A 38-year-old Korean Canadian man, identified only by the initial “S,” turned himself in to Korean police and confessed to murdering his Korean girlfriend three years ago, according to new reports.
The man, who decided to turn himself in because of immense feelings of guilt, entered Yongsan Police Station and admitted to killing the 21-year-old university student. He told police that he returned to Korea to apologize to the woman’s family and face the consequences.
On March 23, 2009, the woman was found drowned near the Dongjak Bridge over Seoul’s Han River. The Canadian man was questioned at the time of the incident, but he claimed her death was an accident. And because there were no signs of foul play during the autopsy, the drowning was declared accidental.
The man, who had come to Korea to teach English in 2001, returned to Korea on Saturday and confessed his crime to an American pastor as well as his late girlfriend’s mother. He told police that he jumped into the Han River while holding tightly onto his girlfriend and pushed her head underwater when she attempted to get out. The man admitted that he drowned his girlfriend because he began to have delusions that she would hire someone to kill him after she refused his marriage proposal.
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Thanks, but that article like all the others, refer to him as Canadian, not Korean Canadian. I’m still curious why he is referred to as a Korean Canadian in Emily Kim’s article.
http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2012/01/18/2012011801377.html
You are the only news source that I’ve seen identify Mr. S as a Korean Canadian. I wonder if you can confirm this and provide any other source. Thank you.