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  • Dark Files: Disasters in the Air — Four Flights and the Warnings Around Them

    Dark Files: Disasters in the Air — Four Flights and the Warnings Around Them
    2026/11/02
    Welcome to Dark Files. This time, we're looking up. Every time we board a plane, we trust a long chain of people and systems we'll never see. In this compilation, we follow four flights where that chain gave way, over about thirty years. July 1993. Asiana Flight 733 makes a third try at landing at Mokpo in heavy rain, and hits a mountain hidden in the cloud. Korean reports at the time counted 66 dead; other records say 68. Helicopters search the sea, until an injured survivor comes down to a farming village. August 1997. Korean Air Flight 801 flies a working 747 into a hillside on Guam, and 228 people die by the American investigators' count. A radar warning on the ground had been deliberately switched off. Twelve seconds would likely have saved them. December 1999. Korean Air Cargo Flight 8509 leaves Stansted with a fault another crew had beaten that same day with one switch. Fifty-five seconds later, four men are dead, and the last word on the tape is "bank." December 2024. Jeju Air Flight 2216 belly-lands at Muan, the airport that replaced Mokpo, and hits a concrete mound past the runway. 179 of the 181 aboard die. When we covered it, there was still no final report. Warnings that went unanswered. Safeguards that weren't there. Let's begin. In this compilation: • Episode 109: Asiana Airlines Flight 733 Crash (아시아나항공 733편 추락 사고) • Episode 38: Korean Air Flight 801 Guam Crash • Episode 111: Korean Air Cargo Flight 8509 Crash (대한항공 8509편 추락 사고) • Episode 94: Jeju Air Flight 2216 Crash (제주항공 2216편 참사)
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    1 時間 12 分
  • Dark Files: Disasters at Sea — Three Ferries, One Warning Never Heeded

    Dark Files: Disasters at Sea — Three Ferries, One Warning Never Heeded
    2026/10/26
    Welcome to Dark Files. This time, we're going to sea. For much of modern Korea, the ferry wasn't a holiday. It was how islanders reached the mainland, how a harvest got to market, how a school trip got to Jeju. In this compilation, we follow three ferries that went down, decades apart, and the pattern that tied them together. December 1970. The Namyoung-ho leaves Jeju for Busan with her decks stacked with tangerine crates and more people aboard than she was licensed to carry. She capsizes in the dark, no Korean station answers her distress calls, and more than three hundred people die. To this day nobody can say exactly how many, because nobody kept a reliable list of who was on board. October 1993. The Seohae ferry, licensed for 221 people, sails from Wido with 362 into worsening weather. 292 die. Then the country blames the captain, who it turns out never left his post. April 2014. The Sewol, overloaded and illegally modified, rolls over off Jindo. 304 people die, most of them high school students who were told to stay where they were. Then comes the hunt for the man behind the company. Overloading that everyone knew about. Rescues that came too late. Lessons that were learned, and then lost. Let's begin. In this compilation: • Episode 54: Namyoung-ho Ferry Sinking (남영호 침몰 사고) • Episode 37: West Sea Ferry Disaster (Seohae Ferry Sinking) • Episode 6: Yoo Byung-eun and the Sewol Ferry
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  • Episode 111: Korean Air Cargo Flight 8509 Crash (대한항공 8509편 추락 사고)

    Episode 111: Korean Air Cargo Flight 8509 Crash (대한항공 8509편 추락 사고)
    2026/11/01
    The last word spoken in the cockpit of Korean Air Flight 8509 was "bank." The flight engineer had been saying it for about twenty seconds. In all that time, neither pilot said a thing about it. Earlier that same day, on the same airplane, another crew met the same fault in daylight and beat it with one switch. That night, in the dark over Essex, the captain's instrument told him his wings were level, and they were almost straight up and down. Korean Air Cargo Flight 8509 Crash (대한항공 8509편 추락 사고) · 1999-12-22 · Near Great Hallingbury and Hatfield Forest, by London Stansted Airport, Essex, England
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    20 分
  • Dark Files: Structural Collapses — When the Ground Gave Way

    Dark Files: Structural Collapses — When the Ground Gave Way
    2026/10/19
    A building is a promise. You walk in, you go to sleep, you cross a river on your way to school, and you trust that someone, somewhere, did the work to keep it standing. This is Dark Files. These are the collapses. April 1970. An apartment block in Seoul, built in six months for the city's poorest residents, comes down just four months after it was finished. Residents had reported cracks in the columns nineteen days earlier. Thirty-three people died. October 1994. On a Friday morning rush hour, a section of Seongsu Bridge drops into the Han River, taking a city bus with it. Thirty-two people are killed, nine of them schoolgirls. June 1995. The Sampoong Department Store folds in on itself in seconds. Five hundred and two people never come home. February 2014. New university students gather in a resort gym under a roof carrying snow no one had cleared. Ten of them die. And January 2022. Concrete is being poured on the top floor of a new tower in Gwangju when floor after floor gives way. Six workers are lost. Five collapses across more than half a century. In almost every one, the warning signs were there. The question each story asks is the same: why didn't anyone listen? In this compilation: • Episode 45: Wau Citizen Apartment Collapse (와우아파트 붕괴 참사) • Episode 22: Seongsu Bridge Collapse (성수대교 붕괴 사고) • Episode 4: Sampoong Department Store Collapse • Episode 93: Gyeongju Mauna Ocean Resort Gym Collapse (경주 마우나오션리조트 체육관 붕괴 사고) • Episode 92: Gwangju Hwajeong I-Park Collapse (광주 화정 아이파크 외벽 붕괴 사고)
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    1 時間 34 分
  • Episode 110: Goyang Bus Terminal Fire (고양종합터미널 화재)

    Episode 110: Goyang Bus Terminal Fire (고양종합터미널 화재)
    2026/11/01
    A teacher is riding an escalator down into a bus terminal with one of his students when he sees smoke along the ceiling. He takes her hand, turns around, and starts to climb. Five or six steps later, there's an explosion, the air turns black, and her hand is gone. The way out was about thirty paces away. That building had sprinklers, fire shutters, and alarms, and by that morning, the people running it had taken them out of action. Goyang Bus Terminal Fire (고양종합터미널 화재) · 2014-05-26 · Goyang Bus Terminal, Baekseok-dong, Ilsandong-gu, Goyang, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea
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    16 分
  • Episode 109: Asiana Airlines Flight 733 Crash (아시아나항공 733편 추락 사고)

    Episode 109: Asiana Airlines Flight 733 Crash (아시아나항공 733편 추락 사고)
    2026/10/30
    A passenger jet vanishes from radar in a summer storm, only minutes from the runway. Helicopters take off and start searching the sea. They're looking in the wrong place. The plane is on a mountain, broken into pieces, and the people hunting for it have no idea. Then an injured 21-year-old passenger walks out of the hills, finds a farming village, and tells them what's up there. Asiana Airlines Flight 733 Crash (아시아나항공 733편 추락 사고) · 1993-07-26 · Mount Ungeo, Masan-ri, Hwawon-myeon, Haenam County, South Jeolla Province, South Korea
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    17 分
  • Episode 108: Cheonan Sinking (천안함 피격 사건)

    Episode 108: Cheonan Sinking (천안함 피격 사건)
    2026/10/29
    It's a Friday night in March, in the cold Yellow Sea, close to the border with North Korea. A South Korean navy warship is on a routine patrol with 104 people on board. At 9:22 p.m., something tears the ship in half. Within minutes, both pieces are sinking into the dark. Forty-six sailors never come home. And to this day, a large part of South Korea still argues about what happened. Cheonan Sinking (천안함 피격 사건) · 2010-03-26 · Yellow Sea, about 1 nautical mile off the southwest coast of Baengnyeong Island, Ongjin County, Incheon, South Korea
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    13 分
  • Episode 107: Assassination of Kim Jong-nam (김정남 암살 사건)

    Episode 107: Assassination of Kim Jong-nam (김정남 암살 사건)
    2026/10/28
    A middle-aged man is standing by a self check-in kiosk at a busy airport in Malaysia. He's waiting for a morning flight to Macau. Two young women walk up to him. One of them reaches around from behind and wipes something across his face. Then they walk away. Within about half an hour, the man is dead. And he isn't just anyone. He's the eldest son of Kim Jong-il, and the half-brother of North Korea's ruler. Assassination of Kim Jong-nam (김정남 암살 사건) · 2017-02-13 · Departure hall, klia2 terminal, Kuala Lumpur International Airport, Sepang, Malaysia
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    14 分