Dark Files: Made to Confess — four cases the confession decided

Dark Korea — Korean True Crime & Mysteries · Sep 7, 2026 · 1h 46m

For a long stretch of South Korean criminal justice, a confession was the end of the argument. Once a man said he had done it, everything he said afterwards was heard as a liar changing his story. This Dark Files compilation puts four of those cases side by side. We start in Hwaseong. In 1989, a young man named Yoon Sung-yeo was questioned over the eighth murder in the country's most notorious serial-killer series and gave a confession he always insisted was coerced. He served a full twenty years. He was cleared only in 2020, after DNA identified Lee Choon-jae — who then admitted the killing…