Police find his body on a mountain near Seoul a day after his daughter reported him missing
Seoul mayor Park Won-soon, who was considered to be potential South Korean presidential candidate, has been found dead. He was 64.
If Park does prove to have killed himself he would be the highest-profile South Korean politician to do so since former president Roh Moo-hyun, who jumped off a cliff in 2009 after being questioned over corruption allegations involving family members. Park had a similar background to Moon as a student activist in the days of South Korea's military dictatorship and later a human rights lawyer.
After completing his studies, Park went into law and defended many political activists in the 1980s and 1990s. It grew into one of the largest NGOs in South Korea and launched the Beautiful Stores, a chain of charity shops modelled after Britain's Oxfam shops.
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