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South Korean Killer’s Drone Escape From Philippine Prison Foiled by Test Footage

Rehearsal footage exposed the plan after associates tested whether a drone could lift him over prison walls, officials and broadcasters said.

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A South Korean crime lord convicted of murder in the Philippines reportedly planned to escape prison by strapping himself to a drone – until his own accomplice’s rehearsal footage gave the game away. Park Wang-yeol, 47, was sentenced in 2022 to 60 years behind bars for the killing of three South Koreans in a sugar […]

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(Dan Tri Newspaper) - A South Korean crime boss serving a prison sentence in the Philippines has had his escape plan, in which he strapped himself into a 75kg payload drone, exposed.

It has been reported that Park Wang-yeol (47), the so-called "drug king" who directed drug smuggling and distribution from a Philippine prison to Korea, planned to escape by flying off a drone just before his repatriation to Korea. On the 14th, JTBC reported, "Park Wang-yeol planned to escape by flying off a drone from a detention center in the Philippines a month before his repatriation to Korea, but the plan fell through when footage of an acc…

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Seoul Shinmun (서울신문) broke the news on Monday, September 14, 2026.
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