Episode 68: Yeouido Plaza Car Rampage (여의도광장 차량질주 사건)

Dark Korea — Korean True Crime & Mysteries · Sep 19, 2026 · 26m

On a Saturday afternoon in October 1991, the biggest open space in Seoul was doing what it did every weekend. Families. Rental bicycles. Roller skates. A flat sheet of asphalt the size of a small airfield, right in the middle of the capital, packed with children. Then a small car came onto the plaza and did not slow down. It took less than a minute. Two children were dead. Twenty-one people were hurt. And the twenty-one-year-old behind the wheel — a man who had never held a driving licence, whose eyesight was so bad he had been fired from every job he ever had — told police afterwards that he…