一 | Most missing adults are found quickly, but gaps in the system can have deadly consequences Police search for Jang Mi-ran, a 37-year-old reported missing in May, at a palm farm in Hallim-eup, Jeju Island. Jang was found dead Monday. (Yonhap)The death of Jang Mi-ran after her missing-person case was allegedly closed on false grounds has renewed scrutiny of South Korea’s system for finding missing adults.South Korea tracks missing-person reports involving adults, but ordinary adult cases are not covered by the same legal framework that allows nationwide alerts, certain forms of location tracking and DNA testing for children, people with specified disabilities and people with dementia.More than 70,000 adults were reported missing each year between 2022 and 2025. Most cases were resolved quickly, with 89.4 percent closed within a day last year and 99 percent within a month, according to National Police Agency data.Of the 70,591 adult missing-person cases closed in 2025, 931 involved people who were found dead.Jang’s case has drawn attention to what can happen when a case is closed before a missing person’s safety has been confirmed.A Jeju police officer surnamed Bu is accused of falsely telling Jang’s boyfriend and family that she was safe but did not want to be found. Police have said they found no records showing that Bu contacted her.Bu is accused of making a similar false claim in another missing-person case involving a man in his 60s, who was also later found dead.The cases have revived a long-running debate over whether police need stronger legal authority to search for missing adults, and how far those powers should extend without infringing on privacy.Gaps in adult casesJang’s cousin reportedly went to Seoul’s Nowon Police Station on July 19 to request another search for her, about two months after Bu allegedly told the family that Jang had been contacted and was safe.Nowon officials reportedly questioned whether Jang, as an adult, might simply have left voluntarily.The high rate of quick case closures has raised concern that some adult cases are treated as routine disappearances. Bu handled and closed 298 missing-person cases during roughly 17 months on a missing-person team.Meanwhile, the number of cases ending in death is not insignificant. Between 2016 and 2025, 13,639 missing adults were eventually found dead, an average of about 1,364 a year. Thousands of long-term cases also remain unsolved. Police search for Jang Mi-ran, a 37-year-old reported missing in May, at a harbor in Jeju Island. Jang was found dead on Monday. (Yonhap)Police have fewer tools in ordinary adult cases.Nationwide missing-person alerts are generally sent out only for minors, people with certain disabilities and people with dementia. Of the 3,126 people found last year under that system, 696, or 22.3 percent, were located after reports from members of the public who had seen an alert.Police searches and investigations accounted for 39.2 percent of discoveries, according to a report jointly submitted by the National Police Agency and the Ministry of Health and Welfare.Ordinary missing adults generally do not qualify for such alerts.Police have used DNA testing since 2004 to identify missing children and other eligible groups. Ordinary adult cases are not covered by the same DNA collection and comparison framework.The scale of adult disappearances is also larger. About 70,800 adult missing-person reports were filed in 2025, more than twice the roughly 29,600 involving children.Legislative pushSouth Korea enacted the Act on the Protection and Support of Missing Children and Others in 2005, establishing the legal basis for many of the search tools used today. There is no equivalent comprehensive law for ordinary missing adults.Lawmakers have made repeated attempts to fill that gap.A bill proposed in 2024 by Rep. Lim Ho-seon of the Democratic Party of Korea would establish a separate information system for missing adults and give police clearer authority to obtain location and travel information.The proposal remains pending at the National Assembly alongside similar bills.Supporters argue that broader powers could help police act more quickly when an adult is in danger. Opponents warn that the same powers could be used to track people who have deliberately chosen to leave home or cut off contact.Adults generally have the right to decide where they live and whom they remain in contact with, making the issue more complicated than cases involving children or vulnerable people.Police can already obtain location information in some cases involving signs of imminent danger. The unresolved question is whether that authority should be expanded for missing adults more broadly.。 太原8月24日电 (记者 李庭耀)24日，在中共山西省委宣传部、山西省人民政府新闻办公室举办的开局起步“十五五”系列主题新闻发布会上，临汾市委副书记、市长王延峰介绍，截至目前，晋冀鲁豫大宗商品骨干流通走廊沿线11个地市共谋划重点项目363个、总投资1.16万亿元。 2024年，临汾市被国家发展改革委确定为晋冀鲁豫大宗商品骨干流通走廊建设牵头城市。王延峰表示，牵头建设这一走廊是国家发展改革委赋予临汾的重大使命。走廊建设能够高效贯通“一带”和“一路”，纵深融入黄河流域生态保护和高质量发展等多个国家战略，有力支撑全国区域经济发展格局。
二 | 目前，走廊已列入《国家现代流通体系建设“十五五”规划》，上升为国家战略。 作为牵头城市，未来五年，临汾将与沿线其余10个地市携手，推动区域间设施互联互通、产销互动互融、合作互促互利，确保走廊建设走深走实、早见成效。 王延峰说，临汾在协调推动上述项目落地的同时，将突出抓好“一试点、一合作、一中心”建设，努力让牵头城市的职能从工作协调向引领发展转变。 其中，“一试点”是依托侯马方略保税物流园区“全国铜精矿‘口岸+目的地’联合监管试点”，积极争取“保税混矿”业务，推动瓦日铁路“重去重回”班列常态化开行，实现周边企业降本和物流提效双赢。 “一合作”是抢抓“双碳”机遇，与宁德时代、赣锋锂业等企业合作打造“电动临汾”，一体推进持车平台、电池平台、二手车经营服务平台等“三大平台”建设，致力打造零碳重卡短倒运输示范区。 “一中心”是依托骨干流通走廊，谋划建设黄河金三角大宗商品交易中心，围绕焦煤等优势产品，打造集价格发现、供应链协同、期现货交易、跨境贸易于一体的现代化能源贸易生态，努力让临汾的焦煤品牌更有影响力、更有话语权。
三 | “我相信，在‘三个一’建设的引领下，临汾一定能够将区位优势转化为发展优势、将枢纽地位转化为经济地位，努力在服务构建新发展格局中展现更大作为、贡献更大力量。
四 | ”王延峰表示。
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