Episode 49: Iksan Yakchon Intersection Taxi Driver Murder (익산 약촌오거리 택시기사 살인사건)

Dark Korea — Korean True Crime & Mysteries · Sep 1, 2026 · 30m

At two in the morning, a fifteen-year-old boy on a delivery motorbike came around a five-way junction in a small city in North Jeolla Province and found a taxi stopped in the road with the driver slumped inside, bleeding. He did what you are supposed to do. He got help. He told the police what he saw. Three days later, the police arrested him for the murder. He was held in a motel room. He was kept awake. He confessed to a killing he did not commit, and he served every single day of a ten-year sentence — walking out of prison at twenty-five, a convicted murderer, with no idea that three years…