Seoul: A will left by late Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon states that he feels ‘sorry to all people’. The will has also said that his body should be ‘cremated’. The Seoul Mayor was 64 when he breathed his last.
Park’s body was found early Friday, hours after he was reported missing. Police had launched a massive search for him at wooded hill in northern Seoul. They said there were no signs of foul play at the site but refused to disclose his cause of death.
Seoul’s city government Friday revealed Park’s will which they say was found at his residence.
“I feel sorry to all people. I thank everyone who has been with me in my life,” the note shown on TV said. “I am always sorry to my family because I’ve given them only pains. Please cremate my body and scatter around the graves of my parents.”
Park’s daughter had called police Thursday afternoon and said her father had given her ‘a will-like’ verbal message in the morning. This happened before Park left home. Authorities mobilised about 600 police and fire officers, drones and tracking dogs to locate him.
Park, 64, a longtime civic activist and human rights lawyer, was elected Seoul mayor in 2011. He became the city’s first mayor to be voted to a third term in June 2018.
A member of President Moon Jae-in’s liberal Democratic Party, he had been considered a potential presidential candidate in 2022 elections.
However, there is a information which has surfaced since Park’s death. A former Seoul City employee filed a police complaint — allegedly involving sexual harassment — against him Wednesday.
