Episode 61: Kang Ki-hun Suicide Note Forgery Case (강기훈 유서대필 조작 사건)

Dark Korea — Korean True Crime & Mysteries · Sep 13, 2026 · 42m

On the morning of the 8th of May, 1991, a young activist climbed to the roof of a university building in Seoul, set himself on fire, and jumped. He left two handwritten pages behind on the concrete. Within days, the prosecution announced that the pages were a forgery. That the dead man hadn't written his own last words. That a friend of his had written them for him — and had talked him into dying to make a point. They put that friend in prison for three years. They used a handwriting report from the state forensic laboratory. The man who wrote that report was, at almost exactly that moment…