Episode 16: Cho Doo-soon Case (Na-young Case)

Dark Korea — Korean True Crime & Mysteries · Jul 28, 2026 · 26m

On a December morning in 2008, an eight-year-old girl in Ansan set off for school and never arrived. What happened to her in the next few minutes left injuries so severe that surgeons were fighting to keep her alive. The man who did it was fifty-six, and Korean papers counted eighteen previous offences on his record, including a rape conviction and a beating that killed a man. And the court gave him twelve years — because he said he'd been drinking. Korea has spent nearly two decades rewriting its laws around that one sentence. And in June of this year, at seventy-three, that same man was…