Episode 83: Seohyeon Station Stabbing Rampage (서현역 흉기 난동 사건)

Dark Korea — Korean True Crime & Mysteries · Oct 4, 2026 · 12m

It was a Thursday evening in August 2023, just before six. Commuters were heading home, and shoppers were drifting into a department store connected to a busy subway station south of Seoul. Then a small car jumped the curb and drove straight down the sidewalk. The driver got out, walked into the store, and started attacking strangers with a knife. In less than ten minutes, fourteen people were hurt, and two women would never come home. This is the Seohyeon Station rampage, and the question it left Korea with is still hard to answer: what do you do when the danger was visible, and nobody could…