Episode 105: Ahyeon-dong Gas Explosion (아현동 가스 폭발 사고)

Dark Korea — Korean True Crime & Mysteries · Oct 26, 2026 · 15m

All morning, the shopkeepers on one Seoul street could smell gas. A worker told one of them not to worry. They were just going to let some of it out. Then, a few minutes before three in the afternoon, the ground under a small neighborhood park blew apart, and a column of fire rose higher than the buildings around it. Twelve people died. And for roughly forty minutes before it happened, an alarm miles away had been signaling that gas was escaping. Ahyeon-dong Gas Explosion (아현동 가스 폭발 사고) · 1994-12-07 · Korea Gas Corporation Ahyeon valve station (아현 밸브기지), beneath a roadside park in…