Top ROK businessman found dead in Seoul home

SEOUL: The ousted chairman of the oldest conglomerate in the Republic of Korea (ROK), the Doosan Group, was found dead in an apparent suicide, a news report said yesterday.

Park Yong-oh was found dead at his Seoul home in what appeared to be a suicide, the Yonhap news agency said, citing police.

Police said they were trying to determine whether Park committed suicide. Officials at Seoul National University hospital confirmed his death but did not cite a cause. Park had suffered from a heart problem, said hospital spokesman Lim Jong-pil.