Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon Leaves Official Residence at 10:45 AM... Missing Contact for 9 Hours

Mayor Park Won-soon of Seoul
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[Asia Economy Reporters Donghoon Jeong, Seungyoon Song, Jeongyun Lee] A missing person report has been filed for Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon, prompting the police to launch a search. It is known that Mayor Park did not go to work and canceled all official schedules on the 9th, citing poor health.

According to the police and Seoul city officials, Mayor Park was last seen leaving the mayoral residence located in Gahoe-dong, Jongno-gu, at around 10:44 a.m. that day. At the time of his departure, Mayor Park was wearing a dark-colored jumper, black pants, gray shoes, and a black hat, carrying a black backpack.

Mayor Park was scheduled to meet with Kim Sa-yeol, Chairman of the Presidential Committee on Balanced National Development, at the mayor’s office at 4:40 p.m. to discuss regional balanced development with a focus on Seoul-region cooperation. However, Seoul city announced the cancellation of the meeting at around 10:40 a.m. that day.

According to mobile phone location tracking, the signal from Mayor Park’s phone was last detected somewhere in Seongbuk-gu before it was lost.

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