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The police said she was alive. They said they had spoken to her. They told her family to stop looking.
On May 12, 2026, 37-year-old Jang Mi-ran walked out of her accommodation on Jeju Island in slippers and disappeared. Three days later, the officer handling her missing-person report claimed he had contacted her and confirmed she was safe. But no such call ever happened—and what he entered into the police system was even harder to explain.
Months later, Jang was found dead just 400 meters from where she had been staying. Then another family came forward with an eerily similar story involving the same officer. What initially looked like one mishandled disappearance soon widened into a review of 298 missing-person cases—and questions about how easily someone could be declared “found” without ever being found at all.
Join Megan as she follows the trail from Jang Mi-ran’s final CCTV image to the false police records, another missing man found dead, hundreds of reopened files, and the disturbing forensic questions that may now be impossible to answer.
Because on Jeju Island, the mystery isn’t only why people disappeared. It’s how the system made them disappear a second time.
Podcast: Dark Asia with Megan