Episode 13: Chijon Family (Jijon-pa) Kidnap-Murders

Dark Korea — Korean True Crime & Mysteries · Jul 25, 2026 · 20m

From the road it looked like somebody's grandmother's house. Pink walls. A mint-green fence. A farmhouse in the rice country of South Jeolla, with a barbecue going out back and pork handed over the wall to the neighbours. Underneath it was a cell with iron bars, and a furnace built to burn human bodies. The men who built it had written down their rules first — four of them, like a company mission statement — and rule one was that they hated the rich. They spent half a year swinging hammers on a construction site to pay for that basement. And in the end, the thing that brought all of it down…