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The Dark Side of Seoul Podcast — 312 episodes

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Korea's Flashing Problem

2

The Composer Korea Tried to Execute

3

Fun Size: Why Teachers in Korea Can’t Take Sick Days

4

The Korean Cherry Blossom Controversy

5

Fun Size: The Gwanghwamun Sign Controversy

6

The Korea “Would You Rather” Episode You Didn’t Know You Needed

7

Why You Can't Bury Your Pet in Korea

8

SEAblings vs. K-netz: When K-pop Fandom Turned Into a Regional Reckoning

9

Reading the Dead: What Korean Graves Tell Us

10

Who Should Still Be Driving in Korea?

11

Where Have All the Soju Tents Gone? Part 2

12

Where Have All the Soju Tents Gone? Part 1

13

Christmas Nightmares 2: Holiday Crimes

14

Christmas Nightmares 1: Darkest Holiday Stories

15

K-Hacked: How Coupang Exposed Korea’s Cybersecurity Mess

16

Weird Tours

17

Short: The Expat Quest for Thanksgiving

18

The Secret Military Club That Hijacked Korea

19

Moving Graves

20

The West Comes Knocking | The Fall of Joseon, part 18 (1791-1801)

21

Haunted Barracks: Korea’s Military Ghost Stories

22

Shawn Wrote a Spooky Book

23

Why Korean City Slogans Sound So Weird (and Why We Love Them Anyway)

24

From Madness to Reform | The Fall of Joseon, part 17

25

Kidnapped!

26

Cursed Landmarks

27

Cruel Summer 2: Crueler Summerer

28

Cruel Summer

29

K-Pop Demon Hunters: Folklore & Satire

30

The Wailing Woman and the Red-Hatted Ghosts of Korea | Spooky Chills Summer

31

Ghost Stories That Grew Up With the City | Spooky Chills Summer

32

11 Haunted Haunts of Seoul | Spooky Chills Summer

33

Unsettling Urban Legends | Spooky Chills Summer

34

Echoes in the Dark: Our Creepiest Stories | Spooky Chills Summer

35

Ghost Stories on Jayuro Highway | Spooky Chills Summer

36

Spooky Summer Ghost Stories 2025

37

Prince Sado’s Madness and Murder | The Fall of Joseon, part 16 (1735-1762)

38

POSCO Unforged: Corruption, Accidents, & Cover-Ups

39

North Korea 75 Years Later with Jacco Zwetsloot (NK News Podcast)

40

Unwelcome Guests: The 1871 US Incident in Korea

41

Yeongjo’s Quest for Balance: Ending Factional Fury | Fall of Joseon 15

42

Korea and Canada Share Folklore?

43

Unexplained Deaths of Expats in Korea

44

When Love Meets Politics | Fall of Joseon, part 14

45

Tragic Ghosts

46

Ask Us. We Dare You!

47

Ghost Book Sneak Peek

48

Gwangjang Market: Secrets, Snacks, and the Shady Side of Seoul’s Most Famous Market

49

Boondoggles: Korean Grand Prix

50

Strange Things Found on Naver Maps

51

Joseon Korea vs. Qing China: A Kingdom Caught Between Loyalty and Survival | Fall of Joseon, part 13

52

Korean Tourism 50 Years Ago

53

Tapgol Park

54

Friendly Fire

55

Korean Funerals

56

School Murder

57

Korean Conspiracy Theories

58

King Injo: Factionalism, Rebellion, Factionalism | Fall of Joseon, part 12

59

Korean Ghosts of the 15th Century: Poltergeists, Spirits, and Vengeance

60

Murder! Or Self Defense?

61

Squid Game 2: Korean Culture Elements You Missed, Part 2

62

Squid Game 2: Korean Culture Elements You Missed, Part 1

63

Did She Really Murder Her Father?

64

Ask Us Anything: From Hiking to Han Kang, We’re Answering It All

65

The Courageous Rooster: Lessons from Korean Folklore and Culture

66

Mountains: Gods, Ghosts, & Killers (Re-release)

67

Yoon's Martial Law: History Repeats Itself in South Korea?

68

Korean Hospitals: Tales of Good Healthcare, Bad Treatment

69

Korea's Forced Eviction Industry

70

K-Wordiness

71

Sinkholes!

72

Monkey Business

73

Korean Ghost Tales

74

The Dark Side of iGoBart

75

Welcome to Bart’s Dong

76

Ask Us Anything... Again

77

What Happened in Korea During Shogun | Fall of Joseon, part 10

78

Arrested Redevelopment

79

Deepfake Porn: Korea’s New Crisis

80

True Crime Summer 2024

81

True Crime Summer: Hidden Sex Cams

82

True Crime Summer: Serial Killer Yoo Young-Chul - Aftermath

83

True Crime Summer: Caught a Predator

84

True Crime Summer: The Cyanide Killer

85

True Crime Summer: The Death That Changed Seoul’s Foreign Community

86

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

87

True Crime Summer: Prison Break 1988

88

True Crime Summer: The Jijon Crime Family

89

True Crime Summer: Prince Sado, The Royal Serial Killer

90

Women Ghosts of Jeju Island

91

A Flock of Sheep

92

Stabbings

93

The Lost Urban Exploration Video

94

None Shall Pass! Segregation in South Korea

95

Haunted Tourist Sites in Korea

96

Imjin War, part 3 | Fall of Joseon, part 9

97

Fugly Koreans, Fugly Americans

98

Horses

99

Korean Ghosts Love Pizza: Modernizing Rites for the Dead

100

The Sewol: 10 Years Later

101

When K-Animals Attack! (And Escape)

102

Imjin War, part 2 | Fall of Joseon, part 8

103

Dying Alone

104

Imjin War, part 1 | Fall of Joseon, part 7

105

Why Did It Hafta Be Snakes

106

Scams: Tourists & Expats

107

Rise of the Scholar Elite (1560s-1580s) | Fall of Joseon, part 6

108

Ask Us (Almost) Anything

109

Dragons

110

Immigration Horrors!

111

Seollal: Korea's Lunar New Year (re-run)

112

K-Horror: Best of 2023

113

Han River Mysteries

114

Old Gods, Scorched Bones, & the Frozen Dead: The Folklore of the 12th Lunar Month

115

Noisy Neighbors

116

Seoul Tower

117

Human Sacrifice

118

Long Nights, New Calendars, & Wicked Children: The Folklore of the Eleventh Lunar Month

119

Nakwon Arcade: Original Center of Korea’s Music Industry

120

Dying With Dignity

121

Words, Words, Words

122

Happy Gods, Angry Ghosts, & Spirit Jars: The Folklore of the Tenth Lunar Month

123

Desecrated Graves

124

Yo, Don’t Step on the Yo! | “Ugly Koreans, Ugly Americans” part 4

125

Korean Ghost Stories & Urban Legends

126

Lost Souls & Blood Red Leaves: The Folklore of the Ninth Lunar Month

127

Limp Handshakes | “Ugly Koreans, Ugly Americans” part 3

128

Purging the Literati (1545-1565) | Fall of Joseon, part 5

129

Farewell to the Dead

130

Moonlit Dances & Big-headed Star Men: The Folklore of the Eighth Lunar Month

131

Break on Through to the Northern Side

132

Battle of the In-laws: The Rise and Fall of Kim Anro (Fall of Joseon, part 4)

133

Suffering Ghosts & Star-crossed Lovers: The Folklore of the Seventh Lunar Month

134

Saemangeum: A disaster 52 years in the making

135

Uglier Koreans, Uglier Americans

136

Knives Out: Korea’s Third Generation of Gangsters

137

Use Your Words

138

Melting Goats and Drunken Poets: The Folklore of the Sixth Lunar Month

139

The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of the Myeongdong Gangsters

140

Sex, Pries, and Videotape

141

Rains, Heat, and Poison: The Folklore of the Fifth Lunar Month

142

Access Denied

143

"Ugly Koreans, Ugly Americans"

144

More Weird News

145

Funeral Rites

146

More Expats of the Wild East

147

Nami Island and Tourist Trap River

148

Lanterns, Buddha, & Balsam: The Folklore of the Fourth Lunar Month

149

K-Ghost Hunters

150

South Korea's 1980 Concentration Camp

151

K-Poverty

152

The Political Mobs of Syngman Rhee (1945-1960)

153

The Savage Age of Gangsters (1930s-1945)

154

When Gods and Ghosts Rest: Lunar Leap Year

155

The Afterlife & the Cemetery Tour

156

Dragons, Gods, & Cold Food: The Folklore of the Third Lunar Month

157

Hayashi: Korea's First Gangster

158

Majang Meat Market

159

Child Abuse at All-time High

160

Spirits, Bugs, and Frog Eggs: The Folklore of the Second Lunar Month

161

Interview with the Horror Artist

162

Patreon Special: Expats of the Wild East

163

Patreon Special: Weird Tales from Korean Lore

164

Surprising Things About Korean Food

165

Seollal

166

Spectre of Wintre (encore)

167

Dude, Where's My Bike!?

168

Best K-Horror of 2022

169

Christmas in Korea (encore)

170

Dying Traditions

171

Censorship

172

Tourists from Hell

173

The Literati Purge of 1519 (Joseon's Fall, part 3)

174

How Has Korea Changed in 20 Years?

175

The Dark Side of K-Pop Fandom

176

Itaewon Tragedy

177

Halloween in Korea

178

Korean SpOOky Tales

179

Koryo Saram

180

Hidden Myeong-dong

181

Caught a Predator

182

Tour Research and Rants

183

Land Mines

184

Scandal at the House of Sharing

185

Great Books

186

Dark Tourism

187

Clubbing in Seoul

188

Things People Get Wrong about Korea

189

K-Guns

190

Dreams

191

Imo Revolt

192

Noryangjin Fish Market

193

Lucky Charms

194

Prison Break 1988

195

The Bastard Prince

196

The Most Haunted Palace

197

Shawn Digs Graves

198

The Bells

199

Divination

200

Gwangju Massacre

201

Park Chung-hee vs. Vladimir Putin

202

Park Chung-hee, part 2: The Fall

203

Park Chung-hee, part 1: The Rise

204

Cheonggyecheon: The World's Longest Fountain

205

Sewol Ferry Disaster: Aftermath & Mysteries

206

Police Torture

207

Forensics in Korean Criminal History

208

The Rise and Demise of Pimatgol

209

How is Insa-dong?

210

Hidden Sex Cams

211

True Crime: Koreans Murdered Overseas

212

Lotte World Tower

213

Our 100th Episode

214

First Full Moon: Jeongwol Daeboreum

215

Why So Angry?

216

Year of the Tiger

217

Massacre at the Hospital

218

Rats!

219

Missing Persons 2: Overseas

220

Haphazard Bell, Haphazard New Year

221

Spectre of Winter

222

All I Want for Korean Christmas Is...

223

You Gonna Eat That?

224

The Curse of King Muryeong’s Tomb

225

Well, That’s Weird

226

Kids Who Kill, part 2

227

Kids Who Kill, part 1

228

The Wau Apartment Collapse

229

The Two Towers

230

More Korean Spooky Tales

231

16 Things You Didn't Know About North Korea’s Kim Il-Sung

232

Bullying part 2: In Society

233

Bullying part 1: In Schools

234

Korean Cults: Shincheonji

235

Korean Urban Legends 2

236

Korean Urban Legends

237

Serial Killer Yoo Young-Chul, part 4: Aftermath

238

Serial Killer Yoo Young-Chul, part 3: Caught!

239

Serial Killer Yoo Young-Chul, part 2: The Sinchon Murders

240

Serial Killer Yoo Young-Chul, part 1: Monstrous Origins

241

Made in Korea: Adoption & Identity with Jeremy Holt

242

Dark Side of the Olympics: The 1988 Bummer Games

243

Stories of the Gods

244

Creepy Stories for Summer Chills

245

Urban Exploring with Ryan Berkebile

246

Gender Issues in Modern Korea

247

Is Child Abuse Normalized?

248

Itaewon History 2: Rise, Fall, & Murders

249

Why Is Itaewon?

250

Five Reasons You Believe in Ghosts (And You Know You Do)

251

Don’t Do Drugs in Korea, Mmmkayy?

252

Korean Horror TV | Guest: Pierce Conran (K-Drama Critic)

253

The Dark Sides of Popular Tourist Sites

254

Off with Their Heads! Execution in Korea

255

Disasters that Shaped Modern Korea (21st Century)

256

"The Disaster Republic": Disasters that Shaped Modern Korea (1990s)

257

Disasters that Shaped Modern Korea (1980s)

258

Disasters that Shaped Modern Korea (1950s-70s)

259

The Dark Side of Sool

260

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

261

Psycho Prince Yeonsan (Joseon’s Fall, part 2)

262

True Crime: Who was the Cyanide Killer?

263

Divine Monks & Shapeshifters: Korean Folktale Types

264

Korean Independence Day: The Real Reasons It Matters

265

The Execution of Deposed Queen Yun (Joseon's Fall, part 1)

266

Interview with the Shaman

267

The Rise and Fall of Hongdae’s Underground Music Scene

268

Do Koreans Believe in Ghosts?

269

O, Death

270

#SorryJeongIn: Parents Murder Their Child

271

8 Weird and Surprising Seoul Landmarks

272

2020 Year in Review

273

The Brutal Ends of the Six Martyrs | King Sejo part 2

274

Young King, Power-hungry Uncle | King Sejo part 1

275

Dismembers Only

276

On Fire!

277

The Han River Bridge Bombing

278

Did Ye Get Healed? Korean Folk Remedies

279

Massacre on the Han River

280

Mountains: Gods, Ghosts, & Killers

281

Monsters!

282

When Exorcism Leads to Death | Exorcism & Possession 2

283

Exorcism & Possession, part 1

284

Cannibals. They Drive You Crazy.

285

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

286

Grave Matters

287

Lives of Women in the Joseon Dynasty (feat. What’s Han Your Mind)

288

11 Haunted Places in Seoul

289

Sado, the Royal Serial Killer?

290

Is Joe’s Apartment Haunted?

291

The 2011 Seoul Landslide and Other Natural Disasters

292

The Dark Side of Seoul Comic: Published!

293

The Death That Changed Seoul’s Foreign Community

294

Ghost Stories on Jayuro Highway

295

Disneyland Seoul and Other Amusement Park Urban Legends

296

The Self-Crucified Man and Other Mysterious Deaths

297

Korean Cults: Unification Church (The Moonies)

298

The Booze Ghost & Other Korean Spirits You Should Know

299

Korean Horror Films You Should Watch

300

The June Struggle: How to Overthrow a Dictator

301

The June Struggle: Torture, Death, Democracy

302

Dark Side of K-Pop: Superstitions and Scandal

303

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

304

Korean Buddhism part 1, From Mystical Beheading to Violent Coup

305

Warding Off Evil

306

Missing Person Cases

307

UFOs in Korea

308

True Crime: The Jijon Family

309

Angel's Demons

310

Tragic Deaths I

311

Epidemics

312

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