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crescent
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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 Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 9:59 pm Post subject: NO apartment is complete without a free hanging manequin. |
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Man's Body Found 11 Months After Suicide
By Kim Rahn
Staff Reporter
The dead body of a man who lived alone lay unnoticed for 11 months in a one-room flat in Busan.
According to police, the new owner of the flat found the body of the previous owner, 49-year-old Sohn, Monday morning and reported it to police.
Sohn seemed to have hung himself from a pipe in the kitchen, police said. The new owner, Kim, had mistaken the body for a mannequin twice before realizing that it was a dead body.
``The body was dried up like a mummy. We suspect he died about 11 months ago, considering that his last phone call was made on Oct. 5 and that he was wearing fall clothes,'' a police officer said.
After buying the house through an auction in July, Kim checked the house in July and August before living there but did not notice that there was a body.
It was not until Monday that Kim found out what the ``mannequin'' was: Kim's girlfriend who came to help him clean the house said that it looked like a human body, and Kim touched it, learning that she was right.
``Neighbors did not know Sohn was dead, because the body did not give out a bad smell as it was dried up in the well-ventilated kitchen. He had severed ties with his family and lived alone, so no one tried to contact him over the last 11 months,'' the officer said.
It is not the first time that a person living alone has been found dead long after death amid neighbors' indifference. In June last year, a man in his 60s was found dead and neighbors did not know it until one of them reported a bad smell coming from the house to police. Police suspected he had died roughly a month before. Earlier in February, another man was found dead when his nephew visited him roughly three months after his death.
The number of such cases is increasing amid growing individualism and apathy toward others, especially toward senior citizens living alone. The authorities are preparing preventive measures for such elderly people without families, but experts say the solution is not so easy for young adults living alone.
``Local authorities have programs where public servants regularly visit or call the elderly living alone to check whether they are fine. A county in Jeju once devised a program where the local government paid for yogurt for senior citizens living alone, so that yogurt deliverywomen could check their condition everyday,'' Lee Sung-kee, Inje University's social welfare department professor, said.
He said, however, no country yet has programs against emergencies or the death of every person living alone.
``Unlike the elderly, it is not easy to apply such a care program to those who `choose' to live alone and alienate themselves from society, like Sohn. We cannot force them to be involved in such protective programs unless they want to,'' Lee said.
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http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2008/09/117_30795.html
So the real estate agent was blind? |
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orosee
Joined: 07 Mar 2008
Location: Hannam-dong, Seoul
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| Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 11:10 pm Post subject: |
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Being able to confuse a dead body in a tiny apartment with a mannequin means that the Korean obsession with slimness has just gone too far!!!
If Korean police would just investigate they could find as many as 50 more dead bodies in the show windows at COEX alone!
Because we all know, a mummified body and a mannequin are nearly identical 
EDIT: Grammar self-policing action |
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cruisemonkey
Joined: 04 Jul 2005
Location: Hopefully, the same place as my luggage.
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| Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 11:19 pm Post subject: |
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| This speaks volumes about the all-pervasive smells in most K-neighbourhoods! |
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Poemer
Joined: 20 Sep 2005
Location: Mullae
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| I don't understand this either. If it was the dead guys apt. how did it get sold after he was dead? Wouldn't he have had to be involved in that transaction somehow? Even if he was a renter, wouldn't the landlord, at some point in time, have noticed him hanging there? And as someone else said, what about the realtor? I would have liked to hear that conversation "Oh THAT, haha, funny story, the guy who lived here before, what a joker. All of the sudden he stopped paying rent, left all his stuff here and hung up this mannequin. What a kidder. But seriously, it is a great apt. and the mannequin is included, you should definitely ddecide now if you want it, there's a guy who's coming by later, a ventriloquist, who is VERY interested. . ." |
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billybrobby
Joined: 09 Dec 2004
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The room is well ventilated...but nobody smells it from the outside...probably because the windows were closed....don't you guys see what happened??
A fan killed him in his sleep and then set the body up to look like a hanging. |
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brento1138
Joined: 17 Nov 2004
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| Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2008 7:53 am Post subject: |
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| billybrobby wrote: |
The room is well ventilated...but nobody smells it from the outside...probably because the windows were closed....don't you guys see what happened??
A fan killed him in his sleep and then set the body up to look like a hanging. |
If I were walking down the street anywhere in Korea, and noticed a bad smell, I'd be like... this is the 58375837th bad smell in Korea! Yepp yepp! And keep going on my merry way.
And I have to agree with you, however, slightly disagree. I believe the fan victim was merely dangling from the rope, maybe trying to stretch out his neck (maybe he felt short, wants to do well in basketball, trying to date a taller girl, you know). As he was doing this neck stretch, the fan started chopping up oxygen particles. The oxygen particles then disappeared from the room, and the hanging fellow started choking due to lack of air.
There is no question about it. The fan killed him!
Always turn off your fan while neck stretching! |
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orosee
Joined: 07 Mar 2008
Location: Hannam-dong, Seoul
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| Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2008 4:41 pm Post subject: |
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| Not to be rude, but perhaps in Korea the neighbours call the police when they notice "a delightful odor" coming from the next door apartment? |
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