Episode 98: Jecheon Sports Center Fire (제천 스포츠센터 화재)

Dark Korea — Korean True Crime & Mysteries · Oct 19, 2026 · 14m

On a cold Thursday afternoon four days before Christmas, women in a small city in central Korea were doing something completely ordinary. They were at the sauna. Some came with their mothers, some with their daughters. Within an hour, twenty people on that floor were dead. And outside, a few meters away behind a wall of glass, their families were on the phone with them, begging firefighters to break the windows. Jecheon Sports Center Fire (제천 스포츠센터 화재) · 2017-12-21 · Haso-dong, Jecheon, North Chungcheong Province, South Korea