00:00On March 26, 1991, five elementary school boys left their neighborhood in Daegu, South Korea, to look for salamander eggs
00:09on a nearby mountain, but they never returned.
00:12For 11 years, their families and the entire country searched for them tirelessly.
00:18The search became one of the largest in South Korea's history. As the days went by, concerns spread far beyond
00:24the families.
00:26The case began to receive massive attention all across South Korea, and the five missing boys came to be known
00:33as the Frog Boys, a name that came about because it was believed that they had gone up the mountain
00:38with the intention of looking for frogs.
00:41But we must say that months went by, and even with such an extensive search, no answers surfaced, until their
00:50remains were finally found buried together on Mount Weryong itself.
00:55Just a few kilometers from their homes, and this happened, 11 years after their disappearance.
01:01On September 26, 2002, a man who was gathering acorns on Mount Weryong found several pieces of children's clothing and
01:11shoes among the vegetation.
01:12He also found some bones, and this discovery seemed strange to him.
01:17So he then contacted the authorities.
01:20According to the experts, several of the skulls showed injuries that didn't easily fit with an accidental death on the
01:26mountain.
01:28Of them, fractures and depressions consistent with blows caused by a blunt object were observed.
01:34In the initial analysis, forensic examiners noted that one of the skulls had two perforations that could be consistent with
01:43projectile impacts.
01:44Another important detail was that they found several bullets in the area where the remains were found, and this observation
01:51opened the door to a new hypothesis about what it could have been.
01:55One of the most talked about was related to a military shooting range located near the area where the remains
02:01were found.
02:03According to this hypothesis, the boys could have reached that area while exploring the mountain.
02:10And being in an area where firing drills were held, they could have been accidentally shot.
02:16The firing range hypothesis could be real because, a few days after the remains were found, in September 2002, a
02:24witness appeared claiming to have heard a confession related to the boys' deaths.
02:31According to his statement to the police, while working in Daegu, he heard a man say that during his military
02:37service, there had been an accident involving several children near a firing range.
02:44After decades of investigations, thousands of hours of police work, countless testimonies, and several reopenings of the case, there is
02:52still no lead capable of pointing with certainty to who harmed the boys.
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