Episode 19: Jang Ja-yeon Case (장자연 사건)

Dark Korea — Korean True Crime & Mysteries · Jul 31, 2026 · 47m

On the seventh of March, 2009, a twenty-nine-year-old actress died in her home south of Seoul. She had been on national television nine weeks earlier, in one of the biggest dramas of the year. And a week after she died, a document surfaced — handwritten, signed, stamped with her personal seal — in which she described being beaten, threatened, and forced to pour drinks for powerful men she did not want to be in a room with. Twenty people were investigated. Two were convicted. Neither of them was convicted of what she actually described. And then, fifteen years later, in November 2024, Korea's…