Episode 54: Namyoung-ho Ferry Sinking (남영호 침몰 사고)

Dark Korea — Korean True Crime & Mysteries · Sep 5, 2026 · 32m

Just after one in the morning, in the cold water between Jeju and the mainland, a passenger ferry rolled onto her side in about ten minutes and was under the water within two. More than three hundred people died. The ship sent a distress signal — several of them. Not one Korean station answered. Most of the people who got out alive were pulled from the water by Japanese fishing boats. The Korean coast guard arrived roughly fifteen hours after the ship went under. And more than half a century later, nobody can tell you with certainty how many people died that night, because nobody kept a…