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Forensic Medicine is a field of social medicine as a medicine respecting human rights. The Medical Examiner’s Office provides scientific evidence for resolution of violent crimes by performing postmortem inspection and autopsy on dead bodies and examining forensic medical evidence, finds criminals through the evidence, and contributes to the decision of a verdict as well as the sentencing.
Autopsy & Postmortem Inspection
Scientific identification for the cause and type of death
Analysis on Forensic Images
Analysis on forensic images using imaging medical devices such as CT, etc.
Forensic medical examinations on human-derived evidence
Various forensic medical examinations using histopathology, microbiology, diagnostic genetics, and clinical chemical techniques
Forensic Dentistry & Forensic Anthropology
Analysis on personal identification items to confirm identify and implementation of personal identification
Operation of Korea Disaster Mortuary Operational Team
(KDMOT)
Victim management and personal identification of domestic and international major death cases
Major Services Provided by the Medical Examiner’s Office
Currently, the Medical Examiner’s Office conducts forensic autopsy, forensic dentistry, and histopathology services. In recent years, in order to improve the accessibility of autopsy services, regional forensic branch offices have been established and in operation at Catholic University, Seoul National University and Korea University. To identify the cause of the death of a dead body with an unclear cause or a dead body associated with a criminal case, it conducts autopsy or postmortem inspection for the cases requested by investigative agencies or judicial institutions to determine the type and cause of death and notifies the result to the organization that requested the service.
The Forensic service support office provides comprehensive supervision for all tasks related to autopsy, forensic medical examination, and research to facilitate the services and also performs administrative tasks related to the entire Medical Examiner’s Office.
Forensic Medicine Research and Practice
- To be responsible for the management of deaths of people
is the basic obligation of the country. As the social structure
becomes more complex and diverse, the demand for forensic autopsy
increases. However, it has been difficult for people to claim
their legitimate rights since forensic medical verification for
deaths caused by industrial and non-industrial accidents, and
work-related deaths is not carried out. The social expectation for
the result of forensic medical research (autopsy) is very high,
and forensic autopsy is a very important national duty since the
evaluation result can be applied to sensitive legal relationships
and interests among the parties in the relationships. The level of
forensic medicine of a society represents the level of human
rights of society. The scope of our forensic medicine service is
not limited to the identification of the cause of death of
individuals based on forensic medicine, but expands not only to
operation of the Korea Disaster Mortuary Operational Team (KDMORT)
in major disasters but also to contribution to national health
statistics by building a database for forensic analysis results,
and preparation of measures to prevent similar accidents by
analyzing the type of crimes killing people.
Autopsy Management Service
- The forensic service support office is a department leading forensic autopsy requested by police stations, prisons, detention centers, courts and prosecutors, which is at the forefront of the autopsy process. It also contributes to the identification of the cause of death by accurately collecting the samples required for forensic pathological analysis, poisonous drug analysis, narcotics analysis, chemical analysis, genetic analysis and plankton analysis. Our Medical Examiner’s Office, which has played a role as the best autopsy organization in South Korea, is making every effort to be able to leap into a future-oriented organization in line with the trend of change in the public officials’ society.
Histopathology services include histopathological analysis, research, and support for histopathological analysis. Histopathological analysis provides important information to identify the cause of death by examining the tissue of a dead person with a microscope based on pathological knowledge and diagnosing tissue change of the organ, pathological condition and disease. The pathological examination method is the same as that of biopsy performed in regular hospitals. However, unlike the hospitals, it mainly deals with the tissues related to a judicial autopsy. Therefore, there are many deaths by accidents caused by injury, electric shock, fire, gunshot wounds, drowning, suffocation, and drug poisoning. The histopathology office mainly performs pathologic tissue examination and improves the reliability of pathological examination by using conventional optical microscopy as well as transmission electron microscopy for precise examination, if necessary. The institute has obtained basic data for the body and organ of Koreans by experiencing many diseases and valuable forensic medical examples and performs systematic analysis on various diseases and research on physiopathological mechanisms.
Electric Shock Case
Electric
mark on the skin showing wrinkles and charring around an oval
depressed area
Optical
miscopy finding for an electric mark in which vacuoles were
formed, and the nucleus extended long
Diabetes
Optical
miscopy finding for a kidney, showing multiple nodules formed in
glomeruli.
Electron
microscopy finding of a glomeruli indicating that the basement
membrane is uniformly thickened
Death by Drowning
Plankton
(diatoms) collected from organ tissues of a drowned body
The major service of forensic dentistry is forensic personal identification. Forensic dental personal identification is based on the age estimate of a dead body, dental profiling for an unidentified body, and personal identification through comparison between ante mortem and post mortem dental information. It also performs analysis on the bite mark remaining on the skin of a suspect or victim. Another major service is forensic anthropologic analysis on cremains or a dead body unidentified due to decay. Forensic anthropologic analysis enables to estimate the gender and height of a dead body and to identify the presence of trauma of the bones and the presence of disease. Forensic dental services basically focus on personal identification and play an important role in rapid personal identification in the case of large-scale disasters that cause many casualties at one time.
3D
analysis and measurement of tooth plaster model for bite mark
analysis
Ante
mortem dental information
Post
mortem dental information
The
age was estimated to be 8.5 years old by the forensic dentistry
age estimation method, with the actual age being 8.4 years old
In order to mitigate the centralization of NFS autopsy services, increase accessibility by establishing reginal forensic branch offices near relevant authorities, and cultivate forensic manpower through cooperation with medical schools, the NFS established regional forensic branch offices in Catholic University Medical School, Korea University Medical School, and Seoul National University Medical School through an industry-university collaboration agreement. Korea University started its business on November 29, 2007 and officially opened on June 26, 2008. Catholic University opened on August 21, 2008, and Seoul National University opened on January 9, 2013.
Korea University
Catholic University
Seoul National University
Laboratory Equipment
Cryotome
Auto Stainer
3D computerized
modelling system
Multi Detecter
Computed Tomography
SceneWorks
3D scanner
Ground Penetrating
Radar
Drone, S-900
Laboratory Equipment
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Equipment for slicing frozen tissues so that they can be examined by a microscope. It is used to view fat cells, etc.
Laboratory Equipment
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Equipment for dyeing sliced tissue specimens attached to slides
Laboratory Equipment
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Equipment used to produce various models in the 3D virtual space. In the field of forensic examination, it is used for confirming an identity using the skull and producing a facial reconstruction model for individual identification. Using 3D image data of the face and skull photographed by PMCT, the elements constructing the face are reconstructed in the 3D virtual space through 3D image visualization analysis and morphometric analysis on the 3D computerized modelling system to make a face restoration model and perform identity verification.
Laboratory Equipment
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Prior to autopsy on a body, CT and angiogram are taken to acquire
information about the injury site and the diagnosis of the cause
of death and to preserve 3D image data.
Personal
identification and 3D facial restoration of a partial body
excavated in the event of a major disaster.
Protecting the
dignity of bodies through precision and minimal incision and
maximizing respect for bereaved families.
Laboratory Equipment
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Panorama shooting of a crime scene (360°×180°) and shooting of a crime scene and management of various records using the comprehensive field investigation management program 360° Full HDR, Resolution (68.9 million pixels)
Laboratory Equipment
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Used for 3D stereoscopic photography for a small indoor scene or
a crime scene requiring emergency shooting.
Acquisition of
20 million color points per session, measurable time (2.5 hours),
measurable distance (0.6~3.6m) and shooting angle (57°)
Laboratory Equipment
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Equipment using electromagnetic waves for exploring the
earth’s surface and is used for investigating excavation
traces or underground utilities, buried bodies, etc.
It
can distinguish 1cm to 50cm size objects present at a depth of
2cm to 10m.
Laboratory Equipment
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Overall investigation of terrain where the scene of the incident
is extensive or difficult to access.
6 propellers
(hexacopter), maximum flight time: 18 minutes, camera installed
and shoots at various angles
Major Analysis Cases
- 1
2004.06
Serial Murder in the Southwest Part of Seoul - 2
2008.09~10
Ahn Jae-hwan & Choi Jin-sil Death Cases - 3
2010.10
Hwang Jang-yeop’s Death - 4
2014.10
Medical Accident of Shin Hae-chul
Major Analysis Cases
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불임치료목적으로 복용한 반묘(cantharides)에
의한 사망사건
강원도 원주시 한의원에서 불임치료목적으로 지은 한약, 한약가루약(일명 반묘가루) 및 한약추출액을 혼합하여 마신 직후 환자가 사망하였으며, 감정결과 위 내용물 및 혈액에서 칸타리 딘(cantharidin)이 검출됨. 칸타리딘은 반묘의 주성분으로 치사량이 10mg이고 과량복용시 복통, 이질, 토혈, 혈뇨, 혈압 저하 등에 이어 사망한다고 알려져 있음