Episode 46: Odaeyang Mass Deaths (오대양 집단변사 사건)

Dark Korea — Korean True Crime & Mysteries · Aug 28, 2026 · 20m

On the twenty-eighth of August, 1987, police searched a craft factory in Yongin, south of Seoul. They were looking for a missing businesswoman and around eighty of her employees. They walked the floor, checked the rooms, and left. The building was empty. The next afternoon, a worker noticed something odd about the ceiling above the factory cafeteria. It was sagging. Inside the crawl space above that ceiling, police found thirty-two people. Twenty-eight women and four men. Stacked in two groups. Bound. Strangled. The space had no ventilation, and in the August heat the temperature inside it…