In January 1987, the South Korean Embassy in Singapore received a call from the US Embassy about a suspicious asylum seeker, a 28-year-old Korean named Yun Tae-shik. Yun claimed he had narrowly…
In the early summer of 2019, a husband joined his wife and several of her friends on a trip to a valley in Gapyeong, South Korea. What should have been a carefree getaway turned deadly when the…
An abandoned quarry.A man, nailed to a cross.Around Easter 2011, a grotesque death shocked South Korea.Could this be the act of an eccentric cult?As investigators dug deeper into the haunting case,…
The #MeToo movement pulled back the curtain on toxic work cultures in the entertainment industry — exposing how powerful men exploited women behind the scenes. In the United States, the fall of Harvey…
Why do some killers become household names, while others fade into obscurity — despite committing crimes just as horrifying? In this episode, we uncover the chilling story of Kim Dae-doo, South…
On a chilly Wednesday evening in November 2003, 14-year-old Eom Hyun-ah set out on a familiar shortcut home through the quiet outskirts of a village in South Korea. It was a dark, rarely traveled…
In the early 1990s, five young boys set out on a forest excursion and never came home. Their sudden disappearance sent shockwaves across South Korea. Their faces became impossible to avoid, plastered…
Have you ever imagined what it would be like to glimpse someone’s final moments, before life slips away? It’s a disturbing thought, but death makes headlines.In 1982, a South Korean photographer was…
"His Excellency doesn't allow his second-in-command to live."In the 2020 movie "The Man Standing Next," the character Park Yong-gak, based on former Korean Central Intelligence Agency chief Kim…
Human fascination with mysticism and the afterlife has endured for millennia -- from protective spells in ancient Mesopotamia to prohibitions against magic in the Hebrew Bible, from necromancy in…
