All of the foreign nationals under sentence of death in South Korea between 2016 and 2021 were Chinese nationals and were involving cases of rape and murder. Park was sentenced to death in 2000. He appealed to the SCOURT but the case was dismissed, upholding the lower court’s death penalty. Wang Li Wei Wang Li Wei, a Chinese national, entered South Korea on an industrial trainee program. Entrance placard to one of the prisons for foreign nationals Kyung Su Park Kyung Su Park, a Chinese-Korean from China, entered South Korea for an industrial trainee program. After running away without permission from the workplace, he raped, robbed and killed two women. He was sentenced to death in December 2000. His appeal was dismissed in November 2001. Park ran away from his workplace without permission and was living in Korea as an illegal immigrant when he broke into the home of a mother and daughter, where he raped and murdered three people in the house. Acknowledgements With special thanks to Chae Yun Bae for his assistance with this research in South Korea. Death Penalty Research Unit, University of Oxford For more research see: foreign-nationals.uwazi.io or tinyurl.com/mappingdeathrow

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