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S3 E8 — Burning Sun: Exposing the Secret K-pop Chat Groups
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Burning Sun: Exposing the Secret K-pop Chat Groups
May 19, 2024
In South Korea, K-pop stars have fame, fortune and millions of female fans. But some led a double life, inhabiting a hidden world where videos of women being drugged, raped and humiliated were shared. This film tells the story of the female journalists who took on the task of investigating the secret chat groups of prominent K-pop stars - and paid a high personal price.
The Apartheid Killer: Exposing the ghosts of South Africa’s past
Jul 22, 2024
One of worst mass killers in South Africa’s history is free from prison - and he is ready to speak. Thirty years since his atrocities, his victims are still fighting for closure and justice. In the late 1980s, private security guard Louis van Schoor fatally shot dozens people in the South African city of East London. All of his victims were black. The youngest was just 12 years old. It is a bloodbath that places Van Schoor among the most prolific killers in history. He was caught and arrested in 1991. But with many of his shootings signed off by local police as ‘justifiable homicides,’ he would receive a shockingly light sentence - serving only 12 years in jail. Decades have past, but the relatives of his victims have never found closure. How many people did Van Schoor really kill? And who else was involved? It's been thirty years since the white supremacist apartheid regime crumbled. The unresolved trauma of this time has cast a long shadow across a nation.
