A 46-year-old man slipped and drowned in a pond at a golf course while retrieving golf balls, police said Thursday.
According to Sacheon Police Station in South Gyeongsang Province, the man surnamed Yoon was collecting golf balls using a fishing net out of the 2-meter-deep pond on the fourth hole with two other men at around 10 p.m. Wednesday.
They snuck into the golf course to retrieve balls lost in water hazard areas to sell them to used goods stores.
Police said the three decided to break into the course to make easy money after watching a TV program in which people dredge golf balls from the bottom of golf course pools. Police officers confiscated two 40-kilogram sacks containing 1,105 golf balls at the scene.
They booked the two men without physical detention on charges of theft and are looking further into exactly how Yoon drowned.