South Korea

Frog Boys: finally an update

November 28, 2025 By Alice

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 […]

Remembering the Frog Boys

March 1, 2017 By Alice

They are known as the Frog Boys and theirs is the Case of the Month for March, 2017. 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 […]

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