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Cheongnyangni, Seoul, to petition the
people.Sotheparents’calltothepolice
enacted to make the search for missing
government for help. As a result of that
about their handicapped child was not
peoplemoreeffective.
meeting, the National Organization for
given any greater urgency that trying
Finding Missing Children and Family
to find other things, such as a missing
Argus: Wow! You are not only
was established. To help alleviate
bicycle, for instance. When I heard
helping these families, but also
problems caused from the suffering of
about this, I started tracking after the
helping make the laws and
having a family member missing, these
boy and helping the parents. We finally
procedures better. Doing all of this
families have united in order to help
found the corpse of the child close to
work, surely you must encounter
eachotherand,moreover,doalltheycan
the playground where the parents first
manydifficulties.Whattroublesdoes
to prevent the tragedy from happening
reportedhimmissing.
theorganizationfacenow?
again.
Also, related to this, the police have
had a lack of information about these
Na: First, money is always an urgent
cases. So the organization gathers
problem. Although we work for the
Argus: Is there anything that the
all the information about each case
good of people, money is hard to come
government and the police have not
to help the family. If there are any
by. We get very little, except for three
done well? The police are in charge
misunderstandings between the police
million won from the Dongdaemun-
of searching for the missing, and
and the families, we help the families
gu office every month, and the support
as you said before, the government
with the police so these cases can go
from families who have missing family
had been of no help. Related to this
forward.
members. As you can see, the office of
question, have there been cases in
ourorganizationisinacontainernextto
whichthepoliceandtheorganization
thestreet,andthisisbecauseofourlack
havelookedforthesamepersonsbut
Argus: Some systems really had
ofmoney.Nowwehaveelectricityinthe
cameupwithdifferentconclusions?
problems, as you mentioned. Are
container,butitishardtobear.Also,to
there things that have changed for
maintainactivities,weusealotofpaper
Na: To answer the first question, you
the better, thanks to your group and
might ask what the Korean government
to print up information about missing
theworkyouhavedonetryingtofind
did, for I said they were of no help.
people,andthattakesalotofmoneytoo.
missingpeople?
In the 1990s, the government agency
And there are more expenses besides
charged with finding the missing was
these.
Na: Over the years, we have worked
sparse. The agency took reports about
hard to change a lot of the procedures
Another difficulty is that we do not
alltypesofmissingthings.Themissing
and make them better. First, we
havetheresourcestoraiseourvoicesas
items, animals, and human beings were
petitioned the police to change how
strong as we would like to. Of course
all dealt with by one agency. So efforts
they go about searching for missing
focused on finding lost human beings
people. Now, the police have different
Argus
didnotexist.
departments for finding lost animals
The
Connected to this problem, there was
and property, and the search for
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Jun-kyu
a case that the police could have solved
missing people is concentrated in one
had they had the proper resources and
department. Also, in the past the police
Kim
focus. A boy mentally challenged was
looked for a missing person for only
lostandtheparentsoftheboycontacted
fifteen years, but that is too short of a
me. At that time, the organization was
time to solve many of the cases. So we
notyetsettled,soactionssuchashelping
petitioned the government to give more
the police or talking to the government
time to search for each person, and
about these problems could not be
now, each case is active for twenty-five
done, so I alone had to help find the
years. Also, we helped change the law
missing boy. First, the parents reported
about searching for missing people. We
the loss of their child to the police. But
have helped change two existing laws
as I mentioned before, the police at
in particular, in order to make them fit
that time handled all sorts of missing
better in our society. Plus, thanks to the
things and were not focused on missing
helpfrommanyfamilies,lawshavebeen
Na’sofficeisonthebrinkofbeingclosed.
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