	up took place. It just kind of felt like she was leaving for mental health reasons, but
1:29.3	nobody knew exactly why. Did something happen? And when some things that had vague on social
1:34.7	media, people are going to come up with speculations. Even recently in the US, an American YouTuber
1:40.2	posted about how she had gone to a potluck with the cult. Do you remember this? It was
1:44.7	like all over social media. And then she just disappeared for like a month or two. Everyone
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