The “Juyeop Station Wheelchair Man” Urban Legend

In June 2017, a post appeared on a local online community in Goyang.

Its title was the kind that parents with children would not simply scroll past.
It was a warning to “be careful.”

The writer claimed that her son had been waiting for a bus near Juyeop Station when he encountered a man in a wheelchair.
The man supposedly said, “Student, can you help me?” and asked him to push the wheelchair.
When the son helped, the man allegedly tried to lead him deeper into a building.

Then the story escalated.

The son, sensing something was wrong, said he needed to use the restroom and slipped away.
At that moment, the man supposedly stood up from the wheelchair and walked off, pushing it himself.
The writer said she got chills hearing this and urged others to be cautious.

The story spread quickly.

The location was Juyeop Station.
The target was a student.
The other party was a man in a wheelchair.
And the climax was the moment he “suddenly stood up.”

It had all the ingredients to frighten people.

Comments likely poured in:
people claiming they had seen something similar,
people urging caution,
people saying they needed to warn their kids,
people asking whether the wheelchair was a disguise.

But the police investig