Episode 41: Makgapa Gang Murder (막가파 사건)

Dark Korea — Korean True Crime & Mysteries · Aug 23, 2026 · 22m

In September 1996, a twenty-one-year-old with eight convictions and no job sat down with two other young men and wrote a set of rules. Kill anyone who betrays us. Live flashily, die dramatically. If the police take us, die on the spot. Three weeks later they were standing in a salt-farm yard in Hwaseong, next to a hole they had dug in advance, with a woman in the boot of a stolen car. They had already taken everything she had — nine million won, her credit cards, her Honda. She begged them. And the reason they gave, later, for how they killed her, is the sentence this country has never been…