CDC: Shooting of Sokor trader not inside Clark Freeport

CLARK FREEPORT – The Clark Development Corporation (CDC) has denied a news story published in a national business daily which reported that a South Korean businessman was murdered inside the Clark Special Economic Zone (CSEZ).

The erroneous news report, which came out in the Tuesday (Feb. 2) issue of Business World bore the headline “South Korean businessman murdered in Clark eco zone.”

But Acting Manager Nicanor S. Targa of the CDC-Public Safety Department said there was no shooting incident inside the Clark Freeport.

Targa said the fatal shooting of South Korean Kang Ha Yong happened at Arirang Villas in Barangay Anunas in Angeles City and not inside the former United States military installation.

The victim was a resident of Arirang Villas, Targa added.

CDC Public Relations Manager Angelo “Sonny” Lopez lamented that the news story has sent wrong signals to business locators here.

“News stories such as this can do so much damage to businesses inside the Clark Freeport,” he said.

“For an award-winning paper such as Business World, they should have checked their facts,” Lopez added.

Lopez said the headline specifically identified Clark as the location of the incident but a close examination of the body of the story shows that the report did not even pinpoint the exact place where the shooting incident happened. Rather it only used Clark as a reference point.

“While the story attributed some details to a police officer, the report did not cite concrete information from a police report,” Lopez said.