Episode 30: Jinju Apartment Arson-Stabbing (진주 아파트 방화·흉기난동 살인 사건)

Dark Korea — Korean True Crime & Mysteries · Aug 12, 2026 · 23m

At twenty-five past four in the morning, in a public housing block in the city of Jinju, a forty-one-year-old man poured petrol around his own fourth-floor flat and set it alight. Then he walked down to the stairwell, stood where the smoke would push everyone toward him, and waited with two knives. Five people died on those stairs — a twelve-year-old girl, a teenage girl, two women, and a man in his seventies. Almost every one of them was smaller, older, or slower than the man holding the knife. And the hardest fact in this whole case is not what he did that morning. It's that for the seven…