Episode 67: Baekbaekgyo Cult Killings (백백교 사건)

Dark Korea — Korean True Crime & Mysteries · Sep 18, 2026 · 23m

On the sixteenth of February, 1937, a young man from Haeju walked into a house in Seoul carrying the promise of a fortune. He had spent two years working his way toward this meeting. He was not a believer. His family's fortune had been swallowed by this religion. His sister had been handed over to its leader. And when the man in the white robes finally sat down in front of him, the visitor put down the money, said his real name out loud, and attacked him. The leader escaped into the streets. But the door had been opened. Over the next eight months, colonial police would dig up secret burial…