Former South Korean president Roh dies, apparent suicide.
SEOUL, May 23 (UPI) — Roh Moo-hyun, president of South Korea from 2003 to 2008, died Saturday in an apparent suicide during a mountain walk with an aide, police said.
The South Gyeongsang Provincial Police Agency said Roh jumped or fell just before 7 a.m., tumbling into a ravine on a mountainside near his home, the JoongAng Daily reported.
Roh’s lawyer said the former president left what he described as a “brief” suicide note, Yonhap news agency said.
Roh and his family were under investigation in a bribery scandal. His elder brother was sentenced to four years in prison this month for receiving payments in return for peddling influence in the buyout of an ailing brokerage firm by a state-run company in 2006.