Episode 35: Sealand Youth Training Center Fire (씨랜드 청소년수련원 화재 참사)

Dark Korea — Korean True Crime & Mysteries · Aug 17, 2026 · 12m

On the last night of June 1999, more than five hundred people were asleep inside a summer camp on Korea's west coast. Most of them were children. Many were five, six, seven years old — kindergarteners on the first overnight trip of their lives. The building they slept in looked like a proper three-story lodge. It wasn't. It was a stack of shipping containers dressed up in thin steel panels and styrofoam. Shortly after midnight, a fire started in a third-floor room full of sleeping children. By morning, twenty-three people were dead — nineteen of them kindergarteners. And when investigators…