Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.Kim Sun-il was a South Korean translator and Christian missionary who was kidnapped and beheaded in Iraq.Kim was fluent in Arabic, holding a graduate degree in that language from Seoul''s Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in February 2003. He also had degrees in English and theology, and had hoped to become a missionary in the Middle East. He arrived in Iraq on June 15, 2003, working for Gana General Trading Company, a South Korean company under contract to the United States military.On May 30, 2004, he was kidnapped in Fallujah — about 50 km (30 miles) west of Baghdad — by the Islamist group Jama''at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad and held as a hostage. The group, which was led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, killed him on or about June 22 when South Korea refused to meet their demands that it cancel its plans to send 3,000 more troops to Iraq and withdraw the 660 military medics and engineers already there.
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