Daejeon City was thrown into turmoil after a body was discovered ahead of the opening ceremony for the Gapcheon Ecological Lake Park in Doan-dong, Seo-gu, Daejeon, scheduled for September 27.
At around 7:10 a.m. on September 23, a report was made that someone appeared to have drowned in the lake in front of the fourth-floor observatory at Gapcheon Ecological Lake Park, prompting the dispatch of two patrol cars to the scene.
Prior to this, on September 21, a son residing in Gimhae, South Gyeongsang Province, reported his father missing to the police, stating, "My father has been struggling with debt issues recently and I have been unable to contact him."
The missing person is presumed to be a man born in 1967, and the police are currently investigating the exact circumstances.
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