Police cars drive down a narrow residential alley.

Police officers getting out of the vehicles hurry up the alley to inspect the scene, and soon after, a vehicle transporting a body arrives.

A report was received at around 11:00 AM today (the 27th) that a body was found in a pile of trash accumulated in a residential alley in Guro-gu, Seoul.

A waste collection worker affiliated with the district office discovered the body while collecting garbage and reported it.

[Witness: Someone brought and left a dead person, so police cars and the district office came... From what I saw, they covered the body with plastic like this. The police officers were running around and it was chaotic.]

A police control line was set up at the location where the body was found.

It was ascertained that the body was wrapped in plastic and newspapers when discovered.

The body was in a mummified state estimated to have been deceased for over a month, and it is reported that it is difficult to identify the person with the naked eye, though police estimate it to be an elderly male.

After completing an inspection of the body, the police plan to request an autopsy from the National Forensic Service to determine the exact identity and cause of death.

No distinct signs of criminal involvement were found on the exterior of the body, but police emergency arrested a man in his 60s and a man in his 80s around 4:00 PM on charges of abandoning a body and abetting the abandonment of a body, respectively.

Police plan to investigate the specific circumstances of the death and the motives for abandonment through suspect interrogations.

Reported by Kim Gyu-ri | Video by Yang Ji-hoon | Video Editing: Park Na-young | Produced by SBS Digital News