Police Officer Under Investigation for Derisive Blog Posts on Unidentified Corpses and Leaked Data

[Anchor]

An active-duty police officer is facing a police investigation over posts and photos uploaded to a personal blog. The blog was publicly accessible to anyone, and contained content trivializing unattended death cases as well as confidential police materials.

Reporter Bae Seong-jae has the details.

[Reporter]

This is the portal site blog of Police Officer A, who belongs to a police station in Seoul.

In July 2023, in a post titled "The Day the Gates of Heaven Opened," Officer A wrote, "Is there a shortage of people in heaven? Three consecutive dead bodies," and "The last one was a badly decomposed body, so I equipped two masks," attaching a selfie of himself wearing overlapping masks with his eyes rolled up.

The term used is a police slang word referring to an unattended death case. The post appeared to document his response to three consecutive unattended death calls, including a scene where severe decomposition was underway.

He subsequently trivialized the death scenes with descriptions such as, "It was the worst smell ever, so I gagged," and "I thought I wouldn't even be able to swallow my food, but I inhaled gamjatang (pork bone stew) in an instant."

In the same month, a stabbing rampage occurred in Sillim-dong, Seoul, leaving one person dead and three injured. Three months later, Officer A posted details from a confidential interview with the Sillim-dong stabbing suspect under the title "Investigation Training Review," writing that "the suspects of the Seohyun and Gwanaksan stabbing rampages were the same in having low self-esteem and being pathetic."

In addition, while disclosing police work-related details such as nighttime voluntary overtime pay, he described it as a "high-yield, short-term honey part-time job."

As the blog was open to the public, a complaint was filed against Officer A with the Seoul Southern District Prosecutors Office last June on charges including the leakage of official secrets and defamation.

According to SBS reporting, the blog was subsequently set to private, and the Seoul Geumcheon Police Station took over the case last month to launch a formal investigation.

The police plan to summon Officer A soon to investigate the circumstances under which the controversial posts were uploaded to the public blog and whether information acquired during actual investigations and training processes was included.

The police station to which Officer A belongs plans to proceed with disciplinary inspection procedures depending on the results of the investigation.

The reporting team made multiple attempts to contact him for his stance, but Officer A did not respond.

(Camera: Kim Seung-tae | Video Editing: Kim Yun-seong | Design: Hwang Se-yeon)
※ Please note: This article was translated by AI and may contain errors.