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Two faces of dead girl's father

Ko Jun-hee’s father, 36, stands in front of Jeonbuk Police Office before being questioned on Dec.30. The father admitted dumping his daughter’s body on a hill in North Jeolla Province in April. / YonhapBy Bahk Eun-jiThe parents of missing girl Ko Jun-hee, who found dead last week, had been getting along with neighbors and had a good reputation in the neighborhood, reports said Monday.Some neighbors called the five-year-old’s father a “superman.”The father, surnamed Ko, 36, and his common-law wife, Lee, 35, had been active in the neighborhood and the residents’ online community.“Ko was like the head of this small village. The father often posted his private life stories on the village’s online community site,” Yonhap news agency quoted a resident as saying.Ko often offered to help other residents, such as lending them tools. He put a sticker saying “Head of village” on his motorcycle.Ko’s common-law wife, Lee, was also known for her devotion to her young son, the report said. According to villagers, Lee told them

Jan 1, 2018
Two faces of dead girl's father

Ex-president, Samsung heir greet New Year in prison

By Kim Bo-eunFormer President Park Geun-hyeFormer President Park Geun-hye and Samsung Group heir Lee Jae-yong greeted the New Year in prison. In detention, they are undergoing trials related to the massive corruption scandal that removed Park from office last year.Those also facing the same fate are Park’s longtime friend Choi Soon-sil, her former aide Woo Byung-woo and her former chief of staff Kim Ki-choon.The inmates had tteokguk, or rice cake soup, which Koreans traditionally eat on New Year’s Day. As a special meal, samgyetang, or chicken soup with ginseng, was also served.In addition, marking the New Year, the detention center screened the American romantic comedy “50 First Dates” featuring Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore.Park, who was impeached on March 10 last year, has been detained at the Seoul Detention Center since a warrant was issued on March 31. A second warrant was issued in October, extending her detention through April this year.The court has been off since Dec. 26 until Jan. 5, but hearings on Park’s bribery charges have been held thro

Jan 1, 2018
Ex-president, Samsung heir greet New Year in prison

One dead, two missing after fishing boat capsizes

(Left) Coastguards found a life raft with six survivors from the capsized fishing boat Hyunjin-ho at night on Dec. 31. (Right) Coastguards found the capsized Hyunjin-ho near Chuja IslandBy Ko Dong-hwanA man is dead and two are missing after a fishing boat capsized off the south coast on Dec. 28. Coastguards found a life raft with six sailors from the 203 Hyunjin-ho about 5.5 kilometers southeast of where the vessel capsized. One man was unconscious and was taken by helicopter to a hospital in Jeju Island. He died while being treated. The others, including the captain and the boatswain, were taken to the same hospital, where they were being treated for hypothermia.Thirteen coastguard ships, two helicopters, six private fishing boats and two navy vessels searched areas near where the Hyunjin-ho capsized, but failed to find the two missing men.Hyunjin-ho left Hallim Harbor on Jeju Island on Dec. 28 and capsized near Chuja Island for unknown reasons.The crew of another fishing boat saw the capsized vessel at around 7:18 p.m. the same day and reported the sighting to the island’s co

Jan 1, 2018
One dead, two missing after fishing boat capsizes

Police arrest mother over deaths of three children in fire

Forensic investigators enter the apartment building where three children died in a fire on Sunday. / YonhapBy Bahk Eun-jiPolice have arrested a mother, 22, without warrant on Monday over a fire in which her three children died at an apartment in Gwangju, South Jeolla Province. Two boys, aged 5 and 3, and a 15-month-old girl ― were found dead in a room on Sunday, and their mother was rescued from a balcony with two-degree burns on her legs and arms.The mother first claimed she had forgotten boiling water to cook ramen, but when police pointed out that the stove was hardly damaged, she said she had put out her cigarette on a blanket.Forensic investigators said the children died from smoke suffocation. The police investigation is focused on whether the mother started the fire deliberately.Police say that when the fire broke out, the mother escaped to the balcony alone without waking the three children. She also phoned her ex-husband instead of calling 119.Police say no cigarette butt was found in the room where the children died, and that forensic investigation showed the fire did

Jan 1, 2018
Police arrest mother over deaths of three children in fire
  • Three children die in apartment blaze

Three children die in apartment blaze

Firemen and forensic investigators examine the apartment building where three children died in a fire on Sunday. / YonhapBy Bahk Eun-jiThree children died and a young mother was injured in a fire at an apartment in Gwangju, South Jeolla Province, police said Sunday.According to Gwangju Provincial Police Office, the fire started at 2:28 a.m. in an apartment building in Gwangju.The fire was extinguished in 25 minutes, but three children ― two boys aged 5 and 3, and a 15-month-old girl ― were found dead in a room. Their mother, 22, was rescued from a balcony with two-degree burns on her legs and arms.Police said the fire appeared to have started in the room where the three children had been asleep.The mother had got drunk and shortly before the fire called her ex-husband, saying she wanted to kill herself, according to police. They said the mother first claimed she had forgotten boiling water to cook ramen and fell asleep. She then claimed she could not remember whether she had put out her cigarette because she was drunk.Police pointed out that despite the mother’s ramen

Dec 31, 2017
Three children die in apartment blaze
  • Police arrest mother over deaths of three children in fire

One South Korean dead, two injured in car accident in Australia

One South Korean was killed and two others injured in a car accident in Australia, local police and the South Korean consulate sources said Sunday. The accident occurred in an intersection in Lockyer Valley, Queensland, at around 1:30 p.m. on Saturday, when a sedan carrying four people, including three Koreans, veered off the road and overturned. The car crash left a 24-year-old South Korean man dead and another Korean national who was sitting in the back with a serious head injury. Another Korean man and Taiwanese woman suffered light wounds, according to the authorities. The Korean consulate did not reveal their identities, while confirming that they had been staying in the country on a working holiday visa. The local police there are investigating to figure out what exactly caused the accident. In October, a 29-year-old Korean man on a working holiday visa was killed in a car accident in Tamworth, New South Wales. (Yonhap)

Dec 31, 2017

Canadian criminal suspect works as professor in Seoul: report

Paul Laan is a suspect in a missing-person case in Canada. / Captured from CBCBy Chyung Eun-juA former professor at a Seoul-based university is a suspect in a mysterious missing-person case in Canada, according to South Korean broadcaster JTBC. Canadian Paul Laan taught English at Sahmyook University in Nowon, northern Seoul, from 2014. The university stripped him of his professorship early this month after learning of the accusations in Canada and then terminated his contract. According to the report, Laan came to Korea in 2006 and earned a living by teaching English at private or public institutes. According to JTBC and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), he was a suspect in a high-profile missing-person case in Ontario in 1998. A woman in her 70s, known as the “Cat Lady,” was a tenant in his house and disappeared outside Huntsville. Police later found that three other tenants were missing. Police investigating the case saw Laan as a suspect but they found no evidence, and it became a cold case. CBC put the case back in the spotlight on its investigat

Dec 29, 2017
Canadian criminal suspect works as professor in Seoul: report

Missing girl found dead on hillside; father arrested as prime suspect

Investigators carry the body of Koh Jun-hee, 5, found on a hillside in North Jeolla Province early Friday. Her father recently confessed to dumping her body there in April. / YonhapPolice on Friday found the body of a 5-year-old missing girl on a hillside in the western coastal city of Gunsan following her father's confession to having disposed of it, officials said.The Jeonbuk Provincial Police Agency said that at 4:45 a.m., the body of Koh Jun-hee was discovered wrapped in a towel under a tree on the hillside, about a 50-minute drive from where she stayed. She was reported to have gone missing a little over three weeks ago.The investigation into the case gained traction as her 36-year-old father, who was put under emergency arrest, confessed Thursday to having dumped her body on a hill in the city 270 kilometers south of Seoul in April.Based on the father's statement, police presume that Koh died because she choked on food. Her father has said that he concealed her death for fear that it would cause trouble in his divorce settlement with her birth mother.Police plan to examine her

Dec 29, 2017
Missing girl found dead on hillside; father arrested as prime suspect

1 killed, 15 injured in crane collapse

Police investigate the bus hit by a crane near the Gangseo District Office in western Seoul, Thursday. / YonhapBy Jung Min-hoA crane collapsed onto a bus in western Seoul, Thursday, killing one passenger and injuring 15 others, according to police and firefighters.The crane, set up at a construction site near the Gangseo District Office, suddenly collapsed at around 9:40 a.m. onto a city bus (No. 650) waiting at traffic lights, police said.A few minutes later, rescue workers arrived at the scene and took the injured passengers to a nearby hospital, but a 53-year-old woman, surnamed Kim, was killed in the incident.According to firefighters, one person is in intensive care after suffering serious injuries while the rest sustained minor ones.“The horizontal strut called a boom hit the middle of the bus,” a rescue worker said. “The people most seriously injured were those who were standing in the middle.”The 70-ton crane was being used to demolish a five-story building at the time of the incident. The crane, police said, collapsed as its operator was trying t

Dec 28, 2017
1 killed, 15 injured in crane collapse

'Money Flower': why same old stories keep viewers turning in

By Kang Hyun-kyung“There’re people out there who say money is nothing but a tool, and they even say they hate the super rich. I bet they wouldn’t say that if they were rich. Hypocrites! They hate rich people because they are jealous of them. They’re disgusting.”In episode 3 of the popular TV series “Money Flower,” soft-spoken Lee Mi-sook, who plays Jang Mal-ran, widow of the first son of Cheong-A Group founder Jang Kook-whan, drops this sarcastic remark. She was speaking about the girl her son is dating ? the daughter of a leading presidential candidate ? in a conversation with her mentor, Jang Hyuk who plays corporate lawyer Kang Pil-joo.The corporate lawyer briefed Lee about the developments of the marriage of convenience the super rich family has been pushing for to benefit their business in the future.TV critic Jung Duk-hyun describes “Money Flower” as a cliche but high-end drama. “It’s a cliche because the TV series deals with old topics such as money, infighting inside a super rich family to gain control of a com

Dec 28, 2017
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