Episode 34: Daegu Child Acid Attack (대구 어린이 황산 테러 사건) — the Kim Tae-wan Case and Taewan's Law

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

On a spring morning in 1999, a six-year-old boy left his house in Daegu to walk to his after-school lesson. It was around eleven o'clock. Broad daylight. In an alley near his home, a grown man took hold of him, forced his mouth open, and poured concentrated sulfuric acid over his face. The boy survived forty-nine days. In that time, blind and burned, he told his parents — clearly, and by every account consistently — who had done it. A man he knew. A neighbour. His family recorded three hundred minutes of him saying it. No one was ever charged. And in July 2015, a courtroom clock ran out, and…