Video: 'The Daegu Metro Disaster - Terror On The Subway (Arson, Mass Murder)'

(Tuesday, February 18, 2003, 9:53 a.m. Korea Standard Time; during the Daegu subway fire) — 192 people died and 151 others were injured today at the Jungangno station of the Daegu Metropolitan Subway in Daegu, South Korea, today when an arsonist set fire to a train.

The fire spread across two trains within minutes. It remains the deadliest deliberate loss of life in a single incident in South Korean peacetime history.

The arsonist, Kim Dae-han, a 56-year-old unemployed former taxi driver who had suffered a stroke in November 2001 that left him partly paralyzed. Kim was dissatisfied with his medical treatment and had expressed sentiments of violence and depression.

He later told police he wanted to kill himself, but to do so in a crowded place rather than alone.