Frog boys: South Korea’s missing boys
Disappearance, death, and heartbreak.
March 26, 1991. A group of five boys goes on an adventure to find ‘salamander eggs’ in the mountain around Deagu on a public holiday (election day). That day they did not return home, in fact, never did.
Their disappearance caught the media’s attention and became the nationwide news. Even the President ordered a manhunt by police and military (300,000 in total) in the hope to bring them back home. It was reported that news channels were streaming this search in real-time.
The most heartbreaking part is that the fathers of these kids quit their job to look for their children all around South Korea. Reportedly, the mountain was searched more than 500 times!
September 26, 2002. A man hiking in the mountain stumbles upon the remains of the skeleton and reports it anonymously. Later, it was declared that those were the bodies of disappeared 5 kids.
The police ruled it out as ‘natural death from hypothermia! However, the parents opposed this decision and they claimed that the children knew the place was like their backyard and so getting lost was out of the question. Moreover, the forensics team found that one of the kids was tied using his own clothes, and the skulls of three children showed damage from blunt force. They…
