Court to decide on warrant for drug trafficker

Court to decide on warrant for drug trafficker

Park Wang-yeol, a 48-year-old South Korean repatriated from the Philippines, is taken to a district court in Uijeongbu, northeast of Seoul, on March 27, 2026, to attend a hearing on the legality of his arrest for drug smuggling and distribution charges. Park has been serving a 60-year prison sentence in the Philippines for the murders of three South Koreans in 2016 and arrived in the country on March 25. (Yonhap)

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