Episode 31: Lee Young-hak "Molar Dad" Case (어금니 아빠 사건)

Dark Korea — Korean True Crime & Mysteries · Aug 13, 2026 · 29m

For more than ten years, South Korea knew him as the best father in the country. A man with a rare disease that had eaten away his jaw, who had lost every tooth but one molar, raising a daughter born with the same illness. Television specials. A published book. More than a billion won in donations from strangers who wanted to help. And then, in October 2017, police pulled a travel bag out of a wooded slope in Gangwon Province, and the country learned what the money had actually paid for. Inside that bag was a fourteen-year-old girl — his own daughter's school friend. And the person who had…