Episode 9: Hwaseong Elementary School Girl Case (Kim Hyeon-jeong)

Dark Korea — Korean True Crime & Mysteries · Jul 18, 2026 · 10m

An eight-year-old girl walked home from school on a summer afternoon in 1989, and she never made it through the door. For thirty years, her family called it a disappearance. They searched the whole country for her. They lit candles hoping she was still alive somewhere. But the police already knew she wasn't. Five months after she vanished, officers found her school bag, her shoes, even a small piece of bone — and instead of telling her parents, they buried the truth and closed the file. This is the story of how the state itself became the second offender in a little girl's murder. Hwaseong…