Korean True Crime
Korean True Crime covers all of the horrors that South Korea has to offer, including serial killers, murders, unsolved mysteries, and more!
Episodes
On May 25, 2019, Kang Sungjin (pseudonym) drove to meet his ex-wife for a custody exchange but never returned. In the days that followed, surveillance footage and purchase records began to show the demented actions of his ex-wife. As investigators uncovered Koh Yoo-jeong's online searches, purchases, and travel records, they would discover a woman who killed merely for convenience. What began as a custody dispute ended in the m...
On July 9th, 2007, a 25-year-old currency exchange worker in Anyang was found murdered beneath her boss's desk. For five years, the case went cold while a group of men fled across borders to build a "murder enterprise" in the Philippines. They didn't just kidnap for ransom; staged scandals to extort Korean tourists into a silence that lasted nearly a decade. It would take a father’s tragic letter and a cellmate...
In 2006, Park Nam-hee vanished without a trace. For two years, her government disability benefits were quietly withdrawn each month. No one reported her missing. It wasn’t until 2011 that her dismembered remains were discovered inside a handcart abandoned less than a block from her home. The suspect was a man praised as a volunteer "king", a charitable caretaker, and a reformed convict. But the truth may never be known.
In November 2019, a couple traveled to Jeju Island to celebrate their 300 day anniversary. That evening, a late-night drive ended in a crash that would lead to Ms. Jo's death nine months later. What the police believed was a drunk driving accident turned into a homicide investigation.
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In 2022, the bodies of eight-year-old Yuna Jo and six-year-old Minu Jo were discovered inside suitcases purchased from an abandoned storage unit in South Auckland. The children had been dead for four years, yet no missing persons report had been filed. The police quickly discovered the perpetrator: their mother.
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An adult home-video VHS tape would begin showing up in markets across the nation in 1997. Decades later, it would still be sought after online. The Red Scarf Video would become a glaring example of the flourishing market for CSAM. But how would people react once the underbelly was exposed?
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Cho Seong-ho found himself penniless and drowning in debt, forced to live with an older man who propositioned him in exchange for rent money. When he tried to collect what was owed, the man began to belittle him until Seong-ho snapped.
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In February 2020, 16-month-old Jeong-in was adopted by a seemingly perfect, pious couple, only to arrive dead to an emergency department 271 days later. The system meant to protect children failed to protect Jeong-in three separate times as child abuse reports were filed and dismissed.Find our merch here: https://koreantruecrime-shop.fourthwall.com
In 1978, South Korea's most famous actress, Choi Eun-hee, and her ex-husband, legendary director Shin Sang-ok, were kidnapped on the orders of a movie-obsessed Kim Jong-il. For eight years, they were held captive and forced to revitalize North Korea's film industry. While keeping up the appearances of cooperating, the couple secretly recorded Kim's confession to the kidnapping and planned their escape.Find our merch her...
Lee Eun-seok sat in his apartment uncertain if he would get away with what he had done. He asked himself. “Am I a servant of Satan, or am I a piece of trash that should just end his own life"? When the public discovered he had murdered his parents, they decidedly labeled him a monster, but after his diaries were found the answer became uncertain. Can a crime so heinous and unforgiveable, be understandable?
In 2007, a quiet coffee shop became the scene of a horrific murder early one morning. The police had no evidence and a witness so traumatized she couldn't remember anything. The only lead came from a discarded sweater containing a bottle of eye drops in the pocket. The hunt for the culprit revealed that they were chasing a man who the justice system had already met, and set free.
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In 1997, two American teenagers, Arthur Patterson and Edward Lee, followed a stranger into a Burger King bathroom. Minutes later they emerged covered in blood. When the police arrested them, they each pointed a finger at the other. Faced with two wildly different stories, the justice system had to determine which one was the killer. It would take nearly twenty years due to finally uncover the truth.
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In 2008, a fatal stabbing at a Seoul bus terminal should have been an open-and-shut case, as the victim identified her killer with her dying breath. Instead, investigators were led on a wild chase through the city's subway lines before their suspect vanished completely. For seventeen years, Hwang Ju-yeon has remained Korea's most-wanted fugitive.
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When actress Jang Ja-yeon was found dead in 2009, police called it a simple suicide, but a secret document she left behind told a different story of systemic abuse. This document was not a suicide note, but a list of the powerful men she claimed had forced her into sexual servitude. Her story was almost lost as the papers were burned, but then an anonymous source sent them to a major news station. The letters named leaders in media...
On social media, she presented a life of luxury travel and designer bags. In reality, she was a woman drowning in debt, consumed by likes and follows. When that anger finally consumed her, it resulted in a 41 stab wounds and the purchase of a chainsaw.
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They spent 21 years in prison for a murder they didn’t commit. Jang Dong-ik and Choi In-cheol insisted on their innocence, but believing them meant admitting the police got it wrong. With the real killer never caught and no leads left behind, will the Nakdong River Murder remain forever unsolved?
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Nine victims in ten months. Jeong Doo-young's only motivation? Greed. He hunted the wealthy on quiet rainy Thursdays, leaving blood-soaked homes across Korea's southern coast.Find our merch here: https://koreantruecrime-shop.fourthwall.com
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Graves filled with the remains of entire families began turning up across the remote northern mountains. In one village, rumors spread of a cave on Macha Mountain said to be rich with gold but locals soon called it the “Cave of Death,” because those who entered were never seen again. The cave was just one of many hiding places used by the doomsday cult known as the Pure White Church. Beneath promises of salvation, they buried the t...
On New Year’s Day, 11-year-old Lee Siwoo wrote down his resolutions for 2023. He wanted to pass his exams, spend time with his family, and disappear quickly. A month later, paramedics found him unresponsive on the floor of his home. When they cut open his pajama shirt to begin CPR, they saw the bruises covering his emaciated body. While his mother mourned at his funeral, his father and stepmother sat in a police station, claiming S...
In 2007, Kim Myeong-ho, a mathematics professor, waited in the stairwell of Judge Park Hong-woo's apartment building. As the judge pressed the elevator button, Kim Myeong-ho raised a crossbow and shot the high court judge. What led to this? A mistake on the mathematics portion of the national college scholastic test. The trial left Korea divided over who the true villain was.
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