韩国警方宣布将重新审查过去三年结案的约31万起失踪人口案件，审查工作预计将于11月完成 1。此举源于一起引发全国关注的丑闻：一名济州西部警察署警官因涉嫌伪造记录以关闭两起失踪案件而被逮捕，这两名失踪者后来均被发现死亡 1。针对该事件，总统李在明已下令展开调查，并要求警方制定改革计划 1。内务部长尹昊重于周三就此事公开道歉 1。
涉事警官被指控在5月中旬接到报案约两个半小时后，关闭了37岁女子张美兰的失踪案件 1。张美兰的遗体在其失踪104天后，于距其住处约400米的棕榈农场内被发现 1。此外，该警官还被指控在7月初关闭了一名60多岁男子的失踪案件，该男子的遗体于周六被发现 1。
目前，韩国法律仅将儿童、自闭症患者以及失智或精神障碍者正式认定为失踪，其他成年人则被归类为离家出走，导致警方无法自动使用定位和紧急警报等工具 1。去年韩国报告超过70,000人失踪，其中99.7%的案件未进行全面搜查即结案，而在这些未全面搜查的案件中，共有931人被发现死亡 1。过去十年间，政客们提出了超过10项旨在扩大对失踪成年人搜查权限的法案，但均未通过 1。
South Korean police will re-examine approximately 310,000 closed missing person cases from the past three years following a scandal involving fabricated records 1. The review, which is expected to be completed by November, was initiated after an officer from the Western Jeju Police Station was arrested for allegedly forging documents to close the cases of two missing individuals who were later found dead 1. In response to the nationwide attention the scandal has drawn, President Lee Jae-myung has ordered an investigation and directed the police to develop a reform plan 1. Furthermore, Interior Minister Yoon Ho-jung publicly apologized on Wednesday 1.
The arrested officer is accused of closing the case of 37-year-old Jang Mi-ran merely two and a half hours after receiving a report in mid-May 1. Her body was discovered 104 days after she went missing at a palm farm about 400 meters from her home 1. The officer is also alleged to have closed the missing person report of a man in his 60s in early July, whose remains were found on Saturday 1.
Last year, more than 70,000 people were reported missing in South Korea, and 99.7% of these cases were closed without a full-scale search 1. Out of the cases closed without comprehensive investigations, 931 people were found dead 1. Currently, South Korean law only officially recognizes children, individuals with autism, and those with dementia or mental disabilities as missing persons 1. Other adults are classified as runaways, which prevents police from automatically using tracking and emergency alert systems 1. Despite politicians proposing over 10 bills in the past decade to expand search powers for missing adults, none have been enacted 1.
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