GC55JQA 3-Waryongsan Frog Boys (Kim Yeong-gyu) (Unknown Cache) in Daegu, South Korea created by Jiho Kim

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Hidden : 5/25/2014

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Geocache Description:

주어진 좌표지점에는 캐시가 없습니다.
The cache is not at the listed coordinates!!

N 35 _ _._ _ _'
E 128 _ _ ._ _ _'

This puzzle was provided by salambander
The Frog Boys (Korean: 개구리소년) were a group of five South Korean boys who disappeared on March 26, 1991. The boys had gone to nearby Mount Waryong to catch frogs but never returned. Their bodies were found 11 years later. Although it was discovered that they had been murdered, the case has never been solved. The incident was the subject of two films, Come Back, Frog Boys (1992) and Children (2011) and several songs.
March 26, 1991 was a national holiday in South Korea owing to the 1991 local elections; the boys decided to spend the day catching frogs in the streams of Mount Waryong. After they were reported missing, their story became a national sensation. President Roh Tae-woo sent 300,000 police officers to search for the missing boys, with the searches shown live on TV. Several of the boys' parents left their jobs to travel around the country to look for their children. During the search, the police received over 550 false leads. Mount Waryong was searched more than 500 times before the boys were found, 11 years after they disappeared.
In 2002, a man searching for acorns discovered their bodies in an area of the mountain that had already been searched. He first reported the remains via an anonymous phone call. Initially, the police stated that they thought the boys had died of hypothermia. However, the parents did not accept that conclusion and demanded a full investigation. The families questioned the conclusion that the boys had simply died after getting lost due to the oddities of the boys' clothes being found tied in knots and of their bodies being found a short distance from the village in an area the boys knew very well. Forensic experts discovered that the boys had been murdered with repeated blows to the head and that one had been shot in the head with a shotgun. In 2006, the statute of limitations expired on the boys' quintuple murder case, so even if it was solved, they would be unable to prosecute anyone for the murders. The police said that they would nevertheless continue their investigation, to uncover the truth. A funeral service was held for the boys on March 25, 2004, and their skulls were donated to medical research.

성서 초등학생 실종 사건(城西初等學生失踪事件)은 1991년 3월 26일에 대구직할시 달서구에 살던 다섯 명의 초등학생이 도롱뇽 알을 주우러 간다며 집을 나선 뒤 실종된 사건을 말한다. 사건 발생일인 1991년 3월 26일은 5·16 군사 정변 이후 중단된 지방자치제가 30년 만에 부활하여 기초의회 의원을 뽑는 시·군·구의회 의원 선거일로 임시 공휴일이었다. 주로 개구리 소년 실종 사건으로 널리 알려져 있다.
5명의 초등학생이 그것도 같은 날 동시에 실종된 이 사건은 당시 상당한 파장을 일으켰고, 사건 발생 2년 후인 1993년에는 KBS 1TV의 사건 25시와 SBS의 그것이 알고 싶다를 통해 심층적으로 방영되면서 전국적인 관심을 불러일으켰다. 특히 공중전화카드, 엽서 등은 물론이고 심지어는 어린이 만화 비디오테이프 등까지 대대적으로 캠페인이 전개되면서 남녀노소 대부분이 이 사건에 대해 인지할 정도였다.
당시 정부는 경찰과 군을 대대적으로 투입하여 현장 주변을 샅샅이 뒤지고 전국적으로 수배 전단이 배포되었다. 하지만 뚜렷한 성과 없이 미제 사건으로 묻히는 듯하다가 사건 발생 11년 6개월만인 2002년 9월 26일에 아이들의 유골이 발견되면서 전국이 충격에 빠졌다. 이 사건은 끝내 아이들의 사망 원인조차 제대로 규명하지 못한 채 2006년 3월 25일에 공소시효 15년이 만료되면서 미제사건으로 남았다. 한편으로 실종 어린이들이 흔히 개구리 소년으로 불렸는데, 이는 도룡뇽 알을 주우러 간다는 말이 개구리를 잡으러 간다고 왜곡된 것이 초기에 널리 퍼지면서 비롯된 말이다.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Fhqbxh punyyratr.

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)