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THE Embassy of South Korea was quick to deny that a Korean mafia operates in the Philippines and was behind the murder of Korean businessman Jee Ick-joo. Understandably, embassy officials would come under fire from its own diplomatic headquarters and the South Korean government as a whole for failing to monitor and report the activities of this alleged mafia. Linking the gruesome killing of Jee Ick-joo to an alleged shakedown by his own compatriots is something that even the victim’s widow was insistent on dispelling.