#290: The Silent Killer of South Korea That Murdered 1500 Young People

Rotten Mango

Stephanie Soo

True Crime, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.8 • 25.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2023

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

In a South Korean emergency room a young family anxiously waited for help. Their 3 month old baby had been perfectly healthy but now his X-rays showed evidence that his lungs were literally solidifying and turning into rock. He was dying and there was nothing they could do to save him. They walked in a family of 3 - walked out a family of 2. Just a few days later the same family of 2 walked back in - and only 1 walked out alive. In the matter of a week 2 family members had died. But that’s not all - doctors around the nation noticed an alarming new killer on the streets. A new poison targeting children and pregnant women. Could they find the culprit before it was too late? 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	In a South Korean emergency room, this is May of 2009.
0:07.3	There was the Lee family that were anxiously waiting for help.
0:11.4	You know, it just seemed like the parents, so it's Mr and Mrs Lee, their new parents
0:16.2	maybe about 20 or something years old, and they have their three-month-old baby, their
0:20.6	three-month-old infant.
0:22.6	And like these parents, their dark circles under their eyes, they look like they're being
0:26.6	pulled down by gravity itself, they look, they look beat.
0:30.9	Their eyes are frantic, I mean, it looks like they had been fueling themselves with
0:34.7	just adrenaline alone.
0:37.2	And you know, the hospital, they get a lot of these parents, and they get all these parents
0:40.5	that are new, and they're scared, and they're like, my kid is coughing, I don't know what
0:43.9	to do, I feel like my kid is in trouble, can you please help?
0:46.8	And usually it's nothing, right, usually.
0:50.3	This case wasn't that.
0:52.6	Three-month-old baby Lee was perfectly healthy the day of his birth.
0:56.5	He went to all of his checkups, perfectly healthy, until just about a week ago, according
1:02.0	to the parents, he started having these little hiccups.
1:04.8	He would hiccup, and at first it was cute, they're like, oh my god, he knows how to
1:08.5	hiccup, and then slowly these hiccups would morph into these coughing fits.
1:15.1	He would wake himself up in pain from his little naps and just coughing up a storm.
1:21.1	They were so worried.
1:22.2	I mean, the way that he was screaming was ear piercing, something was clearly wrong.
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