Episode 45: Wau Citizen Apartment Collapse (와우아파트 붕괴 참사)

Dark Korea — Korean True Crime & Mysteries · Aug 27, 2026 · 24m

Nineteen days before the building fell, the people living inside it told the city it was cracking. They had found splits in the concrete columns holding up two of the blocks — number fourteen and number fifteen. A district official came, looked, and made a decision. Block fourteen: evacuate. Block fifteen: patch it. On the morning of the eighth of April, 1970, at about half past six, block fifteen came down. Not sideways into open air — downhill, onto the shacks below, where more people were sleeping. The building was four months old. It had been finished in six. And when investigators pulled…