Episode 23: Korean Air Flight 858 Bombing (대한항공 858편 폭파 사건)

Dark Korea — Korean True Crime & Mysteries · Aug 10, 2026 · 35m

In November 1987, a Japanese father and daughter boarded a Korean Air jet in Baghdad. He was seventy. She was twenty-five. They were not Japanese, they were not related, and one of them left a portable radio in the overhead bin above seat 7B before they both got off at the next stop. Nine hours later, somewhere over the Andaman Sea, one hundred and fifteen people were gone — and not one of them has ever been found. What happened next is the part that still splits Korea: the surviving bomber was flown into Seoul on the fifteenth of December — the day before a presidential election — and the…