Prime Minister Han Seong-sook hinted Thursday at establishing a special external body to pursue structural and governance reforms within the police following serious failures in the case of a woman missing for months before she was found dead on Jeju Island this week. “Internal reform will, of course, be necessary within the police, but if the body is intended to examine the organization as a whole, I do not think it would be appropriate to establish it within the police,” Han said during a press briefing at Government Complex Seoul. “Such a body tasked with reviewing the entire organization should probably be established outside the police,” she added. President Lee Jae Myung instructed the Prime Minister’s Office earlier this week to prepare a police reform body after a series of missing person cases on Jeju exposed serious problems in police procedures, supervision and organizational culture. The controversy centered in particular on the case of Jang Mi-ran, a 37-year-old woman who disappeared in Jeju’s Hallim area in May. A police officer allegedly closed her case without