The cremated ashes of the student in his 20s, identified only by his surname Park, arrived on a Korean Air flight at Incheon International Airport at 8:04 a.m., about some 74 days after he was found dead on Aug. 8 in the Southeast Asian country.
A joint autopsy on his body, conducted by South Korean and Cambodian investigators and forensic experts, took place earlier this week after it had been kept at a temple in Phnom Penh since his death.
The three-hour autopsy there found no signs of external or internal injuries, but further investigations including drug tests will be conducted to determine the exact cause of his death before the remains are handed over to his family.
Park had told his family on July 17 that he was attending an expo before traveling to Cambodia. He was later confined and tortured in a local crime area known as "Wench," and his body, showing signs of torture, was found in a car in Kampot Province on Aug. 8.
His death has belatedly revealed a series of online job scams and phishing schemes targeting South Korean citizens, which often involve kidnappings, detentions, and brutal torture by sprawling criminal rings in Cambodia, prompting the government to send a task force there last week.
* This article, published by Aju Business Daily, was translated by AI and edited by AJP.
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