Episode 18: Gangnam Station Murder (2016 Seocho-dong Public Toilet Murder)

Dark Korea — Korean True Crime & Mysteries · Jul 30, 2026 · 34m

A little after midnight on the seventeenth of May, 2016, a man walked into a shared toilet in a small building near Gangnam Station in Seoul and locked himself in a stall. He stayed there for roughly half an hour. In that time, six men came in, used the toilet, and left. He didn't touch any of them. Then a twenty-three-year-old woman opened the door, and he killed her. He had never met her. He didn't know her name. When police asked him why, he gave an answer that would split an entire country down the middle for the next ten years: women have always looked down on me. And here is the thing…