Search underway for Seoul mayor who left ‘will-like’ message to daughter before disappearing

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A massive police search is underway in South Korea after the mayor of Seoul went missing. His daughter said he left a phone message that sounded like a will prior to his disappearance.

Mayor Park Won-soon did not show up to work on Thursday and had cleared his schedule, Kim Ji-hyeong, a Seoul Metropolitan Government official, told the Associated Press. Park’s daughter said she became concerned after not being able to reach her father and said he had left “a will-like” verbal message before he disappeared.

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