Choi Gyeo-ul

Biography
Choi “Kumiho” Gyeo-ul (Korean: 최겨울, choi gyeoul) (Born January 1, 2004 in Busan, South Korea) was a former South Korean schoolgirl turned serial killer.

At the age of 17, she was brutally raped by four classmates that was filmed by a female classmate who pretended to be her friend.

Due to South Korea’s juvenile law, her rapists and her classmate were let off with just ‘a slap on the wrist’ due to them being minors.

Appearance
Gyeo-ul had long black hair and brown eyes, wore a school uniform despite dropping out a month after her ordeal, which consists of a collared white shirt with a bow, a blazer with a nametag, vest and a patterned pleated skirt, she holds an butcher knife and while murdering wears a fox mask.

She after joining the Xiaoying Gang wears a paramilitary uniform which includes a beret, vest, catsuit, gloves and boots.

Her schoolbag is a BTS schoolbag which she uses to hide weapons.

Personality
Originally a trusting schoolgirl who was happy and cheerful, after her six hour horrific ordeal and the dismissal of her teachers, she became cruel, violent, homicidal and paranoid.

She became murderous after a month and a teacher blamed her for her rape, Her first victim was the teacher after slitting his throat with a kitchen knife, she then stole a fox mask and painted it to look like the Kumiho, a Korean fox spirit that was mostly malevolent.

History
Gyeo-ul was born in Busan, South Korea to Choi Seung-hee and Sang-yu, Seung-hi died when she was four due to an allergic reaction while Sang-yu died of a cardiac arrest when she was 18.

She was said to live a normal life according to former classmates until her horrifying ordeal.

In Feburary 2021, When she was 17, a classmate of hers, Rhee Da-rae invited her to a park where she said her boyfriend Yang Da-woon and three friends would be waiting so they could talk and hang out.

Da-rae actually lied to her and she took out a phone to film her boyfriend and his friends tear off her clothing and rape her, She filmed the ordeal on her phone and called her a “slut” as she tried to fight back.

After six hours, she was dumped in a bush and found by a passerby, who then called the police, Gyeo-ul was hospitalized.

Sang-yu pressed charges against them, the parents of the culprits and Da-rae blamed Gyeo-ul for it, with her father calling the victim “a little whore”.

Due to South Korea’s Juvenile law, The law could not give them a prison sentence, they were given probation and community service.

After her ordeal, Gyeo-ul became irritable, violent and extremely mouthy, her grades began to slip due to fighting with her teachers, a teacher then blamed victim blamed her for her ordeal, which caused her to snap.

She ended up getting a knife from her family kitchen and put it in her backpack, she gently kissed her mother goodbye and told her she loved her before she sneaked the knife into her backpack.

The next day, she asked the same teacher if she could help her find a missing answer sheet after it was reported it went missing in the faculty room, Once they were in a room, she slit his throat and left him to die.

The teacher, Kim Beo-dul died an hour later from blood loss and she went on like nothing happened after cleaning herself up, even telling others she accidentally got paint on her, She washed her uniform in a washroom and cleaned the knife secretly before taking it home.

In October 2021, she located Da-woon and his friends in the school after midnight, she poured gasoline on Da-woon before setting him alight, then stabbed two of them to death, before interrogating the last one where Da-rae was, when he told her she was in Florida as a part of an exchange trip, she gave him a glare and snapped his neck when he asked she was going to spare him.

She became known as “Kumiho” due to her fox mask and her brutally violent ways of killing her victims

In January 2022, Her mother died of a cardiac arrest in her sleep due to a heart condition, after the funeral, She fled to America to find Da-rae, after a month, she found her in a shop and followed her, when she noticed Gyeo-ul, the schoolgirl she victimized dragged her to an alleyway and stabbed her to death, then stole her phone, she then crushed her skull when she saw she was going to upload the video of her gangrape online, when killing her, Gyeo-ul mockingly called her ‘Eric Harris’ and called her and her friend Bong-Cha ‘Eric and Dylan’, referencing the Columbine shooters, Gyeo-ul said they dressed as the Columbine killers during a Halloween party, which caused both to be suspended, their stunt deeply hurt their English teacher who survived the Columbine shooting.

At the start of February, she was found by Zhao Xiaoying and Joseph Cho after defending her from a white supremacist.

In May, she tracked down Eun Bong-Cha, abducted her and brought her back to the gang hideout, and began to torture her while mockingly calling her ‘Dylan’ asking her where ‘Eric’ was, She died three hours later.

When she died, Lei, Hang-il and Longwei noticed she looked listless and apathetic, and did not resist Hang-il and Lei having to lead her back into her room when she was stopped from shooting the body with Longwei’s gun, she talked mostly about Bong-cha’s denial of what she did from dressing up as Dylan Klebold for Halloween and her having footage of her gangrape on her phone.

“I can’t believe it, she dresses up as Dylan Klebold one Halloween, told me I’m a slut and she thinks she’s done nothing wrong when I found that fucking footage on her phone and she wasn’t even fucking frightened when I sliced her breast and kneecapped her….”

Trivia

 * She is a huge fan of K-Pop, her favorite band is BTS and her favorite of the band members is Suga.
 * Her favorite drama is My Roomate is a Gumiho.
 * She likes Japanese cooking.
 * Despite her having no hesitation to kill, torture and use physical violence, She has no interest in violent Korean shows and movies such as Squid Game, Train to Busan, #Alive and All Of Us Are Dead, Lei and Joseph think it’s because she needs time to heal after her horrific ordeal and is put of violence, this is helped by the fact she said she liked Train to Busan prior.
 * Her room is K-Pop and K-Drama themed, she has a collection of BT21 plushies on her bed and BTS posters, which is a stark contrast from the rooms of her other gang members.
 * She has requested Japanese manga and Korean manhwa, but the content must be checked to avoid potentially seeing something sexual assault related.
 * Prior to her gangrape, she had an interest in true crime, Afterwards, she threw away anything true crime related because it reminded her so much of her ordeal.