Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon, who was widely regarded as one of South Korea’s most powerful political figures and a contender for the nation’s presidency in 2022, was found dead in a wooded area in his home city hours after his daughter had reported him missing on Thursday. While the cause of death was still being…
Police in Seoul say they have found the body of the citys mayor, who was long seen as a potential South Korean presidential candidate, after he was reported missing by his daughter. Park Won-soon, 6…
June 5, 2014: Park Won-soon, then-candidate for Seoul city mayor of the main opposition party New Politics Alliance for Democracy celebrates his victory in the Seoul mayoral election at his office in Seoul, South Korea. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man) Local police said the body of the missing mayor of South Korea’s capital, Seoul, has been found.…
The mayor of South Korean capital Seoul went missing Thursday, prompting a large police search around the city’s Sungbuk neighborhood where his cellphone signal was last detected. The daughter of Mayor Park Won-soon said her father had left a concerning “will-like” voice message four to five hours before his disappearance. It remains unclear what the…
The North Korean flag is seen at mast past the barbed wire fencing of the North Korean embassy in Malaysia on March 27, 2017.Manan Vatsyayana | AFP | Getty ImagesSouth Korea says that North Korea has exploded an inter-Korean liaison office building just north of the tense Korean border.Seoul's Unification Ministry says the destruction of…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…