Episode 7: Daegu Subway Fire

Dark Korea — Korean True Crime & Mysteries · Jul 16, 2026 · 10m

On the morning of February 18th, 2003, a man carried a container of gasoline onto a crowded subway train in Daegu, South Korea. He wasn't angry at anyone on board. He didn't know a single one of them. He later told police he only wanted to die — and he didn't want to die alone. He set the fire, and then he walked away. What happened next killed 192 people. And here's the part that still haunts this case: most of them didn't die on his train. They died on the second train — the one that pulled in afterward, stopped in the smoke, and had its power cut with the passengers still inside. Daegu…