In <Insight>, where you meet 'intellectuals' who are said to be the best in each field, the seventh guest is Professor Kwon Il-yong, who is called 'Korea's No. 1 profiler'.
What is the growth keyword of Professor Kwon Il-yong, an expert who analyzes people's psychology and behavior, 'the one who reads the evil mind', let's read his mind~
What's the matter? There was no plan
'The person who took charge of the profiling of heinous crimes and established the profiling technique in Korea'.
I heard an amazing story that would be beyond the modifier that followed him.
“Since my religion is Catholic, I thought that there might be something I could do for others by becoming a priest…”
Maybe it's because he's used to his calm tone and solemn demeanor.
It was the dream of 'young man Kwon Il-yong' that is not easily drawn.
So how did you become a profiler?
“To be honest, it wasn’t something I decided to do.
It was difficult at home, and I was going to become a police officer because I was the eldest son of a second-generation reader.
When he joined the police force as a constable, he started out as a homicide detective.
It was around the time when the war on crime was declared, so there was a riot police unit belonging to the city police, which is the predecessor of the current wide-area investigation unit.
After working there, I became CSI.
It was an order, not a resource.”
It's something I never wanted or even thought about.
that was the start
“It was daunting at first.
I don't have any knowledge or experience about CSI (site detective), but it's fun and it goes well.
I was really lucky to have fingerprints and DNA taken wherever I went, so the results were really good.”
I wondered what kind of talent is needed for collecting evidence.
Did he have any secret know-how?
“For example, when I first started CSI, my fingerprints were visible when I went to the scene.
However, when I tried to clean it with a brush, it was erased.
I am so angry.
I was able to catch this guy, but I didn't have the ability and I couldn't collect it because I made a mistake, so I bought a tree of the same material for a month and put my fingerprints on it and practiced.
I caught the culprit with fingerprints taken at another scene, but it turned out to be the culprit I missed.”
mischief.
The dictionary meaning is 'a heart that does not want to lose to others even though it lacks ability', but it sounded like a word like effort (努力: writing a child with all the body and mind to achieve a goal).
“So, in the end, this is what I am fighting with this guy, the criminal, but in the background, you can see the victims who are suffering because of the criminal who committed this case.
This is my job. It becomes the strength to maintain these feelings.”
Experience begets another experience
“Come to think of it, I did a special treatment there.
I said I would go to another department, but I just did it.
I did that for about 8 years.
That's when I started seeing something different.
Hey, these criminals are the same as thieves, but each person behaves differently.”
As I poured my heart into the matter in front of me, I found myself contemplating a new investigative method like water flowing.
“Profiling is essentially behavioral analysis.
The method of intrusion is different, the method of searching is different, and the method of destroying evidence when escaping is all different.
But what's really surprising is that there are kids who are similar.
Interesting?
Even if fingerprints don't come out, wouldn't it be possible to know what kind of kid it is just by looking at their behavior?
I vaguely thought there might be something.”
Profiling (an investigative method of extracting a profile of a criminal by analyzing evidence or crime patterns left at the scene of a crime and specifying the criminal's psychological state or tendency) has only become common sense now, but considering that it was an unfamiliar investigative technique in Korea at the time, even the term was unfamiliar. His intuition seems to have been extraordinary.
“There was an atmosphere that said, ‘Let’s make the Korean police like the FBI because there is less evidence at the scene, there are planned crimes, and the bad guys change so quickly.
Someone had to do it.
I was ordered again without wanting to.
You are a Korean police profiler from today.
I said I was worried because I had no experience and no one to ask, and they called me like stalking me for a month.”
I was pushed on my back like that and became the 'No. 1 Profiler'.
A bit of a boring story?
How difficult was that one step, to take a silent step down a road without milestones in order to fulfill one's responsibilities?
“There is no one to ask, and this job itself doesn’t seem to be something that can be done by asking, so I don’t know what to do... I was afraid that I was going well right now. This was also very difficult.
I'm afraid and hopeless, so I look up the FBI data, but even that doesn't match.
types of crime in Korea.
Different countries have different cultures, different motives for crimes, and especially different means of committing crimes.
They are scenes where people just shoot and leave, and there is a lot of blood in Korea.
So the method of analysis is also different.”
It must have felt like walking through a fog.
But in the end, what matters is that you did it.
I have never set a goal, but the reason why I was recognized as one of the best profilers in Korea is because I am particularly 'good' at profiling, and what kind of 'profiler material' I was born with.
“Motivation is formed when I empathize with the victim’s pain.
Then, no matter what kind of vagueness and fear I have when I meet a criminal, I can overcome this because when I empathize with the pain of the victim, I have a goal, so I can control the situation.
How do you view such a brutal scene, but if you look at it with the thought that you must reveal what happened, you start to see action rather than cruelty.”
If you are 'crazy' in analyzing the scene of an incident with a cool perspective, it can affect the catching of the criminal in the end.
It is said that it was all that I had been steadily working hard with that idea.
When anxiety eats the soul
17 years as a profiler, 28 years and 6 months of police work together.
Looking at a cruel scene for decades, I think even an expert would be traumatized.
“I overcame a lot while drinking tea or eating with my colleagues.
Trauma is something you can't talk about anywhere, but we went through it together.
I wasn't alone, you were with me while drinking tea.
Yes, when you're having a hard time, I'm having a hard time.
Thank you very much.
After about an hour, serotonin is secreted.
Like a happy wave.”
It is said that people who share daily stories and social ties actually helped to stabilize the mind.
I believed in what I had experienced.
And this isn't just about you.
“After meeting more than 1,000 criminals, I felt isolated psychologically even though I was living with my family.
Sever social ties.
When we see people passing by, we think that they are someone who lives in the society we live in.
If the relationship is cut off, who did I hit when I was angry, why should I be sorry?
The world I live in and the world you live in are different.
Since they all come out of isolation, I thought I should watch them carefully.”
“I think we often forget that monsters are created in our societies.
If you are shaken by anxiety and are vulnerable to stress, no one knows what will happen.
Don’t be obsessive about what I have to say and explain, just thinking that I have somewhere to go and that there are people waiting for me even after work is over and there are people who will listen to me can control this.
Emotions help me get out of my sense of isolation, and they do the same thing.
No matter what difficult and difficult situations we face in life, overcoming them is a sense of community that I am with, and I think I can overcome embarrassing and difficult situations if I have this.”
I hoped that in order to prevent the birth of 'evil people', I would have the idea of 'living together' with the people around me and next to me.
Is there any advice you can give as a senior in life, not as a profiler, to young people who feel anxious because they cannot know the future?
“Actually, I don’t think that results come out suddenly at any moment.
When I was young, I was always anxious, afraid, and the future was unclear, and when I was doing something I wanted to do, there were always things that held me back.
It wasn't like I was going to become a police officer, do special promotions while doing CSI, catch a lot of criminals, and become a famous cop.
Catching this guy in front of you in the field piled up and piled up, so you were recognized as CSI.
We have to believe in our feet in the present where we are walking.
But I can't trust my feet.
I'm really debating whether or not to do this.
Life is just a series of choices, and the path I took is the result of the choices.”
There must be some young people who set grand aspirations or clear goals and are running towards them.
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