Episode 12: Jeong Nam-gyu Serial Murders (Seoul Southwestern Serial Murder Case)

Dark Korea — Korean True Crime & Mysteries · Jul 24, 2026 · 19m

For two years, people in the poorer districts of southwestern Seoul told each other a story about rainy Thursday nights. Don't walk home alone. Not in the rain. Not on a Thursday. It sounded like folklore — the kind of thing that spreads through a neighborhood and means nothing. It wasn't nothing. A man was moving through those alleys with a pipe wrench and a knife, and when police finally caught him, he told them the thing that still makes Korean investigators go quiet: he hadn't done it for money, or for revenge, or for anything he could name as a reason. And his complaint, in custody, was…