Hunt for Wild Boar Shutdown Tours of Changdeok Palace in Seoul
|I don’t think a wild boar wandering onto the grounds of Changdeok Palace should be considered a “rampage” as described in this article:
A view of Changdeok Palace in Jongno District, central Seoul [JOONGANG PHOTO]
A wild boar went on a rampage at tourist destination Changdeok Palace, a Unesco World Heritage site, and was later killed on Tuesday.
The Changdeok Palace Management Office killed a wild boar around Seonwonjeon Hall in the rear garden of the palace grounds at around 1 p.m. Tuesday, working together with a wild boar capture team, according to the National Heritage Service.
The wild boar was estimated to be about 1.5 meters (4.9 feet) long and weighed 90 kilograms (198 pounds).
The animal was first discovered through CCTV footage on Sunday by the Changdeok Palace Management Office, and the case was reported to emergency authorities who conducted a search. Jongno District officials and hunters tracked the wild boar’s movements, but were initially unable to find the animal.
A backyard tour of the palace scheduled from 10 a.m. that day was halted, and search operations continued on Monday, a regular day off for the palace.
The management office and capture team members ran another operation at 11 a.m. Tuesday using hunting dogs, finding and killing the wild boar about two hours later.
You can read more at the link, but I have hiked all over Korea and have never seen a wild boar and here one shows up in the middle of Seoul.
So be careful next time you order samgyopsal.