Recently, suspicions have arisen surrounding the death of influencer BJ A-Young (Byun Ah-Young-33), who was found dead in Cambodia.
According to local media, the body of a South Korean woman in her 30s was found at a construction site in Kandal province, near the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh, on June 6th. The woman was identified as Byun Ah-young, a South Korean tourist, whose body was wrapped in a red cloth and dumped in a puddle. Local police arrested the hospital's owners, a Chinese couple in their 30s, on suspicion of dumping Byun's body. They claimed that Ms. Byun died on April 4th after suddenly suffering a seizure after receiving an antibody injection at their hospital. Seung Jae-hyun, a senior research fellow at the Korea Institute for Criminal Justice Policy, appeared on CBS Radio's "Kim Hyun-jung's News Show" on March 13 and raised three questions.
Seung's first question was about the location: why did she visit a hospital run by a Chinese couple instead of a Korean hospital? "There were many Korean-American hospitals," he said, "but why did she go to a foreign hospital where they couldn't speak well? Oh Sung-il, president of Global Korean Hospital, which operates Korean hospitals in Cambodia, also told CBS, "If Phnom Penh is Seoul, Kandal Province is Gyeonggi Province. I don't understand why a young woman would go to a Chinese hospital if she wasn't going to go sightseeing here."
The second is that it is unclear what symptoms Ms. Byun was suffering from and what kind of treatment she received. "When you have malaria or tetanus, you inject serum to immunize yourself, so why did (Byun) have to take such an injection, and why was it prescribed by the hospital," said Seung, referring to some reports that Byun died after receiving a "serum injection." "We need to look at whether this is a medical 'accident' or an 'incident,'" he said.
The third question was about the signs of beating found on the body. "The face can swell when receiving a serum injection, and it can also swell during the decomposition process of a corpse, which is completely different from the side effects of assault and drug poisoning," Seung said. "The appearance of broken body parts is obviously caused by an external force, but a seizure while receiving a serum injection does not break body parts."
He also noted the need for statements from acquaintances known to have traveled with Byun. "It's important to find out how she died," Seung said. I would ask acquaintances to do the same. He's not telling us what happened, he's scared, he's a little traumatized, he might not be able to talk, but it's not like we're thinking of him as a suspect at all." "If it's an accident, that's really unfortunate, but if it's a case, we need to make sure he's brought to justice," he added.