The 1992 Gwangmyeong Disappearance: Severe Myopia and the ‘가출’ Archival Silence
There is a particular species of disappearance that haunts forensic archivists and cold case researchers with a dread qualitatively different from homicide. It is not the disappearance caused by violence—those cases, however unsolved, leave material residue: blood, testimony, forensic debris, the bureaucratic machinery of criminal investigation. The disappearance that truly disturbs is the one swallowed … Read more