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Brisbane police were reportedly preparing to dig up a shallow grave on Thursday as they searched for missing South Korean man Min Tae Allen Kim. Remains found a in shallow grave in south-west Brisbane may belong to missing South Korean man Min Tae Kim, police said on Thursday.
Kim, 28, was last seen by his housemates at their Cannon Hill home on Monday. He had gone out to exchange $15,000 cash into South Korean won with an unknown person he contacted through the website Gumtree, but never returned home. Detective inspector Rod Kemp said two men and one woman were arrested on Wednesday night over the disappearance of 28-year-old Kim.
Police were preparing to dig up a body in south-west Brisbane on Thursday afternoon, the Seven Network reported. They were due to hold a press conference about the disappearance. Police enquiries led them to a shallow grave in the suburb of Algester on Thursday morning.
A spokeswoman said officers were conducting an operation at a property on Peel St, Algester. Kemp said blood was found near the site, where forensics officers were preparing to exhume the contents.
Kim's friends in South Korea pleaded on Facebook for people to spread the word that he was missing. "It could be a dog, we do have fears that is human though and it is the missing person," Kemp said.
"Find my friend," Shine Kim wrote. Kim, 28, was last seen by his housemates at their Cannon Hill home about 2.45pm local time on Monday.
Another friend, Aaron Joo, urged people to share and like his post about Kim. He had gone out to exchange $15,000 cash into South Korean won with an unknown person he had contacted through the Gumtree website, but never returned home.
"NEED YOUR HELP! This is possibly a very sad case but we need you all," he wrote. His disappearance comes less than a month after 22-year-old South Korean woman Eunji Ban was murdered in a CBD park on her way to work.
Kemp said it would be shocking if Kim proved to be the second Korean murdered in Brisbane in such a short time.
"If it is and if he has been brutally murdered, it's a shocking thing for us," he said.
Kemp said there was no reason for Koreans to be particularly vulnerable, but he warned international students to be aware they could be targeted by criminals.
"Obviously it's a strange environment for them, they can be seen as a soft target at times," he said.
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