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South Korea Missing Persons Scandal Prompts Major Review

🐿️ The Squirrel's Take
This staggering breach of trust reveals a systemic cover-up that likely buried countless unresolved disappearances under fake closures.
💡 Why it matters
The re-examination could uncover evidence in thousands of cold cases and force fundamental reforms to South Korea's missing person investigative procedures.

South Korean police will re-examine approximately 310,000 missing person cases closed over the past three years after an officer was arrested for falsifying records to close cases on two people later found dead. The scandal has drawn national attention and prompted an

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