Dark Korea — Korean True Crime & Mysteries
Dark KoreaThe crimes and mysteries Korea won't talk about — deeply researched and respectfully told. Each episode reconstructs a Korean true-crime case, unsolved disappearance, cult, or disaster: what happened, how, and why.
| Publishes | Daily | Episodes | 24 | Founded | a month ago |
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| Number of Listeners | Category | True Crime | |||
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At thirty-eight minutes past seven on a Friday morning in October 1994, a forty-eight-metre section of a Seoul bridge stopped existing. There was no warning. No slow sag, no groan of failing metal, no time for anyone to brake. The deck between two pi... more
For sixteen days in the winter of 1991, a man in Seoul phoned a father some fifty times and told him what to do next. Where to drive. Which bakery. Which lamp post. How many minutes to wait before opening the boot of his car. He was calm. He was poli... more
In 2005, staff at a school for deaf children in Gwangju reported that their own colleagues had been sexually abusing the students. At least eight children were identified. Six staff members were implicated — including the principal, who was the found... more
On the seventh of March, 2009, a twenty-nine-year-old actress died in her home south of Seoul. She had been on national television nine weeks earlier, in one of the biggest dramas of the year. And a week after she died, a document surfaced — handwrit... more
A little after midnight on the seventeenth of May, 2016, a man walked into a shared toilet in a small building near Gangnam Station in Seoul and locked himself in a stall. He stayed there for roughly half an hour. In that time, six men came in, used ... more
Some case files never really close. In this Dark Files compilation, we've put four of them side by side — four men who killed again and again in South Korea, and four very different reasons the country couldn't stop them sooner. We start in the count... more
In 2004, in a small city in the south of Korea, a group of high school boys attacked the same middle school girl over and over for the better part of a year. When police finally counted them, the number they wrote down was forty-four. Ten were sent t... more
On a December morning in 2008, an eight-year-old girl in Ansan set off for school and never arrived. What happened to her in the next few minutes left injuries so severe that surgeons were fighting to keep her alive. The man who did it was fifty-six,... more
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Apple Podcasts | #238 |  Indonesia/True Crime |
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Across recent episodes, the show consistently revisits high-profile Korean true crime cases, near-misses, and systemic failures, with a strong emphasis on how institutions respond to crisis, accountability, and public memory. Topics frequently center on serial murders, large-scale disasters, and high-profile investigations—ranging from long-unsolved disappearances and courtroom reforms to cyber crimes involving minors and mass-tragedy safety gaps. Narratives are built around careful timelines, psychological angles, and the human impact on families and communities, offering listeners a blend of procedural detail, social critique, and policy context that can inform risk, governance, and crisis response strategies for professionals in PR, mark... more
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