This is a huge news story in South Korea and sometimes reality as as dramatic as fiction. The current Mayor of Seoul Park Won Soon was found dead today after what was a wild series of events. His daughter reported him missing after he left what she described as a voicemail message that sounded like a will. Over 600 police officers with dogs and drones were dispatched to the area where his cell phone was tracked. His body was eventually located near Sukjoengmun in the northern part of Seoul city. In recent days he was accused by his secretary of sexual harassment going back to 2017, with him sending messages and pictures to her via SNS. He just won re-election to a third term, the first time for any Seoul mayor, and had always run as a human rights activist lawyer turned politician for the liberal leaning party. He was seen as a potential presidential candidate in 2022. Obviously with his death the sexual harassment allegations will not be adjudicated in a court of law but his decision to take the final way out will clearly have cascading personal and political ramnifications.
