Vanished without a trace: Korea's most mystifying unsolved missing person cases
Of the roughly 70,000 adults reported missing in Korea every year, nearly all are found within weeks. But a small fraction vanish without a trace, and some stay missing for decades. According to data from the National Police Agency submitted in August to Rep. Chung Choon-saeng of the Rebuilding Korea Party, the share of missing adult cases resolved within 30 days has stayed near 99 percent over…
Veterinary student Lee Yun-hee (2006) went missing 20 years ago and has never been found. On June 5, 2006, she attended an end-of-semester gathering with professors and classmates at a restaurant roughly 1.5 kilometers from her studio apartment. She returned home around 2:30 a.m. the next day. Despite the high resolution rate for missing persons in Korea, Lee Yun-hee's case remains unsolved, a testament to the perplexing nature of these inexplicable disappearances.
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