[Kokkomu Steamed Review] The missing fiancé, the culprit is the man who had a crush on the bride-to-be? Kim Myeong-chul's disappearance

The story of 'that day' in history, which we should not forget, is told by Jang Hyun-seong, Jang Seong-gyu, and Jang Do-yeon of 'Jang Trio' (hereinafter referred to as 'Kkokomu').

For those who missed the main broadcast, or for those who watched the broadcast but want to chew on the contents again, SBS Entertainment News organizes it in one room.

episode that aired on the 29th

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Singer Heize, comedian Jeong Seong-ho, and actor Jung Young-joo appeared as story friends. (The review will be conducted in a non-talking mode to match the characteristics of 'Kokkomu'.)

Here, there is a man.

This man was specially interviewed for this 'Kokkomu' story.

He says he wants to turn back time.

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"Honestly, for 12 years, I haven't slept properly. Every time I sleep, I keep thinking about those days, and even when I turn off my complaints, I keep thinking about those days, so it was very difficult. I was scared. You will have to carry this heart for the rest of your life.”

This man, why is he living in pain with such regret?

I'll tell you the story from now on.

The date is Saturday, June 12, 2010.

It's the day of Korea's first game of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.

Myeong-cheol's house living in Seongnam was excited not because of the World Cup atmosphere, but because of the preparations for his eldest son Myeong-cheol's wedding ceremony next week.

This is the new groom, Myeong-cheol.

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At the time, 32-year-old Kim Myeong-cheol.

He works as a corporate training instructor.

He is 185 cm tall, graduated from a physical education college, and is good at sports.

Besides, he's totally in love with his girlfriend.

The name of the bride-to-be is Park Hyun-joo (pseudonym).

The two dated for two years before promising to get married.

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This afternoon, Myeong-cheol had an important meeting.

Jo Sang-pil (pseudonym), a friend of Hyun-joo, decided to introduce me to the lecturer position.

The prospective wife's network gave him a chance to make money.

Myeong-cheol told his family, "After the meeting, I will come to watch soccer with Hyun-joo," and then he left the house.

At 4:00 PM, Mr. Myeong-cheol put on a suit and went out to the meeting place.

It was already 8:30 at night.

But her fiancée, Hyeon-joo, started to get anxious because Myeong-cheol couldn't contact her.

He's my boyfriend who usually calls me dozens of times a day and texts me even when I go to the bathroom.

No news until football is over.

At 11 p.m., just then, I got a text message from Myung-cheol.

Seeing the text message, Hyeonju's expression froze.

Then he'll show you the text he received.

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"I'll just tell you, let's stop dating. There's a girl I meet after knowing your past. There's a difference between heaven and earth with you. I won't see you anymore."

What kind of lightning is this?

Suddenly, I got a call asking me to break up the engagement.

But after a while, I got a call from Myeong-cheol.

The voice over the phone wasn't Myung-cheol, it was a woman I didn't know.

The woman said, "I'm Myeong-cheol's girlfriend. Don't call her because she'll be diving with me," she said and hung up.

Hyunjoo called again, but he didn't answer.

Hyeon-joo immediately called Myeong-cheol's younger sister.

Her sister said that her brother hadn't come home yet, and rather asked if she was with her sister.

Hyeon-joo visited his friend Sang-pil, who had arranged a business meeting with Myeong-cheol during the day.

But Sangpil said that after the meeting with Myeongcheol, they broke up around 7pm.

The meeting was successful.

Chief Choi, introduced by Sangpil, liked Myeongcheol, and after agreeing to work together, he even exchanged a down payment on the spot.

By the way, my friend Sang-pil tells Hyun-joo strange things.

Myung-cheol said he had two cell phones, and he told me eyewitness accounts that cast doubt on his double life.

Myeong-cheol's message about breaking up the marriage, the phone call he had with the woman he claimed to be his lover, and even the story that he had two cell phones.

Hyunjoo was confused.

At that time, Myeong-cheol's mother also received a strange text message.

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“I’m sorry, mother. I won’t be able to go home for a while because something happened. If debt collectors come to my house, just say that I’m sorry that my child is immature. "

My son Myeong-cheol texted me that he would go into hiding for a while due to debt.

The son who was supposed to meet next week suddenly disappears?

It's strange.

The family immediately went to the police station and asked them to find Myeong-cheol.

But you can't help me

Myeongcheol is an adult.

If he doesn't have clear criminal charges, he's classified as a runaway.

The police said that there was a possibility that Myeong-cheol might have been diving with a real woman, and he told me to go home and wait.

He asked for location tracking, but he said that it was not possible because it was personal information.

The family had no choice but to keep calling Myeong-cheol.

But he doesn't just send and receive signals.

A few days later, an eyewitness who said he saw Myeong-cheol also appeared.

He said he saw me in a car with a woman near the meeting point.

Myungcheol, where did you go?

People around me were shocked by Myeong-cheol's disappearance.

He's not someone to get upset about money or women, he's a very upright young man.

To put it bluntly, his nickname was 'Pastor Kim'.

Also, co-workers pointed out that it was strange that Myeong-cheol received the down payment from Chief Choi first.

It is customary to receive money later after the training schedule is over, but at the first meeting, did you exchange the down payment as soon as you opened your eyes with Chief Choi?

My co-workers said this part didn't make sense.

There's something else strange.

These are text messages that Myeong-cheol sent to Hyeon-joo and his mother.

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This is a text message Myeong-cheol usually wrote.

Spaces are all done.

In the old letters, each word had a space, but in the letters that announced the disappearance, there were no blank spaces.

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And another one, the title 'Mother'.

Myung-cheol called me 'Mom', not 'Mother'.

The text messages sent by Myeong-cheol are completely different from the usual way of speaking and style.

not too weird

Hyeon-joo suspected one person.

Among the people who left comments on Mr. Hyeon-joo's minihompy, there was someone who wrote without spaces at all, like the text message sent by Mr. Myeong-cheol.

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That's right, Jo Sang-pil.

The person who arranged the meeting, which was the last destination before Myeong-cheol's disappearance, is the same person as Hyun-joo's friend.

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Hyeon-joo went to Jo Sang-pil again and asked.

Then, he said he really broke up at 7 and haven't seen him since then, he repeated the same thing.

Hyun-joo went to the police again and said that Jo Sang-pil was suspicious.

This time, the police just said the same thing: wait and wait for them, so go home and wait.

Then, I asked Chief Choi to investigate, but he said he couldn't be contacted.

Hyeon-joo and his family only grew frustrated.

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"He didn't listen to our story. I wanted to find him, but I felt like I was trapped in a wall. As the days went by, I kept getting nervous and anxious. I thought that if it was because of women or money, that would be better."

-Kim Yu-mi (pseudonym), Myeong-cheol's younger sister

, just like that, a day, two days, time passes.

But suddenly, the police station turned upside down.

On the 22nd day after Myung-cheol went missing, Chief Choi, who was with him at the meeting, showed up at the police station on his own feet.

Then he said he would confess without hesitation.

The story Director Choi told me was really shocking.

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The man who met 'Kokomu' in front and said 'I want to turn back time'.

That man is Chief Choi.

I heard the story from his mouth that day.

Choi Dae-sang (pseudonym), who was called 'Chief Choi', was working as a delivery man at a late-night restaurant at the age of 30 at the time.

The identity of Chief Choi, who said he would look for a lecturer position, was a lie.

Mr. Choi got to know Jo Sang-pil while making deliveries, and about two weeks before the disappearance incident, he received a request from Jo Sang-pil.

What Jo Sang-pil ordered Choi was a substitute prescription for sleeping pills.

Mr. Choi accepted Cho Sang-pil's request because he said he would give money, and he prescribed sleeping pills for me and delivered them to me.

But this wasn't the end.

Cho Sang-pil asked Mr. Choi to “wear a suit and come as I say.”

A few days later, Mr. Choi wore a suit and went out to the meeting place, but it was an entertainment place in broad daylight.

There, Mr. Choi became 'Chief Choi' and met Myeong-cheol.

Mr. Choi said at the time that Mr. Myeong-cheol went blind from a glass of beer and passed out within 10 minutes.

Jo Sang-pil took sleeping pills with Myeong-cheol's alcohol.

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"Then I realized (I took sleeping pills). I was so scared."

- Choi Dae-sang (pseudonym), Cho Sang-

pil, chief of staff at the time of the incident, asked Mr. Choi to move Mr. Myung-cheol, who had collapsed, with him.

Mr. Choi carried Myeong-cheol on his back and went to a nearby interior shop as Cho Sang-pil ordered.

Arriving in front of the store, Jo Sang-pil opened the door with the key and laid Myeong-cheol on a long sofa inside the store.

Cho Sang-pil told Mr. Choi to stop going, and Mr. Choi got out of there and took a taxi.

He realized he had left his phone at the store by the way.

Mr. Choi went back to the store and knocked on the door.

After a while, Jo Sang-pil opened the door of the shop a little bit and said to Mr. Choi, 'I'll find your cell phone later and bring it to you', and he closed the door again.

In the end, Mr. Choi couldn't find his phone and turned around.

And the next day, he heard that Myeong-cheol was missing.

“I saw him fall and even see him moved. At that time, a lot of thoughts went back and forth in my head. I also had bad thoughts. Look at people who are similar, 'Huh? You look like Myeong-cheol Kim?'

It will happen like this."

- Choi Dae-sang (pseudonym),

after Myeong-cheol, chief of staff at the time of the incident, went missing, it was also Choi who saw Myeong-cheol near the meeting place.

When Jo Sang-pil said that Choi had seen someone similar to Myeong-cheol, he made him tell the police about the sighting.

Jo Sang-pil tried to confuse the police investigation.

Mr. Choi said he felt guilty towards Myeong-cheol and his family.

So it was late, but he said that he was forced to confess.

and the investigation began to speed up with Choi's confession.

The police immediately arrested Jo Sang-pil.

Cho Sang-pil still denied the crime, saying that he broke up with Myeong-cheol after the meeting.

Detectives went in to investigate the surroundings.

I asked the nearby merchants if they had seen the person carried that day.

Then the owner of the restaurant across the street remembered.

It was the day of the World Cup football match, and someone said he saw someone being carried on his back with a droop and said, 'I haven't even started playing football yet, but I'm already drunk.'

The restaurant owner said they went into the interior house.

Consistent with Mr. Choi's confession.

A nearby real estate agent also remembered Cho Sang-pil.

They searched for the store very quickly and put up a strange condition.

The conditions were 'First, water must come out, no matter how expensive it is,' and 'Second, no matter how noisy it is until late at night, it must be okay.'

So the real estate agent introduced me to that interior shop.

The side of the shop was empty, upstairs was a warehouse, and downstairs was a dance studio.

Cho Sang-pil looked at the conditions and said he signed the contract right on the spot.

This interior shop he got, there must be something going on inside.

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The detectives hurriedly went inside the interior shop.

The store is empty.

But there is water on the floor of the empty shop.

Someone has been cleaning the water.

People in the nearby mall said in unison that the store had been strange lately.

Testimonies continued from people who said they saw water up to their ankles in the store, and people who saw water flowing from inside the store to the outside.

At the time, the number and usage of this building said the same thing.

The water consumption of this building, which was 40 tons in April and 44 tons in May, was 89 tons in June, twice as much as the previous month.

In order to use 40 tons more water, they say they have to keep the water running for 88 hours with a small faucet in the store.

What was Jo Sang-pil trying to erase with such an enormous amount of water?

Immediately, the CSI was dispatched and ran a floor-to-ceiling luminol test looking for blood.

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result?

Although it was a very small amount, Myungcheol's blood and hair were found inside the store.

But since bloodstains appeared, Jo Sang-pil changed his words.

It's true that he brought Myeong-cheol to the store, but when he woke up, Myeong-cheol suddenly quarreled with him and said, 'What's your relationship with my fiancée?'

Then he pushed Myeong-cheol, who claimed he fell and hit his head on the wall, bleeding.

So he fought with Myeong-cheol and went outside for a while, but Myeong-cheol had already disappeared from the store.

However, the bloodstains found in the store were telling us something different from Cho Sang-pil's claim.

Myung-cheol is 185 cm tall, and his bloody hair was found on a wall about 170 cm high.

Just looking at this, as Cho Sang-pil said, he could have really struggled and fell and hit his head against the wall.

But if you look at the 3 bloodstains found at the bottom of the wall, it looks like blood splattered.

If there had been a physical fight as Cho Sang-pil said, the blood would have flowed downward.

But these bloodstains don't drip.

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This means that the blood splattered horizontally while the person was lying down.

In other words, it is highly likely that Myeong-cheol, who lost consciousness after taking sleeping pills, suffered something while lying down.

The police questioned him again, but Cho Sang-pil's answer was the same.

He was still ignorant.

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Cho Sang-pil proposed a business meeting six days before Myung-cheol went missing, and 3 days ago, he signed a contract for an interior shop in a hurry.

And the next day, I ordered Mr. Choi to buy sleeping pills, and just two days later, Mr. Myung-cheol went missing.

Why on earth did Cho Sang-pil prepare so hurriedly and meticulously?

The reason for the crime was infatuation.

Nine days before Mr. Myeong-cheol went missing, his fiancée Mr. Hyeon-joo and Jo Sang-pil met.

And at this time, Hyunjoo said that she would get married soon.

In the meantime, Jo Sang-pil had a crush on Hyeon-joo.

It turns out that Jo Sang-pil made up everything from the strange woman's phone call to Hyeon-joo to the story that Myeong-cheol had two cell phones.

Then, where the hell is Myeong-cheol?

The police followed Jo Sang-pil's whereabouts and confirmed that he had visited a nearby waste disposal site the day after the water cleaning.

The police searched the waste dump with a large force, but found no clues.

In the end, the prosecution indicted Jo Sang-pil and Choi Dae-sang for assault in confinement, not murder.

Myeong-cheol's body has not been found, so it is impossible to confirm whether he is alive or dead.

So if you are charged with murder, you may be acquitted due to lack of evidence.

As a result of the trial, Jo Sang-pil was sentenced to 15 years in prison in the first trial, and Choi Dae-sang was sentenced to 1 year in prison.

However, Jo Sang-pil appealed, saying that it was not a murder and that he did not intentionally cause him to disappear, but that the sentence was excessive.

In the second trial, Jo Sang-pil was sentenced to 7 years in prison.

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“I thought the verdict was too weak. I think it was an unimaginable judgment for someone who took a life too deliberately. It was too scary. I have nowhere to turn to to help."

-Kim Yu-mi (pseudonym), Myung-cheol's younger sister

The pain left behind by the family.

The people of the world were also outraged by this incident.

But over time, it was slowly forgotten.

Then one day, a phone call came from the Gyeonggi Provincial Police Agency's Gwangsu-daero.

The person who answered the phone was detective Jung Chang-ho, a 20-year veteran who is called the 'master of insurance crime investigation'.

The caller was a former police officer working as an insurance company investigator.

The senior asked Detective Jung if he could investigate a troublesome case suspected of insurance fraud.

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A young man died in an office run by private loan thugs, and they claimed about 1.7 billion won in insurance money.

The fact that 1.7 billion won in death insurance is paid when you die despite no regular income, and the fact that the beneficiary is a third party, not a family member, is suspicious.

The insurance company picked up these suspicious parts as a result of the review, and contacted Detective Jung to investigate.

Detective Jung's instincts were activated immediately.

When I asked who the beneficiary of the insurance money was, he said it was his older brother who lived with the dead man.

His insurance beneficiary name is Jaepil Cho (pseudonym).

That's right, Jo Sang-pil's twin brother.

I will show you an article in the newspaper of December 20, 1993.

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“On the 20th, the Dongdaemun Police Station in Seoul requested an arrest warrant for the murder of twin brothers in the 3rd grade of middle school who stabbed the gym owner to death after a dispute. stabbed to death."

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The twin brothers mentioned in the article, Jo Sang-pil and Jo Jae-pil.

He had a history of committing murder 17 years ago in his third year of middle school.

Detective Jung is in trouble.

It didn't seem like a normal case.

"They're not normal kids. They're quite criminals, and they're also involved in Mr. Kim Myung-chul's case. As a detective, you get a sense of it. As long as there's a detective, a murderer who puts people's lives as collateral will really be pursued to the end and the law will be resolved." I think we should bring it to the referee."

-Detective Jeong Chang-ho, who at the time belonged to the Gwangsu University of the Gyeonggi Provincial Police Agency,

started looking into the case from the beginning with the youngest detective Kim Ji-man.

The incident happened a year before Mr. Kim Myung-cheol went missing.

May 22, 2009, 4:30 in the morning.

A call was received to the 119 situation room.

A man is lying naked in the bathroom on the third floor of a mall.

The man is 30-year-old Park Min-soo (pseudonym).

he was already dead

He went to take a shower at dawn, but he didn't come even after a long time.

The reporters were seniors who lived together.

One of them was Cho Sang-pil.

An autopsy revealed that Minsu's cause of death was carbon monoxide poisoning.

He died of carbon monoxide poisoning from a gas water heater.

However, during the autopsy, something unusual was discovered.

The sleeping pill ingredient came out of the dead Minsu's body.

Sleeping pills were also used in Myeong-cheol's case, right?

Of course, that's the questionable part.

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Detective Jiman Kim went to the bathroom where the incident took place.

But he got goosebumps as soon as he entered the bathroom.

The strangest thing is that all the windows and doors in the bathroom are sealed with silicone.

Even weirder, it was hidden inside a gas water heater.

I found a sharp cut on the valve.

It's a safety device that prevents the generation of carbon monoxide if there's a problem with the water heater, but it's cut like this.

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Immediately after the incident, the police called the twin brother to investigate.

However, they answered "Minsu did that" to all the questions.

It is said that Min-soo did the insurance, installed the gas water heater, and made Jo Jae-pil the beneficiary of the insurance money.

Since the dead Minsu answered all the questions, the investigation couldn't progress any further.

The insurance murder is suspected, but there is no direct evidence that the twin brother killed Minsu.

In the end, it was concluded that Minsu suffocated while taking sleeping pills and taking a shower.

did not give up and started the investigation again from the beginning.

First of all, I looked at Park Min-soo's insurance details.

Minsu earns about 1 million won a month, but he was paying 1.58 million won in monthly insurance premiums.

And he said, 10 months before the accident, he had 3 death insurance policies, but only the death insurance policy, which can come out a lot if he dies.

Looking through the records, it turns out that someone was paying for Minsu's insurance.

It was my grandfather's pen.

Detective Jung found another clue.

Three days after Min-su died, there was a person who spoke on the phone with an insurance agent and identified himself as the policyholder, Park Min-soo.

How do dead people call?

The main character of this voice was Cho Sang-pil.

Even the last insurance that Min-soo bought was that Cho Sang-pil impersonated Park Min-soo over the phone and bought the insurance.

The twins' statement that 'Park Min-soo took out the insurance himself' turned out to be false.

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“This insurance relationship is insurance contracted for the purpose of murder,” he concluded. The tool used in this murder, who installed the instantaneous water heater, and I became immersed in collecting evidence for the murder.

- Detective Jeong Chang-ho, then Detective

Kim, who belonged to the Gwangsu University of the Gyeonggi Provincial Police Agency, found out how the gas water heater was purchased.

He reviewed Park Min-soo's call records, but there was no number related to the singer's water heater.

I also looked through his twin's cell phone history, but I couldn't find it here either.

Detective Kim went through his twin brother's office phone calls.

Among them, I found a landline number starting with 031 and called it right away.

It was a gas water heater dealer.

I finally found a gas water heater dealer.

Detective Kim immediately went to the water heater store and asked if they had ever sold a water heater in Jungdong, Seongnam.

But the boss said he couldn't remember because he had done so many deliveries.

Detective Kim showed me a picture of the twin brother.

Then he said he remembered this person.

Because, usually, they even install the water heater, but I remembered that only this person said he would install it himself.

The owner of the water heater store said that the water heater's safety device had not been cut, and that it could not be sold.

In the end, the proof came out that it was the twin brother who bought the water heater, not Minsu.

It wasn't just this.

We also secured statements that her twins went around telling people around them, "There's something going to happen soon," and "There's a big insurance money coming soon."

All of the conspiracy circumstances have been confirmed that the twin brothers purchased and installed a gas water heater, fed Minsu sleeping pills to sleep, and pretended to have suffocated in the shower.

What's even creepier is that the twin brothers personally held a funeral and sprinkled bone powder for Minsu, who had no connection.

Friends were shocked by this incident.

Among them was Choi Dae-sang, a friend of Min-soo.

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"I heard that Minsu died in the shower in his apartment, but I found out that he died in the bathroom of the twins' office. I was so confused when I heard that. It's not a real person. Everyone said that. 'You're next. 'Called."

-Choi Sang-sang (pseudonym)

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Prosecutors finally charged the twins with murder.

The twin brothers denied the crime even at trial, but the court sentenced Jo Sang-pil to life imprisonment and Cho Jae-pil to 20 years in prison.

The evidence and statements that Detectives Jung and Kim meticulously collected were accepted by the court.

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"It was so good. I still remember it vividly. (The investigation period) I remember about 1 year and 6 months, but it is the most unforgettable case.

- Detective Kim Ji-man, detective in charge of re-investigation of twin insurance murders

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"It's rewarding to show that no one is exempt from violent crime cases."

-Detective Jeong Chang-ho, detective in charge of re-investigation of twin insurance murders

has been solved, but I couldn't help but be happy.

Because the case of Myeong-cheol's disappearance has not been solved.

Upon hearing the news, Myeong-cheol's family came and asked me to solve the case as well.

Detective Kim, who could not turn away from that earnest request, took time out to look for it whenever a report came in, but there was no profit.

“I think I felt very sorry and frustrated. Since the case had already been dealt with (in another office) and a final judgment had been received, it was not possible to re-investigate the case at the police stage. Officially, unless important evidence comes out, the case You can't investigate it again, so I went to look for clues."

-Detective Kim Ji-man, detective in charge of re-investigation of twin insurance murders

Twelve years have passed like that.

For 12 years, no one in my family talked about Mr. Myung-cheol.

because it hurts so much

Each had to live buried in his heart.

"After my brother's disappearance, my family didn't talk about him to each other on purpose. I loved him the most and depended on him a lot, so it was hard for my family to accept that. Never, even on my birthday, I talked about it. I never shared."

-Kim Yu-mi (pseudonym), Myeong-cheol's younger sister

A state of disappearance whose life and death are unknown.

Still, Myungcheol's family still has hope.

Just in case, I thought that I might hear the news of my son and the story of my brother.

Myeong-cheol's parents wanted to know if their son was alive or dead, so they allowed the story of 'Kokomu'.

Lastly, Myeong-cheol's father had something he really wanted to say.

“Myeong-cheol was the pride of our family. He was 185 cm tall, so he was easily spotted from far away. I still look at tall young kids walking down the street, wondering if it was Myeong-cheol, and look at them again and again. Through this broadcast, I have one wish. If there is, you will meet Myeong-cheol. Since you still don't know if he's dead or alive, maybe you can find out anything through the broadcast. I hope that even a small report will come in."

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Reporter Kang Seon-ae (Reporter Kang Seon-ae     

, SBS Entertainment News)