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Seoul's mayor found dead, hours after he was reported missing
- deleted 6y ago[deleted]
- OkGoDoIt 6y agoThe article doesn’t elaborate, is this thought to be an accident while hiking or is there a chance it was more sinister? He was found in the mountains, but there’s no other details. The political details about his likeliness of being a force for change in the upcoming presidential election certainly implies funny business would be worth considering.
- gzu 6y agoThere was recent alleged sexual harassment between him and his secretary so its presumed to be suicide.
- kbaker 6y agoA bit more information from the NY Times article: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/09/world/asia/seoul-mayor-dead.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/09/world/asia/seoul-mayor-de... > His disappearance came a day after a secretary in the mayor’s office told the police that he had been sexually harassing her since 2017, two Seoul television stations reported, attributing the information to unidentified police sources. > Mr. Park, 64, had canceled his official schedule for Thursday and called in sick to City Hall. His daughter told the police that he had left home after leaving a cryptic, “will-like message,” according to Yonhap, the national news agency, which cited an anonymous police source. > When Mr. Park had not returned home after five hours, his daughter called the police.
- macleginn 6y ago“Nearly 600 police officers and firefighters, along with three rescue dogs, were deployed to search for the mayor.” This looks like a typo or a very surprising number of rescue dogs.
- hknapp 6y agoI don't understand.
- SftwreEngnr 6y agoWhich part?
- sgillen 6y agowhy are three dogs surprising? should we expect a lot more
- kanonieer 6y agoIsn't the image weird? 600 people in the search party, split across many directions and only 3 of them have rescue dogs. Given the importance of the event, and the effectiveness of rescue dogs (actually a dog found the mayor), one would have to assume that it's a typo. Even a 30-man search and rescue party would generally have more than 3 dogs.
- macleginn 6y agoMore (scraps of) information here at the moment: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/53346831 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/53346831
- mensetmanusman 6y agoLikely suicide. I had a recent covid-insanity-related thought on the topic of suicide. For the non-religious, suicide is going to sleep forever instead of just for the night. What if there was an option to go to sleep for a decade? Would people want that? Would it be even legal to research? Seems like it would have applications for space travel. I wonder what the moral implications would be... (and Judge Dredd would have predicted this).
- pluto9 6y agoThere could be a small "future tourism" market for people wealthy enough to afford it and willing to leave behind everything and everyone they know. As a way for people to escape a bad present in hopes of a better future, I don't think it would make much sense. The only people who could afford it probably have a pretty good present.
- tibbydudeza 6y agoIn Japan there are specialists called "night-moving agents" that helps people to disappear from life situations they are unable to cope with. They are called "johatsu" or "evaporated" people.
- livueta 6y agoSounds a lot like one of the standalone-ish arcs of Transmetropolitan: https://comicsalliance.com/the-issue-transmetropolitan-another-cold-morning/ https://comicsalliance.com/the-issue-transmetropolitan-anoth...