Episode 26: Sinan Salt Farm Slavery Case (2014년 신안군 염전 섬노예 사건)

Dark Korea — Korean True Crime & Mysteries · Aug 10, 2026 · 44m

In January 2014, a man who could barely see walked into a barbershop on a small Korean island, and then, on the way back, he did the only free thing he had done in eighteen months. He posted a letter to his mother in Seoul, telling her where he was, what was being done to him, and one very specific instruction: when you come for me, come disguised as salt buyers. Fifteen days later, plainclothes officers from a police station four hundred kilometres away walked onto that salt farm pretending to be merchants, and took two men off the island. One of them had been there for five years and two…