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  • Episode 7: Daegu Subway Fire

    Episode 7: Daegu Subway Fire
    2026/07/16
    On the morning of February 18th, 2003, a man carried a container of gasoline onto a crowded subway train in Daegu, South Korea. He wasn't angry at anyone on board. He didn't know a single one of them. He later told police he only wanted to die — and he didn't want to die alone. He set the fire, and then he walked away. What happened next killed 192 people. And here's the part that still haunts this case: most of them didn't die on his train. They died on the second train — the one that pulled in afterward, stopped in the smoke, and had its power cut with the passengers still inside. Daegu Subway Fire · 2003-02-18 · Jungangno Station, Daegu Metro Line 1, Jung-gu, Daegu, South Korea
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    11 分
  • Episode 6: Yoo Byung-eun and the Sewol Ferry

    Episode 6: Yoo Byung-eun and the Sewol Ferry
    2026/07/15
    On the morning of April 16th, 2014, a ferry called the Sewol rolled onto its side off the southwest coast of South Korea. Three hundred and four people died. Around two hundred and fifty of them were teenagers on a school trip, and most of them died because a voice on the loudspeaker told them to stay exactly where they were. In the weeks that followed, a nation looking for someone to blame was pointed at one man — a 73-year-old church founder, businessman, and art photographer who simply vanished. What happened next was one of the strangest manhunts in Korean history: the biggest reward the country had ever offered, prosecutors searching a house with their suspect hidden inside the wall, and a body in a plum orchard that nobody recognized for forty days. Yoo Byung-eun and the Sewol Ferry · 2014-04-16 · South Korea (Sewol sank off Jindo, South Jeolla; Yoo's body found in Suncheon, South Jeolla)
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    13 分
  • Episode 5: JMS / Jeong Myeong-seok (Christian Gospel Mission)

    Episode 5: JMS / Jeong Myeong-seok (Christian Gospel Mission)
    2026/07/14
    He told them he was the messiah. Not a metaphor — the literal returned Christ, sent to finish the work Jesus left unfinished. For more than forty years, thousands of people believed him. Many of them were bright, ambitious university students, recruited through modeling clubs, sports circles, and campus Bible groups. And behind the sermons about pure, divine love, prosecutors say, was a man who used that faith as a weapon — to rape the women who trusted him most. This is the story of Jeong Myeong-seok and the group known around the world simply as JMS. JMS / Jeong Myeong-seok (Christian Gospel Mission) · 1980–2025 · South Korea (nationwide; HQ at Wolmyeongdong, Geumsan County — trials in Daejeon)
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    10 分
  • Episode 4: Sampoong Department Store Collapse

    Episode 4: Sampoong Department Store Collapse
    2026/07/13
    It was one of the busiest shopping districts in Seoul. A gleaming pink department store, five floors of luxury, packed with customers on a warm summer evening. And in less than twenty seconds, it was gone. Not a bomb. Not an earthquake. The building simply folded in on itself and dropped straight into the ground, taking more than five hundred people with it. What makes this one of the darkest stories in modern Korean history isn't that it was an accident. It's that it wasn't. Almost everyone who could have stopped it knew — and chose the money instead. This is the story of the Sampoong Department Store collapse. Sampoong Department Store Collapse · 1995-06-29 · Seocho-dong, Seocho District, Seoul, South Korea
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    9 分
  • Episode 3: Itaewon Halloween Crowd Crush

    Episode 3: Itaewon Halloween Crowd Crush
    2026/07/12
    It was supposed to be the happiest night in three years. The first Halloween without masks, without distancing rules, without a pandemic hanging over everyone's shoulders. Around a hundred thousand young people poured into one small neighborhood in Seoul to celebrate. And then, in a single narrow alley barely wider than a hallway, the crowd stopped being a crowd and became something else — a solid, crushing wall of bodies that people simply could not escape. In just a few minutes, 159 people died standing up, many of them still on their feet, unable to breathe. There was no fire. No attacker. No bomb. Just people, and a space too small to hold them. This is the story of the Itaewon crowd crush. Itaewon Halloween Crowd Crush · 2022-10-29 · Itaewon, Yongsan District, Seoul, South Korea
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    10 分
  • Episode 2: Frog Boys (Seongseo) Disappearance

    Episode 2: Frog Boys (Seongseo) Disappearance
    2026/07/12
    On a spring holiday in 1991, five little boys walked up a hill behind their homes to look for salamander eggs. They never came back. For eleven and a half years, an entire country searched for them — three hundred thousand police and soldiers, faces on milk cartons, a president giving orders on live television. And then, one autumn afternoon, a man gathering acorns on that same hillside stepped on something that turned out to be bone. Five boys, found less than two miles from their own front doors, on ground that had supposedly been searched five hundred times. This is the story of the Frog Boys — and it is still, to this day, unsolved. Frog Boys (Seongseo) Disappearance · 1991-03-26 · Mount Waryong, Seongseo, Dalseo District, Daegu, South Korea
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    9 分
  • Episode 1: Hwaseong Serial Murders

    Episode 1: Hwaseong Serial Murders
    2026/07/11
    For over thirty years, this was the case that defined "unsolved" in South Korea. Ten women, murdered in the same quiet farming region, over the course of five years. A police effort so massive it's still one of the largest manhunts in the country's history — more than a million officers deployed, tens of thousands of suspects checked, and still, nothing. The killer walked free so long that the law itself changed because of him. And then, in 2019, a single DNA match — from a man already sitting in prison for something else entirely — cracked the whole thing open. This is the story of the Hwaseong serial murders. Hwaseong Serial Murders · 1986-1991 · Hwaseong, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea
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    7 分