Korean cannibal clan who ATE their wealthy victims: How warped Chijon Family hunted 'rich snobs' to eat, fed terrified captive human liver and held a pork barbecue to hide the smell By Perkin Amalaraj Published: 03:45 EDT, 27 October 2024 | Updated: 03:45 EDT, 27 October 2024 e-mail View comments The Chijon family hosted a neighbourhood barbecue in the autumn of 1994, inviting people in the area around their isolated home in the small town of Bulgap-myeon, South Korea . There was little to suggest that the seemingly-generous group were anything more than a set of amiable, if rag-tag, people who had selflessly spent their hard-earned money on renovating the house of one of their members' mothers. But the barbecued pork they dished out to their neighbours was a facade that hid a terrible truth, involving rape, kidnapping, extortion, murder and cannibalism, masking the stench of cooked human flesh that was thrown into an underground incinerator just feet below the social gathering.
The truth was that the Chijon family, now-infamous for their gnawing hunger for human flesh and vitriolic hatred of 'rich snobs', were unlike any family who came before them. They weren't related by blood, only the fury of the dispossessed, and worked more like a gang, interested only in leeching money from those unfortunate enough to come across them. Between the family's formation and their subsequent executions just over a year later, they targeted and kidnapped those they deemed wealthy, subjected.