Episode 55: Incheon Inhyeon-dong Fire Disaster (인천 인현동 화재 참사)

Dark Korea — Korean True Crime & Mysteries · Sep 7, 2026 · 33m

A Saturday evening in Incheon. Midterms were over. School festivals had wrapped up. And in a four-storey building on a narrow commercial street, more than a hundred teenagers were packed into a second-floor beer hall that should never have been open at all. At around seven o'clock, smoke started coming up the stairwell. Fifty-seven people died. Korean Wikipedia says fifty-six. Almost all of them were middle and high school students. Korean accounts put the average age at around seventeen. And then something happened that, in a way, was worse than the fire. The country decided the children had…