Belatedly paying attention to the controversy over reports of discrimination against people of color… U.S. broadcast conveys condolences
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(Los Angeles = Yonhap News) Correspondent Yunseop Jeong = A Korean woman in her 30s from the United States has been confirmed to have died four months after her disappearance.
On the 28th (local time), the San Bernardino County Medical Examiner’s Office in San Bernardino County, California, announced that the remains of 30-year-old Korean-American Lauren Cho were found near the place of disappearance.
Cho, from New Jersey, USA, went missing on June 28.
He traveled to Yucca Valley, California, with his boyfriend and other acquaintances, and his whereabouts were unknown while renting an Airbnb home.
The last acquaintances who saw Cho told the police that they saw him heading to the desert without food or water and without a cell phone at the time of his disappearance.
On the 9th, the investigative authorities discovered the remains of unknown identity while conducting a search for Cho, and after an autopsy, the death of Cho was officially announced on the same day.
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Authorities said they were analyzing the cause of death and had no further information to disclose.
The San Bernardino County Sheriff said the cause of death has not been confirmed and is “awaiting the results of the poison analysis.”
Cho’s case recently drew attention from the media and Americans after the disappearance of Gabby Puttito, a white woman in her 20s.
This is because, as the major American media continued to write a special report on the Putito case, critics were raised that the case of disappearance of people of color was being ignored along with the point of ‘disappearing white woman syndrome’.
NBC broadcast its condolences, saying, “The disappearance of Mr. Cho, which drew attention again due to the racial discrimination controversy surrounding the report of the missing person, has led to a sad ending.”
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