Episode Details

Across South Korea, one routine vaccination check uncovered one of the country's most heartbreaking child abuse cases. In 2022, police investigating a missing immunization record entered an apartment in Seoul and made a devastating discovery: the body of a baby girl hidden inside an airtight kimchi container for nearly three years. What began as a simple welfare inquiry quickly became a homicide investigation that shocked the nation.

In this episode of You Can't Unhear, we examine the tragic story of the Seoul kimchi container baby case, the criminal backgrounds of the child's parents, the forensic investigation that struggled to determine how she died, and how a single government employee's attention to a missing vaccination record finally gave an unnamed little girl the chance to be found. It's a heartbreaking reminder that sometimes the smallest detail can uncover the darkest secret.