The Dark Side of Seoul Podcast

https://www.missingchild.or.kr/

National Center for Missing Children

The Frog Boys
Lee Hye-jin, 10, and her friend Woo Ye-seul, 8
- Dec 25, 2007, Anyang
- Near Anyang Arts Center (CCTV 4:10 p.m.)
- 77 days later
  - Found Lee’s dismembered body on a mountain near Suwon
- Police investigation
  - Rental car records in Anyang on the day of disappearance
  - Found blood traces in the trunk of a car
- Suspect Confesses to Murder of Two Missing Girls
  - Traced to 39-year-old man, Jeong Seong-hyeon
  - Lived alone in the same neighborhood
  - Went on the run
  - Was arrested at his mother’s house in Boryeong, South Chungcheong
  - Confession
    - Tried to say they died in a car accident
    - Drank 2 bottles of soju and “inhaled bond” around 4 p.m. Dec 25
    - Left home to buy cigarettes
    - Saw the two girls, kidnapped them, assaulted them for an hour
    - After he sobered up, choked them to death and chopped up the corpses in his bathroom
    - Loaded them into his trunk and dumped them near Homaesil, Suwon and in Gunja St

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Credits

Produced by Joe McPherson and Shawn Morrissey

Music by Soraksan

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Welcome to Bart’s Dong

The Dark Side of Seoul Podcast

10/09/24 • 52 min

Welcome to My Dong (YouTube)

Guest: Bart van Genugten

iGoBart (YouTube)

iGoBart (Instagram)

Bart van Genugten of YouTube’s “Welcome to My Dong” discusses the genesis of his acclaimed series and how it’s become a valuable time capsule of the changing city.

My Map of Seoul Was Vandalized: What Really Happened

Videos with both Joe and Shawn

Why Foreigners are Fascinated by Korea's Abandoned Neighborhoods

Videos with Joe

A Korean Market that even Gangsters keep their hands off

I ate Korean Cow Brains

How Itaewon Became a ‘Place To Avoid’

Videos with Shawn

Why Folklorist Shawn Fell in Love with Korea's Folklore

I went to the Capital of Korean Shamanism
The Key to Korea's Prosperity is Hidden in Seoul's Mountain

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Top Tier Patrons
Angel Earl
Joel Bonomini
Devon Hiphner
Gabi Palomino
Steve Marsh
Eva Sikora
Ron Chang
Mitchy Brewer
Mackenzie Moore
Minseok Lee
Hunter Winter
Cecilia Löfgren Dumas
Ashley Wright
George Irion
Kwang Ja Moon
Edward Bradford

Starting at just $5/month, get a lot of great extra content by going to our Patreon

Korea's #1 ghost and dark history walking tour. Book at DarkSideOfSeoul.com

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Credits

Produced by Joe McPherson and Shawn Morrissey

Music by Soraksan

Top tier Patrons

The Dark Side of iGoBart

The Dark Side of Seoul Podcast

10/16/24 • 47 min

Welcome to My Dong (YouTube)

Guest: Bart van Genugten

iGoBart (YouTube)

iGoBart (Instagram)

Bart van Genugten of YouTube’s “Welcome to My Dong” discusses some of the darker experiences he’s had creating his praised series about exploring every neighborhood of Seoul.

My Map of Seoul Was Vandalized: What Really Happened

Videos with both Joe and Shawn

Why Foreigners are Fascinated by Korea's Abandoned Neighborhoods

Videos with Joe

A Korean Market that even Gangsters keep their hands off

I ate Korean Cow Brains

How Itaewon Became a ‘Place To Avoid’

Videos with Shawn

Why Folklorist Shawn Fell in Love with Korea's Folklore

I went to the Capital of Korean Shamanism
The Key to Korea's Prosperity is Hidden in Seoul's Mountain

Media recommendations

Starting at just $5/month, get a lot of great extra content by going to our Patreon

Korea's #1 ghost and dark history walking tour. Book at DarkSideOfSeoul.com

Get your comic at DarkSideOfSeoul.com

Join our Patreon to get more stuff

Book a tour of The Dark Side of Seoul Ghost Walk at https://darksideofseoul.com

Pitch your idea here. https://www.darksideofseoul.com/expats-of-the-wild-east/

Credits

Produced by Joe McPherson and Shawn Morrissey

Music by Soraksan

Top tier Patrons

It’s Our Birthday & We’ll Die if We Want To

The Dark Side of Seoul Podcast

03/24/21 • 92 min

The podcast is one year old! We break down the year and discuss Korean first birthday traditions, folklore, and spirits. We also regale mysterious births in Korean history.

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Listener Mail! Send us a message (Instagram, Facebook, email) and we might read it on air.

Music by Soraksan

Top tier Patrons

Angel Earl

Joel Bonomini

Jamie Staley

Shaaron Cullen

Devon Hiphner
Minseok Lee

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Credits

Produced by Joe McPherson and Shawn Morrissey

Music by Soraksan

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True Crime: Cho Doo-soon & Sex Crime Law Failures

The Dark Side of Seoul Podcast

09/30/20 • 68 min

Korea’s most notorious criminal is set to be released in late 2020. Only recently has the “I was drunk” defense been scrapped as an accepted excuse for sex crimes. We explore the problematic legal and cultural barriers to effective sex crime prevention in Korea.

**WARNING** We do not suggest the episode for people recovering from sexual abuse.

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Music by Soraksan

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Angel Earl

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Book a tour of The Dark Side of Seoul Ghost Walk at https://darksideofseoul.com

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Credits

Produced by Joe McPherson and Shawn Morrissey

Music by Soraksan

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Grave Matters

The Dark Side of Seoul Podcast

09/23/20 • 51 min

Korea is one giant graveyard. Serious. There are graves everywhere, and they are well maintained. For our Chuseok season episode, we explore one of the central symbols of that season, the ancestral grave.

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Music by Soraksan

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Credits

Produced by Joe McPherson and Shawn Morrissey

Music by Soraksan

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The June Struggle: How to Overthrow a Dictator

The Dark Side of Seoul Podcast

06/17/20 • 50 min

It's sad how change awaits tragedy. South Korea had a serious police brutality problem. It took the police secretly killing a student to motivate activist groups. It then took the police publicly killing a student to motivate the whole country.
This is that story.
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Angel Earl

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Credits

Produced by Joe McPherson and Shawn Morrissey

Music by Soraksan

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Korean Buddhism part 2, Revenge of the Confucians and Return of the Buddhists

The Dark Side of Seoul Podcast

05/27/20 • 44 min

http://www.san-shin.org/David.html

Guest: Prof. David Mason

Take a tour with David through The Royal Asiatic Society, SIWA, or Tours By Locals

The mysterious founding of what became Seoul and how Wangsimni got its name
- Master Muhak’s prediction about the length of the Joseon Dynasty
Buddhism’s fall
What the suppression of Buddhism meant for Joseon and the future of Korea
A folktale about Master Muhak
The elimination of Buddhist nuns
How Buddhism recovered, the opening of Jogyesa in downtown Seoul

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Credits

Produced by Joe McPherson and Shawn Morrissey

Music by Soraksan

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What is The Dark Side of Seoul?

The Dark Side of Seoul Podcast

03/26/20 • 38 min

Greetings!
Shawn and Joe give the story of the founding of The Dark Side of Seoul Ghost Walk. We tell the story of the tour's growing pains and why we find Seoul to be one of the most haunted cities in the world.
Expect a lot of true crime, dark history, ghost stories, folktales, and featured guests in episodes to come. Please subscribe.
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Credits

Produced by Joe McPherson and Shawn Morrissey

Music by Soraksan

Top tier Patrons

Monsters!

The Dark Side of Seoul Podcast

10/28/20 • 79 min

How many Korean monsters do you know? Which ones enjoy riding humans? Which monster resides in a North Korean lake and had a movie made about it?

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Cheonji Lake Monsters? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFElPwUVUHs

MBC Jangsan-beom report: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dx7gYwX0DLM

Reported sightings of Jangsan-beom (map)

Movie Recommendations

Bulgasari - 1985 North Korean monster movie, essentially a kaiju film (called goe-su in Korean)
- Director Shin Sang-ok was kidnapped by North Korea (ordered by Kim Jong-il) and forced to make several films in the North, including Bulgasari
The Host - Korean title is ‘goe-mul’
Universal Monster Movies - all the golden age films
- Namely the first three Frankenstein films: Frankenstein, Bride of Frankenstein, Son of Frankenstein - cinema’s first great trilogy
Hammer Studios - all their monster films
- Namely Curse of Frankenstein, Dracula, and Curse of the Werewolf
The Mist
Tremors
Pan’s Labyrinth
An American Werewolf in London
King Kong (original)
Godzilla (original) - the King of the Monsters!

Music by Soraksan

Top tier Patrons

Angel Earl

Joel Bonomini

Jamie Staley

Shaaron Cullen

Join our Patreon to get more stuff

Book a tour of The Dark Side of Seoul Ghost Walk at https://darksideofseoul.com

Pitch your idea here. https://www.darksideofseoul.com/expats-of-the-wild-east/

Credits

Produced by Joe McPherson and Shawn Morrissey

Music by Soraksan

Top tier Patrons