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- 🇰🇷KR · History#3630K to 100K
- 🇳🇬NG · History#181500 to 3K
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15K to 52K🎙 ~2x weekly·309 episodes·Last published 1w ago - Monthly Reach
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31K to 103K🇰🇷97%🇳🇬3% - Active Followers
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The Korean Ghost and Mr. Skeptic
Jun 17, 2026
Unknown duration
Paper Problems: South Korea's Election Fiasco Explained
Jun 9, 2026
1h 02m 00s
Burned Twice
Jun 3, 2026
29m 37s
The Dark Side of Finger Hearts - Fun Sized
May 27, 2026
17m 16s
Korean Myths that Won’t Die, and Some New Myths We Created | FUN SIZED!
May 20, 2026
22m 41s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6/17/26 |  The Korean Ghost and Mr. Skeptic | Send us Fan Mail After the release of his book Supernatural Encounters in South Korea, one of the comments Shawn received surprised him. Several readers expected a book about ghosts to be written by a true believer. Instead, they found a surprisingly skeptical approach to paranormal claims. One reviewer described the book as "a rather clever turn," while another called Shawn "a more discerning Peter Underwood." In this episode, Joe and Shawn discuss why skepticism is essential when researchin... | — | ||||||
| 6/9/26 |  Paper Problems: South Korea's Election Fiasco Explained✨ | electionspolitics+3 | — | — | South KoreaSeoul+2 | South Koreaelections+3 | — | 1h 02m 00s | |
| 6/3/26 |  Burned Twice✨ | insurance loopholecar explosion+3 | — | — | KoreaShawn’s neighborhood+2 | insurance loopholecar explosion+3 | — | 29m 37s | |
| 5/27/26 |  The Dark Side of Finger Hearts - Fun Sized✨ | biometric crimeAI scams+4 | — | Korean security experts | — | biometric datafinger hearts+4 | — | 17m 16s | |
| 5/20/26 |  Korean Myths that Won’t Die, and Some New Myths We Created | FUN SIZED!✨ | Korean mythsnationalism+3 | — | — | — | Korean mythsnationalism+3 | — | 22m 41s | |
| 5/10/26 |  Korea's Flashing Problem✨ | flashingpublic indecency+3 | — | — | KoreaSouth Korea+5 | flashingpublic indecency+5 | — | 27m 31s | |
| 4/29/26 |  The Composer Korea Tried to Execute✨ | musicpolitics+3 | — | traditional Korean soundsmodern European music | KoreaWest Berlin | Isang YunKorean composer+3 | — | 45m 34s | |
| 4/22/26 |  Fun Size: Why Teachers in Korea Can’t Take Sick Days✨ | sick leaveeducation+3 | — | Korea | — | sick daysteachers+5 | — | 20m 42s | |
| 4/10/26 |  The Korean Cherry Blossom Controversy✨ | cherry blossomsJapanese colonial rule+3 | — | — | Korea | cherry blossomsKorea+4 | — | 42m 23s | |
| 4/3/26 |  Fun Size: The Gwanghwamun Sign Controversy✨ | Gwanghwamun sign controversyKorean writing systems+3 | — | HangulHanja | GwanghwamunKorea | GwanghwamunHangul+5 | — | 17m 19s | |
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| 3/20/26 |  The Korea “Would You Rather” Episode You Didn’t Know You Needed✨ | Korean foodhiking+3 | — | bibimbap | Bukhan-sanInwang-san+1 | Korean foodhiking+5 | — | 1h 08m 42s | |
| 3/13/26 |  Why You Can't Bury Your Pet in Korea✨ | pet ownershippet funerals+4 | — | — | — | pet ownershippet funerals+5 | — | 1h 07m 29s | |
| 3/2/26 |  SEAblings vs. K-netz: When K-pop Fandom Turned Into a Regional Reckoning✨ | K-pop fandomcultural conflict+3 | — | Day6K-netz+1 | Kuala Lumpur | K-popfandom+3 | — | 1h 43m 26s | |
| 1/21/26 |  Reading the Dead: What Korean Graves Tell Us✨ | cemeteriesKorean culture+4 | — | — | KoreaKorean | Korean gravescemetery season+5 | — | 1h 01m 34s | |
| 1/14/26 |  Who Should Still Be Driving in Korea?✨ | elderly driverstraffic accidents+3 | — | — | South KoreaSeoul | elderly driverstraffic accidents+5 | — | 59m 57s | |
| 1/7/26 |  Where Have All the Soju Tents Gone? Part 2✨ | soju tentscultural history+4 | — | Pojangmacha | Seoul | soju tentsSeoul+5 | — | 49m 59s | |
| 12/31/25 |  Where Have All the Soju Tents Gone? Part 1✨ | soju tentspojangmacha+4 | — | Waffle Housepojangmacha | KoreaJoseon+1 | sojuKorea+5 | — | 54m 13s | |
| 12/24/25 |  Christmas Nightmares 2: Holiday Crimes | Send us Fan Mail Christmas is often framed as a moment of peace, forgiveness, and reflection. But in Korean history, Christmas Eve has repeatedly been chosen for violence, punishment, and erasure. In Part 2 of Christmas Nightmares, we examine three chilling cases tied to the holiday. We begin with the Seokdal-ri Massacre of 1949, when South Korean soldiers burned a mountain village and executed dozens of civilians on Christmas Eve — a crime buried by the state for decades. We then move to the... | — | ||||||
| 12/17/25 |  Christmas Nightmares 1: Darkest Holiday Stories | Send us Fan Mail Christmas is supposed to be a time of warmth, safety, and reunion. But history doesn’t always cooperate. In Part 1 of our two-part Christmas Nightmares series, we explore some of Korea’s darkest stories tied to the holiday season. We begin with the Heungnam Evacuation of 1950, remembered as the Miracle of Christmas, when nearly 100,000 refugees escaped North Korea by sea. But behind the miracle were impossible choices, brutal exclusions, and families torn apart in the freezin... | — | ||||||
| 12/10/25 |  K-Hacked: How Coupang Exposed Korea’s Cybersecurity Mess | Send us Fan Mail Shawn and Joe dig into Korea’s crumbling cybersecurity myth and the Coupang leak that exposed almost every user in the country. Korea sells itself as an IT powerhouse, but behind the fiber optics sit outdated servers, neglected government systems, weak regulations and a corporate culture that treats security like a box to check. From the SK Telecom and Lotte Card breaches to the government’s own embarrassing hacks, the episode breaks down why Korea keeps getting hit, why comp... | — | ||||||
| 12/2/25 |  Weird Tours | Send us Fan Mail Shawn and Joe trade war stories from the front lines of Seoul’s tour scene. Influencers melting down in costume, drunk guests apologizing between vomit breaks, bathroom disappearances, oddball actors who steal the show, couples who arrive mid-argument, and reviews born from pure misunderstanding. The episode digs into what really derails a tour, how guides survive it, and why some guests treat history like fan fiction. Add a little wildlife drama, a clown fight, a Kenny G bus... | — | ||||||
| 11/24/25 |  Short: The Expat Quest for Thanksgiving | Send us Fan Mail This is a blog post I (Joe) wrote on ZenKimchi.com in 2012 about the extreme lengths expats in Korea would go to for creating Thanksgiving in their adopted country. I exhume this post every year to remind myself and others that giving thanks goes beyond turkey, Macy’s parades, and football. Get your comic at DarkSideOfSeoul.com Support the show Join our Patreon to get more stuff https://patreon.com/darksideofseoul Book a tour of The Dark Side of Seoul Ghost Walk at https://d... | — | ||||||
| 11/19/25 |  The Secret Military Club That Hijacked Korea | Send us Fan Mail Korea’s modern history has plenty of villains, but Hanahoe might be the most quietly terrifying. This was the private club of military officers that spent decades pulling strings behind the scenes and building the foundation for South Korea’s authoritarian era. Chun Doo hwan and Roh Tae woo did not just show up and grab power. They were groomed for it inside this secret alumni club of Air Force cadets who treated the nation like their future inheritance. We get into the shado... | — | ||||||
| 11/15/25 |  Moving Graves | Send us Fan Mail Special Guest: Ron Chang Korean graves do not always stay where you put them. In this episode, Ron Chang joins us to talk about what it is really like to exhume and relocate family graves in Korea. Ron recently moved the graves of his grandmother and grandfather from a remote mountain cemetery in Yangju to the special North Korean heritage cemetery near Paju. We talk about Korean exhumation culture, pungsu, why graves get moved, and what actually happens on the day a burial m... | — | ||||||
| 11/7/25 |  The West Comes Knocking | The Fall of Joseon, part 18 (1791-1801) | Send us Fan Mail When a Dutch sailor shipwrecked on Jeju in 1627, he thought he’d been captured by cannibals. Instead, he became Korea’s first Westerner—and the first sign of change that would shake Joseon to its core. This episode traces the arrival of Western guns, God, and ideas—from Jan Janse de Weltevree to the Catholic persecutions of 1801—as Korea’s Confucian order faces its first real collision with the West. Korea's #1 ghost and dark history walking tour. Book at DarkSideOfSeo... | — | ||||||
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Chart Positions
2 placements across 2 markets.
Chart Positions
2 placements across 2 markets.