Episode 6: Yoo Byung-eun and the Sewol Ferry

Dark Korea — Korean True Crime & Mysteries · Jul 15, 2026 · 13m

On the morning of April 16th, 2014, a ferry called the Sewol rolled onto its side off the southwest coast of South Korea. Three hundred and four people died. Around two hundred and fifty of them were teenagers on a school trip, and most of them died because a voice on the loudspeaker told them to stay exactly where they were. In the weeks that followed, a nation looking for someone to blame was pointed at one man — a 73-year-old church founder, businessman, and art photographer who simply vanished. What happened next was one of the strangest manhunts in Korean history: the biggest reward the…