Police said they do not suspect foul play.
Sure. High profile judges frequently drop dead without warning... Nothing to see here
this post was submitted on 07 May 2026
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It was probably just stress. /s
considering SK people has been known for its high suicide rate, its probably suicide....~~with 13 gunshots on the back of the head.~~
edit: it seems like he got the russian "suddenly fell out of nowhere" treatment 😐
Ah. Trevor Moore's Favorite.
The Manhwas i read are actually completely realistic? Wowzers! Dudes out here with a private military unit just killing anyone who displeases them.
The South Korean National Intelligence Service (NIS) has been involved in several controversial cases in the past, including the assassination of President Park Chung-hee.
In some crime themed manhwa, the NIS is also portrayed as a terrifying organization in the eyes of the police and the public.
Probably went to sleep with the fan on.
2 fans to the back of the head.
Inside you there are two Koreas. Both are hell.
wasn't south Korea originally not even a democracy , but a collection of Ruling Elite families backed by the US ?
Standard US client state then?
so they modeled it after the US?
Back to being a banana Republic. Guess there was a modern a decade or two
You can jump out of one without running through mines
Police stated that a suicide note was found on the clothes Judge Shin was wearing at the time of his death. The note reportedly contained the message, “I’m sorry. I’m leaving on my own.” It is said that the note did not mention the trial related to Ms. Kim’s case. However, Judge Shin was known to have recently confided in acquaintances about stress caused by the trial. A legal industry insider said, “He might have felt a heavy burden due to handling a case that drew significant public attention.”
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Police believe he fell to his death after entering the rooftop after 5:05 p.m. on the previous day (5th). However, as there is no CCTV installed on the rooftop of the Seoul High Court building, police are still determining the exact time of death.
Handwriting analysis would be appropriate, and would settle doubts if some do exist.
Sane theory: the judge took his own life from the stretch.
Reasonably suspicious theory: he was murdered.
Comedy of errors theory: the suicide note is entirely genuine and sincer. The judge did intend to kill himself. However, he was murdered before he could carry it out!
To me, the line “I’m sorry. I’m leaving on my own.” implies that he was given the option of suicide, or something far worse, and he made his choice.
Sure. But it's much funnier to imagine an assassin going to great lengths to plot a murder, when if they had just done absolutely nothing, the result would be exactly the same.
Fair enough. Since we don't really know, we can choose any plausible explanation.
Handwriting analysis
Is a sketchy field on a good day. My handwriting would go to shit if I was banging something out moments before my death, one way or another.
The Republic of Samsung--an outpost of the USA. Heavy corruption is to be expected.
Not everything is about the USofA. There are literally hundreds of other countries in the world. This is an article about Korea written by a British media outlet. Please
Is S.Korea not an outpost of the USofA?
FTA: "Police said they do not suspect foul play".
Is that the usual news-speak for avoiding the word 'suicide', or corrupt police making things up?
Maybe.....Some countries, like Japan, have an extremely high murder conviction rate. They do this by not labeling it a murder unless they find the murderer and enough evidence.
I don't know if that is the same case in SK, but it could be an admin think until they know more.
Japan, have an extremely high murder conviction rate. They do this by not labeling it a murder unless they find the murderer and enough evidence.
Press X to doubt that their false conviction rate is actually significantly lower
They do this by not labeling it a murder unless they find the murderer and enough evidence.
See that makes too much sense. A crazier theory would be more fun!
I know! It turns out that Japanese people are just really, really hard to kill. They're ultra durable. Must be the food or something. The murder rate is low because it's just incredibly physically difficult to kill a Japanese person with violence. In fact, Japan didn't actually have an army in WW2. It was just one Japanese guy that went nuts and started rampaging across the Western Pacific. It took the atomic bomb to finally stop him.
Why else did we build the bomb? To flatten cities? No. That's just what it took to stop the bastard!
They do this by not labeling it a murder unless they find the murderer and enough evidence.
They also have a court system comically stacked in favor of the prosecution.
Uh, no, that would be no foul play. It means being murdered.
Maybe they don’t suspect it, cause they know it?
This has been the proper phrasing since the beginning of police and newspapers.