An update in the case of the Frog Boys found in the Korean JoongAng Daily of November 26. 2025:
Woo Jong-woo, the father of Woo Cheol-won — one of the victims in the so-called “Frog Boys” case — has told the press that he heard from police.
A suspect has been identified in the murder case that has been unsolved for 20 years.
Case Summary
U Cheol-won (13), Jo Ho-yeon (12), Kim Yeong-gyu (11), Park Chan-in (10), and Kim Jong-sik (9) went to catch frogs near Mount Waryong, South Korea, on March 26, 1991. It was a national holiday so they didn’t have to go to schools. They never returned home.
Their remains were found in 2002 in an area they knew well. They were only 3.5 kilometers away from their homes.
The five boys were buried on March 25, 2004. Their families donated their skulls to medical science for research hoping to find out more about the trauma to their children.
Experts found two bullet holes in one child’s skull. Three from the five skulls had blunt-force trauma caused by an object/tool.
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Rest In Peace U Cheol-won, Jo Ho-yeon, Kim Yeong-gyu, Park Chan-in, and Kim Jong-sik.