The 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.
Episode 87: Sillim Station Stabbing Rampage (신림역 흉기 난동 사건)
It was a Friday afternoon in July, just after two o'clock, on one of the busiest streets in southern Seoul. A young man was standing outside a building near a subway exit. He'd come to the neighborhood to look for a cheap place to rent. He'd never met the man who walked up to him, and he had no reason to be afraid of him. In under two minutes, four strangers had been attacked and one of them was dying. Within days, a whole country was asking whether anyone was safe on a city street in broad daylight.
Sillim Station Stabbing Rampage (신림역 흉기 난동 사건) · 2023-07-21 · Near Exit 4 of Sillim Station, Sillim-dong, Gwanak District, Seoul, South Korea
7 Oct 2026
Episode 86: Lee Ki-young Murders (이기영 살인 사건)
On Christmas morning, 2022, a woman let herself into her boyfriend's apartment in Paju, just north of Seoul. She opened a wardrobe and found a man's body inside. The man was a taxi driver who'd been missing for five days. His family thought he was alive, because his phone kept texting them. And when police started asking questions, the boyfriend told them there was another victim, a woman he'd killed four months earlier, whose body has never been found.
Lee Ki-young Murders (이기영 살인 사건) · 2022 · Paju, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea (taxi collision in Goyang)
6 Oct 2026
Episode 85: Sindang Station Murder (신당역 스토킹 살인 사건)
It was a Wednesday night in September 2022, in one of Seoul's busiest subway stations. A young station worker was walking her rounds, checking the women's restroom, the way she did on every shift. A man in a cap had been waiting near that restroom for more than an hour. He knew her. He'd stalked her for almost three years. And the next day, a court was supposed to sentence him for it. This is the Sindang Station murder, and it's the story of a woman who did everything the system asked of her, and still wasn't safe.
Sindang Station Murder (신당역 스토킹 살인 사건) · 2022-09-14 · Women's restroom, Sindang Station (Line 2), Jung-gu, Seoul
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