Murder Case One

This is about a murder case which was reported to Seoul's Joong-gu (middle section) police station. It was Monday afternoon around 3 PM, and the caller was a 16 year old Baduk yungusaeng (insei).

When the detective Kwan arrived at the murder scene with his assistant Myung, there were quite few people in the room already.

The building where the murder happened was belonged to Hangook Giwon (Korean National Baduk organization), and had 3 stories with no elevator. And the entire floors of the first and second were used for public and the third floor for administrators' offices with one small room for private guests.

The small room was named 'Flying Dragon' and the room was often used for private teaching lessons given by pro baduk players. The murder happened in that room.

The victim was a famous pro, age 45, who won many titles in his early 20's, and before he was killed, he spent most of his time writing baduk books and teaching high profiled amateurs including company CEO's, politicians and lawyers.

Detective Kwan himself was a baduk player and familiar with the victim's baduk books especially the most famous one titled 'Invade and Kill'.

When he kneeled down to examine the victim's body, Kwan immediately noticed the victim's head was smashed, smashed so hard a portion of brain was spilt out on the floor in a pool of blood.

Kwan looked around and saw a young policeman yelling at the spectators to be quiet. Kwan waved at him and when the young policeman came to him close enough, Kwan asked if he found any murder weapon. And he said 'no' with some degree of apology. But he also said he was just outside of the building at the moment the boy called the police station, he was radioed immediately and within the matter of minutes he could seal the two doors (only doors of the building) and he didn't let anybody leave the building. When he said that his face lit up with a pride.

Kwan asked the policeman to bring the boy to him.

The boy looked a bit older than his age, didn't look like a typical baduk yungusaeng. He was over 180cm, well built. Only his eyes were sparkling like a pair of bright stars like most of those brilliant young baduk players.

The detective waved at his assistant Myung (a young female detective) and asked her to record the conversation between him and the boy. But the questions went on not more than 10 minutes. Becuase Myung suddenly whispered something into Kwan's ear.

Kwan arrested the boy as a murderer.

While the interview went on, Myung noticed the boy is missing a sock.

Blood soaked sock was found in a trash can in the room.

The boy filled his sock with baduk-dols (Go stones) and used it as a weapon.

The motive of the murder?

When Kwan heard it from the boy, he couldn't believe his ears.

The boy was denied an 'undo'.