Korean Tourist: Missing, Presumed Dead!

To the corrupt ex police commissioners and the current acting police commissioner: Why haven’t you interviewed Mr Wolfie in connection with Jae Hyeon Kim’s disappearance?

A number of readers have contacted the Moderators wondering why New Zeelend hasn’t yet written about the disappearance of Korean tourist Jae Hyeon Kim. We had intended to write a few words at a later date, but here are a few details about Mr Kim’s disappearance:

MISSING, PRESUMED DEAD: Korean tourist Jae Hyeon Kim went DINZWAT [disappeared in New Zealand without a trace] in 2003.

Jae Hyeon Kim, 25, was last seen in Alan’s Backpackers in Nelson. His family reported him missing in May 2004 after he failed to return to Korea from New Zealand. Police revealed that his cash card was used for a transaction at a Westport bar and cafe in September 2003, three weeks after he left the flea motel in Nelson.

Five years on, although the police have reopened the file into Mr Kim’s disappearance, they haven’t revealed why Mr Wolfie has not been treated as a suspect.

Related Links and background information:

• Bush search in missing person cold case

• How Many More Tourists Did You Kill Today, Mr Wolfie?
• Eight tourists hurt in West Coast crash
• Three Four dead in overnight road accidents

• Another Tourist Killed in New Zealand
• One in 10 Kiwis Wants Out
• Update: Irish Tourist Mugged and Battered

• Tourist couple kidnapped at gunpoint, robbed, woman raped, husband assaulted .
• Men guilty of kidnapping tourist
• Skinheads jailed for beating tourist
• Tourist abducted and robbed
• Backpacker rapist sentenced to 7 years

• Tourist abducted and robbed
• German Tourist’s Murder was Preventable
• English tourist’s campervan set on fire in the carpark
• The two kidnappers who beat and raped the Dutch tourist only get 10 and 6 years
• Father urges New Zealand pilot to face music over tourist’s death

• You Want to Work in New Zealand?
• Truth About ‘100% Pure New Zealand’ Advertising Campaign
• Stop New Zealand Committing Eco-Terrorism!
• Assault victim tells of terrifying ordeal
• Increased violence in NZ: What are the tourists coming here for?

• New Zealand Tourism Claims More Victims
• “Lousy NZ drivers blamed for high death toll”
• New Zealand: A Tourist Deathtrap
• South American tourists were beaten and robbed
• An Open Letter to New Zealand Prime Minister

New Zealand: A Tourist Deathtrap!

Welcome to New Zealand!
And will you be playing New Zealand Roulette, or have you booked other games?

You are twice more likely to be killed on New Zealand roads than in Germany, and probably up to 1,000 times more likely to fall victim to a serious assault!
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10493084

[Note: NZ government agencies have declined to provide the relevant stats on the numbers of assaults and murders of foreigners.]

A 25-year-old Korean national was killed on NZ State Highway 2
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4405769a11.html

Two Koreans were injured in tourist bus collision
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4405812a11.html

Three tourists hurt in vicious Queenstown street attack: “It was a very serious assault,” police said. http://www.stuff.co.nz/4405769a11.html

Road Death toll: Month-to-date (Land Transport New Zealand)
As at 18 Feb 2008 : 28 deaths
Same time last year: 10 deaths
[Data retrieved on Feb. 18, 2008 from the URL: http://www.ltsa.govt.nz/research/toll.html%5D

Road Death toll: Month-to-date (Land Transport New Zealand)
As at 20 Feb 2008 : 27 deaths (!)
Same time last year: 14 deaths
[Data retrieved on Feb. 20, 2008 from the URL: http://www.ltsa.govt.nz/research/toll.html%5D

[Caution: NZ govt. statistics ARE doctored! New Zealand is probably the only country in the world where the dead are statistically resurrected for aesthetic reasons!]

Links to recent tourist fatalities in NZ:
New Zealand: A Tourist Deathtrap
Canadian Tourist Murdered?
Murdered in New Zealand in the Prime of Her Life

A 57-year-old American tourist fell to his death after missing unmarked “path” in Mt Cook
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4394988a11.html

A British tourist killed in bus crash, fate of the other seriously injured tourists unknown
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4384845a11.html
http://www.stuff.co.nz/thepress/4386040a6009.html

Roads claim nine lives during weekend
http://nz.news.yahoo.com/080204/3/3ua9.html

One person is dead and two seriously injured in a tourist bus collision yesterday.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4354764a11.html

Crash raises road toll to 11 for January
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4342068a10.html

Tourist bus crashes with van, 1 dead.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4356238a6570.html

Three female Korean tourists, aged 18, 19, and 34, had their right arms amputated after the crash. Another passenger suffered a fractured eye socket.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4322877a11.html

Eight Chinese tourists were taken to hospital, one with serious injuries.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4240038a23955.html

West Coast bus crash injures 21 overseas tourists [with 10 receiving severe injuries such as fractured limbs.]
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4273025a6047.html

One tourist was killed and Eight others are in a critical condition after a head-on crash in Waikato. http://www.stuff.co.nz/4342236a11.html

22 foreign tourists run for their lives after their bus catches fire
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10485349

A 46-year-old Malaysian woman was raped in Auckland
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10492627