Jo Hee-pal: Korea’s Biggest Con Man Was Declared Dead. His Victims Say He Isn’t
Jo Hee-pal promised 70,000 Koreans monthly rent from bathhouse massage chairs, then slipped out to China on a fishing boat while a Coast Guard sting watched, by one informant’s account. In 2012 police announced he had died there, and the main proof was a 51-second funeral video. Prosecutors closed the case in 2016. His victims still do not accept it. Listen to the narrated true crime podcast episode.
