By Park Si-soo Staff Reporter A second generation Korean American was arrested here after evading an FBI search for nearly nine years on charges of killing a retired policeman in the United States. The murder suspect, identified as Nam, 31, an ethnic Korean with American citizenship, was caught at a private school in Gyeonggi Province where he was teaching English, police said. The suspect has worked here as an instructor at private language schools in Seoul, Gyeonggi, Jeolla and Gyeongsang provinces since fleeing the United States while on bail. ``He changed his workplace every two or three months in order not to be caught,'' Lee Jae-sool, the spokesman for the Gyeonggi Provincial Police Agency, said. ``He will soon be extradited to the United States after appearing in a Korean court.'' He was initially arrested in January 1997 in Pennsylvania, with three other accomplices on charges of killing a former U.S. policeman with the victim's own gun. The suspect was granted bail for $1 million and confined under house arrest, but he fled to Seoul the following year. Police had searched for the suspect since 1998 at the request of the FBI and arrested him on March 4, 1999. But he was soon released as an extradition treaty between Seoul and Washington did not exist at the time. The treaty took effect on Dec. 20, 1999. Police resumed their search for the suspect from April 2000 and uncovered his whereabouts in Gwangju, Gyeonggi Province after focusing their investigation on popular locations for foreigners and private language schools. ``He first arrived here as a tourist but worked as an English teacher,'' Lee said. ``Most small-scale private language schools usually hire native English speaking teachers without checking their personal background because they cost less than qualified teachers.'' pss@koreatimes.co.kr