9-7-2023 (PHNOM PENH) South Korean live-streaming personality, ahyeong, 33, travelled to Cambodia in early June with a friend but was found dead in a drainage ditch a few days later. An investigative programme on South Korean television network SBS, “Want to Know the Truth,” interviewed experts and local police in Cambodia and found evidence suggesting that she may have been sexually assaulted.
According to South Korean media reports, ahyeong and a friend entered Cambodia on June 2 and visited a clinic run by a Chinese couple in Phnom Penh on June 4 for intravenous drip and serum injections to boost their immune systems. She reportedly suffered a seizure during the serum treatment and died. Her body was discovered in a drainage ditch in the outskirts of Phnom Penh on June 6. The police traced the couple who had wrapped the body in a red cloth and arrested them on charges of abandoning a body.
“Want to Know the Truth” cited the local police in charge of the case, who suggested that ahyeong died of asphyxiation due to a suspected drug reaction. “There were no signs of external injuries or torture on the body, and drug tests were negative,” the police said. However, they also noted that “she was not wearing any underwear and her panties were inside out, which suggests that she may have been sexually assaulted.”
The Chinese couple involved claimed that ahyeong had a seizure and died suddenly at the clinic. They admitted to transporting the body to the drainage ditch but denied any sexual assault allegations. The production team of the investigative programme contacted the Chinese man, who is currently in custody, and he claimed that ahyeong had asked him for injections, which he did not provide. He also stated that ahyeong had injection marks on her body.
Experts examining surveillance footage suggested that the man’s wife must have known something about the incident, and they speculated that “choosing to abandon the body implies that they had committed a more serious crime.”
