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Police Scandal in South Korea: Bodies Found After Cases Falsely Closed
SOUTH KOREA, 27 August
By John_Doe
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Police officers working at a crime scene on the coast of Jeju Island, South Korea.
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BBC
Four bodies have been found on Jeju island. This comes as police face heat for ignoring dozens of missing person reports.
A major scandal is hitting the police in South Korea. People are shocked after four bodies were discovered on the popular tourist island of Jeju. This discovery has brought to light a serious failure within the local police force. It turns out that one police officer had been marking missing person cases as "solved" or "closed" even though they never actually looked into them. Reports say this officer faked paperwork for about 200 different cases. Because of this, many people who went missing were never properly searched for. To make matters worse, the officer who lied about the Jang Mi-ra…