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  • Dark Files: Across the Line — four cases where the Korean War never really stopped

    Dark Files: Across the Line — four cases where the Korean War never really stopped
    2026/09/14
    Four cases tonight, and one line running through all of them — the line drawn across Korea in 1953 that everybody involved called temporary. We start on an island in the Yellow Sea. In January 1968, thirty-one North Korean commandos walked to Seoul to kill President Park Chung-hee. South Korea's answer was a mirror: thirty-one men, recruited off the street as civilians, trained on a quarter-square-kilometre rock called Silmido to go north and kill Kim Il-sung. The order never came. Seven of them died on that island. In August 1971, the ones still alive killed their guards, crossed to the mainland and hijacked a bus toward Seoul — and for thirty-five years the state said they had never existed at all. Then Panmunjom, 1976, where two American officers were killed with axes over a poplar tree that had grown tall enough to block a line of sight, and the peninsula spent three days at the edge of another war. Then Rangoon, 1983: an explosive fixed to the ceiling of a mausoleum and fired by remote control, timed for a South Korean president whose motorcade had not yet arrived. Seventeen members of his delegation were already standing underneath it. And 1987, over the Andaman Sea. A radio left in an overhead bin. One hundred and fifteen people who were never found. Four cases. One border. In this compilation: • Episode 40: Silmido Incident (Unit 684) • Episode 53: Panmunjom Axe Murder Incident (판문점 도끼 만행 사건) • Episode 52: Rangoon Aung San Mausoleum Bombing (아웅산 묘소 폭탄 테러) • Episode 23: Korean Air Flight 858 Bombing (대한항공 858편 폭파 사건)
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    2 時間 16 分
  • Episode 64: Shin Chang-won Prison Escape and Manhunt (신창원 탈옥 사건)

    Episode 64: Shin Chang-won Prison Escape and Manhunt (신창원 탈옥 사건)
    2026/09/15
    At three in the morning on the twentieth of January, 1997, a man serving life in a prison in Busan pulled himself up into the ceiling of a cell toilet and squeezed through a ventilation hole roughly the size of a kitchen drawer. To get through it, he had spent months starving himself thin. To cut the bars, he had used two small saw blades hidden in the soles of his shoes, twenty minutes a night, filling the cuts with chewing gum so nobody would see them. He was gone by the time the morning roll call reached his name. What followed was what Korean media still describe as the longest hunt for an escaped prisoner in the country's modern history — nine hundred and seven days, something on the order of nine hundred and seventy thousand police deployments, four and a half million wanted posters. And somewhere in the middle of it, a country that was losing its savings in a financial crisis started, quietly and then not so quietly, to root for him. Shin Chang-won Prison Escape and Manhunt (신창원 탈옥 사건) · 1997-01-20 · Busan Prison, Busan; a nationwide manhunt across South Korea; captured in Suncheon, South Jeolla Province
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    37 分
  • Episode 63: People's Revolutionary Party Rebuilding Committee Case (인민혁명당 재건위원회 사건)

    Episode 63: People's Revolutionary Party Rebuilding Committee Case (인민혁명당 재건위원회 사건)
    2026/09/14
    At about five in the morning on the ninth of April, 1975, a man named Seo Do-won was taken out of a cell in a Seoul prison and hanged. Eighteen hours earlier, the Supreme Court of South Korea had finished confirming his death sentence. The reading had taken roughly ten minutes. Over the next few hours, seven more men followed him, at intervals of about half an hour each. Thirty-two years later a Korean court reopened the same file and found that all eight were innocent — that the organisation they had been hanged for belonging to had never actually existed. This is the case that jurists around the world came to call judicial murder. People's Revolutionary Party Rebuilding Committee Case (인민혁명당 재건위원회 사건) · 1974-1975 · Namsan KCIA headquarters and the Seoul Detention Center, Seoul; Army Headquarters military courtroom; Daegu and North Gyeongsang Province
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    40 分
  • Dark Files: Made to Confess — four cases the confession decided

    Dark Files: Made to Confess — four cases the confession decided
    2026/09/07
    For a long stretch of South Korean criminal justice, a confession was the end of the argument. Once a man said he had done it, everything he said afterwards was heard as a liar changing his story. This Dark Files compilation puts four of those cases side by side. We start in Hwaseong. In 1989, a young man named Yoon Sung-yeo was questioned over the eighth murder in the country's most notorious serial-killer series and gave a confession he always insisted was coerced. He served a full twenty years. He was cleared only in 2020, after DNA identified Lee Choon-jae — who then admitted the killing himself. Then Busan, January 1990, and a woman murdered in the reed beds by the Nakdong River. Two friends, picked up nearly two years later over a thirty-thousand-won matter, confessed and served twenty-one years and five months. The lawyer who lost their appeal, Moon Jae-in, later became president and called it the case he most regretted. A court acquitted them in 2021. Then Samrye, 1999, where the survivors of a robbery said the intruders spoke with a Gyeongsang accent — and police arrested three local teenagers instead. And Iksan, 2000, where a fifteen-year-old delivery boy found a dying taxi driver, called for help, and was arrested for the murder three days later. Four confessions. Not one of them true. In this compilation: • Episode 1: Hwaseong Serial Murders • Episode 51: Nakdong River Murder Case Wrongful Conviction (낙동강변 살인사건) • Episode 50: Samrye Nara Supermarket Robbery-Homicide (삼례 나라슈퍼 강도치사 사건) • Episode 49: Iksan Yakchon Intersection Taxi Driver Murder (익산 약촌오거리 택시기사 살인사건)
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    1 時間 46 分
  • Episode 62: Kim Dae-jung Abduction (김대중 납치 사건)

    Episode 62: Kim Dae-jung Abduction (김대중 납치 사건)
    2026/09/13
    On the afternoon of August the eighth, 1973, a man walked out of a hotel room on the twenty-second floor of a building in central Tokyo, and vanished. He was not a criminal. He was the man who had come within about eight percentage points — under a million votes — of beating the president of South Korea in a national election two years earlier. Five days later he turned up in an alley behind a filling station in Seoul, bruised, with a cut lip, and rang the doorbell of his own house like a man coming home from work. In between, he had been tied to a plank in the hold of a cargo ship with rocks lashed to his wrist and his ankle, listening to the men above him discuss how to make sure a body doesn't float. Nobody has ever been prosecuted for it. Not in Korea. Not in Japan. This is the story of the Kim Dae-jung abduction. Kim Dae-jung Abduction (김대중 납치 사건) · 1973-08-08 · Hotel Grand Palace, Tokyo, Japan; Osaka and Amagasaki; the sea between Japan and Korea; Donggyo-dong, Seoul
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    36 分
  • Episode 61: Kang Ki-hun Suicide Note Forgery Case (강기훈 유서대필 조작 사건)

    Episode 61: Kang Ki-hun Suicide Note Forgery Case (강기훈 유서대필 조작 사건)
    2026/09/13
    On the morning of the 8th of May, 1991, a young activist climbed to the roof of a university building in Seoul, set himself on fire, and jumped. He left two handwritten pages behind on the concrete. Within days, the prosecution announced that the pages were a forgery. That the dead man hadn't written his own last words. That a friend of his had written them for him — and had talked him into dying to make a point. They put that friend in prison for three years. They used a handwriting report from the state forensic laboratory. The man who wrote that report was, at almost exactly that moment, under criminal investigation himself for selling forged handwriting opinions. It took twenty-four years to undo. And thirty-five years later, in May 2026, a Korean court finally wrote the last line of it — and still would not say the word the accused man had waited his whole life to hear. Kang Ki-hun Suicide Note Forgery Case (강기훈 유서대필 조작 사건) · 1991-05-08 · Sogang University, Mapo-gu, Seoul; Seoul District Prosecutors' Office; Myeongdong Cathedral
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    43 分