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Rotten Mango

#160: Korean “Molar Daddy” Case (Lee Young-Hak)

Rotten Mango

Stephanie Soo

True Crime, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.825.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2022

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

It all started when a woman jumped from her bathroom window. The police questioned whether or not it was a suicide. The whole nation did. Why did the seemingly happy wife and mother take her own life? Maybe someone pushed her? Why was her entire back filled with sexually derogatory tattoos? Just weeks later her father-in-law took his own life, and a 14-year-old girl’s body was found stuffed in a suitcase. How were they all connected? To make things more puzzling - the person at the center of the web was someone that is loved by the entire nation... Full Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

There's something so romantic about winter and I don't know whether that's just because

0:06.9

I'm a bit of a homebody and I love a 5.

0:09.5

But I think it's just the holiday period, it's just for me, it's the most romantic period.

0:15.6

And I think anyone who's listened to my records will know that I'm quite a big fan of

0:18.9

romance.

0:19.9

Joy in every sip with red carp's now back at Starbucks.

0:27.8

Welcome to this week's mini-sode of Rotten Mango, I'm your host Stephanie Sue.

0:33.9

And it was a quiet, peaceful night in this particular street in this whole South Korea.

0:40.6

Everyone was in their homes watching TV, doing homework.

0:43.4

I mean imagine after a long day of work you're cleaning up, you're putting things away,

0:48.0

it's almost still outside.

0:50.4

But if you looked closely you would see a lone figure laying on the sidewalk, laying

0:55.6

on her back blood dripping.

0:58.2

It was almost this eerie calm before the storm.

1:01.4

Eventually enough neighbors noticed an ambulance was rushed to the scenes, sirens blaring, police

1:06.7

show up, news station show up.

1:09.2

There were so many questions that would grip the nation in this case.

1:12.8

For example, why did this young mother, this young wife seemingly so happy with so much

1:18.3

to look forward to, why did she take her own life?

1:21.2

I mean there were so many reasons why suicide just did not make logical sense, not just

1:26.4

such yet a great life, but the fact that, you know, just evidence wise, why did she fall

1:31.4

diagonally, why was she on her back, why was the window so small, all of these things

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