Dark Files: The Summer of 2023 — Four Weeks of Fear

Dark Korea — Korean True Crime & Mysteries · Oct 12, 2026 · 41m

In the summer of 2023, over less than four weeks, three men attacked strangers in and around Seoul. None of the people they hurt had done anything to draw their attention. They were looking for an apartment, walking home, going to work. This is Dark Files. This is the summer of 2023. It began on July 21, a Friday afternoon near Exit 4 of Sillim Station. In about a hundred seconds, four men were attacked. One of them, a 22-year-old who'd come to the area to find a room he could afford, did not survive. Thirteen days later, on August 3, a car mounted the sidewalk outside a department store at…