Episode 47: Park Jong-chul Torture Death (박종철 고문치사 사건)

Dark Korea — Korean True Crime & Mysteries · Aug 29, 2026 · 23m

On the fourteenth of January, 1987, a doctor was called into a building in Seoul that had no visible front door. A detective spoke into a radio, and a section of the wall slid sideways. Inside, on the fifth floor, in a room numbered 509, there was a bathtub. On a low wooden platform beside it lay a twenty-one-year-old university student, soaked through, his hair wet as if he had just washed it. The floor was covered in water. The doctor checked his pupils. No breathing. No pulse. He performed chest compressions for about thirty minutes anyway, and then he stopped. Two days later, the head of…