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Won-Joon Yoon, a 26-year-old Korean graduate student, was tragically killed on July 4, 1999, in Bloomington, Indiana. Yoon had recently arrived in Bloomington to prepare for his enrollment in the Ph.D. program in economics at Indiana University. On the day of his death, he was outside the Korean United Methodist Church on East Third Street, waiting for the service to begin, when he was fatally shot by Benjamin Nathaniel Smith, a white supremacist who had embarked on a racially motivated shooting ...Read More
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Won-Joon Yoon
Male
Asian
Bloomington
IN
1999-07-04
26
Won-Joon
Yoon
11/15/2025
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I've been thinking a lot about the beautiful way the Bloomington community came together in the wake... ...Read More
09/21/2023
09/21/2023
I was reading about the case of Won-Joon Yoon, and it really struck me how someone so full of promis... ...Read More
08/31/2023
08/31/2023
I was reflecting on the tragic loss of Won-Joon Yoon and couldn't help but think about the horrifyin... ...Read More
04/13/2023
04/13/2023
