Episode 15: Itaewon Hamburger Shop Murder (Itaewon Homicide Case)

Dark Korea — Korean True Crime & Mysteries · Jul 27, 2026 · 30m

A twenty-two-year-old student walked into a fast-food bathroom in Seoul. He never walked out. He was stabbed nine times in the neck and chest by someone he had never met. Two teenagers came out of that room instead, both of them with his blood on their clothes, and each of them said exactly the same thing about the other: he did it, I only watched. For the next nineteen years, that was enough — enough for one of them to be convicted and then acquitted, enough for the other to be sentenced for cleaning up and then let go, and enough for a country to watch an undisputed murder produce no…