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A |     Most missing adults are found quickly, but gaps in the system can have deadly consequences                   Police search for Jang Mi-ran, a 37-year-old reported missing in May, at a palm farm in Hallim-eup, Jeju Island. Jang was found dead Monday. (Yonhap)The death of Jang Mi-ran after her missing-person case was allegedly closed on false grounds has renewed scrutiny of South Korea’s system for finding missing adults.South Korea tracks missing-person reports involving adults, but ordinary adult cases are not covered by the same legal framework that allows nationwide alerts, certain forms of location tracking and DNA testing for children, people with specified disabilities and people with dementia.More than 70,000 adults were reported missing each year between 2022 and 2025. Most cases were resolved quickly, with 89.4 percent closed within a day last year and 99 percent within a month, according to National Police Agency data.Of the 70,591 adult missing-person cases closed in 2025, 931 involved people who were found dead.Jang’s case has drawn attention to what can happen when a case is closed before a missing person’s safety has been confirmed.A Jeju police officer surnamed Bu is accused of falsely telling Jang’s boyfriend and family that she was safe but did not want to be found. Police have said they found no records showing that Bu contacted her.Bu is accused of making a similar false claim in another missing-person case involving a man in his 60s, who was also later found dead.The cases have revived a long-running debate over whether police need stronger legal authority to search for missing adults, and how far those powers should extend without infringing on privacy.Gaps in adult casesJang’s cousin reportedly went to Seoul’s Nowon Police Station on July 19 to request another search for her, about two months after Bu allegedly told the family that Jang had been contacted and was safe.Nowon officials reportedly questioned whether Jang, as an adult, might simply have left voluntarily.The high rate of quick case closures has raised concern that some adult cases are treated as routine disappearances. Bu handled and closed 298 missing-person cases during roughly 17 months on a missing-person team.Meanwhile, the number of cases ending in death is not insignificant. Between 2016 and 2025, 13,639 missing adults were eventually found dead, an average of about 1,364 a year. Thousands of long-term cases also remain unsolved.                   Police search for Jang Mi-ran, a 37-year-old reported missing in May, at a harbor in Jeju Island. Jang was found dead on Monday. (Yonhap)Police have fewer tools in ordinary adult cases.Nationwide missing-person alerts are generally sent out only for minors, people with certain disabilities and people with dementia. Of the 3,126 people found last year under that system, 696, or 22.3 percent, were located after reports from members of the public who had seen an alert.Police searches and investigations accounted for 39.2 percent of discoveries, according to a report jointly submitted by the National Police Agency and the Ministry of Health and Welfare.Ordinary missing adults generally do not qualify for such alerts.Police have used DNA testing since 2004 to identify missing children and other eligible groups. Ordinary adult cases are not covered by the same DNA collection and comparison framework.The scale of adult disappearances is also larger. About 70,800 adult missing-person reports were filed in 2025, more than twice the roughly 29,600 involving children.Legislative pushSouth Korea enacted the Act on the Protection and Support of Missing Children and Others in 2005, establishing the legal basis for many of the search tools used today. There is no equivalent comprehensive law for ordinary missing adults.Lawmakers have made repeated attempts to fill that gap.A bill proposed in 2024 by Rep. Lim Ho-seon of the Democratic Party of Korea would establish a separate information system for missing adults and give police clearer authority to obtain location and travel information.The proposal remains pending at the National Assembly alongside similar bills.Supporters argue that broader powers could help police act more quickly when an adult is in danger. Opponents warn that the same powers could be used to track people who have deliberately chosen to leave home or cut off contact.Adults generally have the right to decide where they live and whom they remain in contact with, making the issue more complicated than cases involving children or vulnerable people.Police can already obtain location information in some cases involving signs of imminent danger. The unresolved question is whether that authority should be expanded for missing adults more broadly.。

B |     AI摘要      福州人大常委会初审船政文化史迹保护条例草案，推进保护工作法治化。

C | 草案明确保护规划、分类管理及活化利用措施，助力2028年申遗，并建议增加对台交流内容。         25日，市人大常委会会议初审《福州船政文化史迹保护条例（草案）》。这意味着福州船政文化史迹的保护利用工作迈入法治化治理的关键阶段。    2024年12月，“中国近代工业化遗产（福州船政文化史迹）”列入中国世界文化遗产预备名单。然而，长期以来，船政文化史迹的保护主要依靠文物保护法等通用性上位法，缺乏具有针对性、系统性的专项地方性法规支撑。按照申遗时间表，福州要力争在2028年向世界遗产中心提交正式申报材料，配套出台专项保护法规已是当务之急。    为此，市人大常委会将《福州船政文化史迹保护条例》列为2026年地方性法规立法审议项目，并组建立法专班专项推进，以法治力量为船政文化史迹筑起坚实的“防护墙”。

D |     《条例（草案）》设置总则、保护管理、活化利用、法律责任等章节，将实践中积累的经验上升为地方性法规，让保护有章可循、有法可依。    《条例（草案）》为了以更高标准、更高水平推进船政文化史迹保护工作，规定了船政文化史迹保护规划的编修程序以及与其他规划之间的关系，并要求船政文化管理机构应当定期组织开展专题调查，按照程序编制保护名录。    《条例（草案）》提出分类划定保护区域，并对区域内禁止性行为作出明确规定。对保护规划实施前已建成但不符合保护规划的建筑物进行分类处置，对史迹修缮提出了不改变史迹原状的要求。同时，要求文物行政主管部门和船政文化管理机构建立完善安全监测巡查、重大事项专家咨询论证等制度，实现常态化、精细化管理。

E |     《条例（草案）》还力求让百年船政在新时代“开口说话”。一方面，要求纳入保护名录的船政文化史迹尽可能向社会公众开放；另一方面，明确政府应支持建设主题场馆平台，推进船政文化史迹保护数字化、信息化、智能化。    《条例（草案）》还提出要规范旅游经营活动，依托船政史迹规范开展研学实践、国防科普等活动，让文化遗产真正融入当代生活。    在初步审查过程中，常委会组成人员还建议增加对台交流合作的内容，发挥船政文化作为两岸共同历史记忆的独特纽带作用。

F | （记者 李晖）。