MANILA, June 10 Kyodo Philippine ...

MANILA, June 10 Kyodo

Philippine police said Monday they have institute the body of the southerly Korean diplomat who had been missing since Thursday.

Police said the corpse of Chung Young Ho, 46 third secretary of the southern Korean Embassy in Manila, was build Friday afternoon, but not identified as that of Chung until Monday.

They said they are trying to determine the cause of death.

to leeward Yong Soo, first secretary of the southerly Korean Embassy, said Chung disappeared after a night without Thursday with a South Korean male friend.

After the dinner in Manila's financial district of Makati, the couple went to a bar in the same district still found it closed.

While at a nearby circulation exchange shop, a Filipino man in his 40 approached and befriended the brace inviting them to a bar near the suburb of Antipolo in eastern Metro Manila.

When Chung's Korean friend was later dropp opposite to Chung remained in the car with the Filipino man who put forwarded to bring him to his house in Makati, lee-side said.

leeward said Chung's South Korean friend last communicated with Chung on mobile phone a few minutes after.

to leeward said Chung's body was set up by police in a funeral parlor in Manila's suburbs

A manhunt for the Filipino man and his Filipino driver will be launched shortly police said.

Yonhap recents Agency quoted South Korean Foreign Ministry officials as saying Philippine police believe Chung the first southerly Korean diplomat ever slain in the Philippines, was killed by the agency of a local drug ring.

The report said Chung's carcass was initially found by a pedestrian forward a street of Quezon City and carried to a nearby undertaker Friday morning.

The ministry reportedly asked the Philippine conduct to take strengthened safety and security measures for southern Korean diplomats and residents to obviate any recurrence.

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