Episode 14: Uiryeong Massacre (Woo Bum-kon Incident)

Dark Korea — Korean True Crime & Mysteries · Jul 26, 2026 · 22m

It started with a fly. A police officer was asleep on a spring afternoon in a farming village in the south of Korea, and the woman he lived with saw a fly on his chest and swatted it. He woke up. They argued. And that night he walked into the armoury of his own police station, took two carbines, a bag of ammunition and a handful of hand grenades, and spent the next eight hours going door to door through four villages. Fifty-six people died where they fell. Six more died of their wounds. For almost thirty years it stood as the deadliest killing spree ever carried out by one person anywhere in…