Episode 56: Daegu Sangin-dong Gas Explosion (대구 상인동 가스 폭발 사고)

Dark Korea — Korean True Crime & Mysteries · Sep 8, 2026 · 44m

It was a Friday morning in April. Seven fifty-two. The kind of hour when a Korean city is at its most ordinary — buses idling, shop shutters going up, and thousands of children walking to school with their bags on their backs. Under the main road at Sangin intersection, in the western district of Daegu, there was a hole. A big one. The city was building its first subway line, and the road above the tunnel was held up by steel decking — temporary plates laid across the excavation so traffic could keep running while the work went on underneath. That morning, in the tunnel under those plates, a…