The Real-Life Inspiration

The film references the Gyeonggi Namyangju serial killings (also known as the Gapyeong serial murders) that occurred between 2003 and 2004 in rural South Korea. is the gangster the cop the devil based on true story

Thinking it was a minor fender bender, the gangster got out of his luxury sedan to inspect the damage—and to intimidate the other driver. This was a fatal miscalculation. The driver of the other car was not a terrified citizen; he was a serial killer named Kang Ho-sung. The 2019 South Korean action-thriller The Gangster, the

The core, unbelievable premise—A serial killer accidentally attacks a mob boss, and the mob boss hunts him down—is 100% factual. The screenwriters took that extraordinary seed of reality and grew a fictional forest around it. The driver of the other car was not