Episode 22: Seongsu Bridge Collapse (성수대교 붕괴 사고)

Dark Korea — Korean True Crime & Mysteries · Aug 4, 2026 · 30m

At thirty-eight minutes past seven on a Friday morning in October 1994, a forty-eight-metre section of a Seoul bridge stopped existing. There was no warning. No slow sag, no groan of failing metal, no time for anyone to brake. The deck between two piers simply dropped into the Han River and took six vehicles down with it — including a city bus carrying people to work and to school. Thirty-two people died. Nine of them were schoolgirls. And when the divers brought the steel back up, investigators found something worse than an accident: a bridge that had been quietly failing for fifteen years…