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Korea Herald
30-05-2025
- Korea Herald
‘Please take me with you': Diver recounts eerie discovery of teacher missing since 2010
Days after South Korean police confirmed that the body found in Andong Dam in Andong, North Gyeongsang Province, belonged to a school vice principal who vanished in 2010, new details have emerged, including an account from the man who discovered the body. Baek Min-gyu, 55, a former leader of the Andong water rescue team, was conducting maintenance work on the dam on May 17 when he accidentally dropped a ladder into the water twice. Wearing scuba gear, he dove down roughly 30 meters to retrieve it, only to drop it again in the same spot. The second time he went in was when he found the body, which was later confirmed through DNA testing to be the vice principal, who was 53 at the time of his disappearance on August 17, 2010. Baek, who participated in the original search 15 years ago as a civilian, said he felt as if he were hearing a voice before the discovery. "I kept hearing, 'Please, take me with you,'" he said in an interview with a local news outlet. "I don't even know why I went back so deep into the water for that cheap ladder. I just felt I had to." The victim's body showed damage to the head, arms and legs, but other parts of the body, including the torso, remained mostly intact. The Gyeongbuk Provincial Police Agency said the water and mud appear to have combined to help preserve the body. The police plan to give Baek a certification of appreciation for helping solve one of the region's longest-running missing-person cases.
Korea Herald
29-05-2025
- Korea Herald
Body found nearly intact in dam identified as teacher missing for 15 years
South Korean police confirmed Thursday that a body found recently in the Andong Dam in Andong, North Gyeongsang Province, has been identified as a vice principal of a nearby school, who went missing in August 2010. The Gyeongbuk Provincial Police Agency said they will close the cold case involving the victim, who was 53, after the investigators found no evidence of foul play. The cross-referencing of the DNA samples from the body and the victim's daughter resulted in a 99.9999 percent match, according to officials. The body was found at around 3:44 p.m. of May 17, after officials received a report of a dead man inside the dam. The local rescue authorities salvaged the body on May 19 and handed it over to the police. The victim's body was partially damaged on the head, arm and legs, but other parts of the body such as the torso remained mostly intact. Officials said the water and mud appears to have combined to help preserve the body.
