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[Herald Economy — Reporter Moon Young-gyu] Singer Solbi (Kwon Ji-an) has revisited her involvement in a past missing-child search campaign in Pyeongtaek and urged the public to maintain attention on long-term missing children after the story resurfaced.On May 8, Solbi wrote on social media that banners reading "Looking for Song Hye-hee" caught her eye everywhere she went. The name stayed with her after she returned home, and her curiosity about the case prompted her to launch the Find Project.
An SBS program, The Day’s Story That Keeps Unfolding, aired the previous day and recounted the story of a father who spent 25 years searching for his missing daughter Song and died before finding her. The broadcast also revisited Solbi’s 2016 missing-child search campaign, the Find Project, and the backstory of her song "Find."
Solbi said she collaborated with other artists to support efforts to find Hye-hee through a documentary, a webtoon and music. "On the project I was responsible for the music and lyrics," she said, "and I interviewed the father in person, trying to channel the emotions he described into the song 'FIND.'"
She added, "Tragically, Hye-hee has not returned to her family, and the father has passed away. I sincerely hope they meet in the next life and find happiness together."
Solbi also called for continued support for families who are still searching in the streets for their children. "Please keep showing interest and encouragement to the families of long-term missing children," she wrote. "I will not forget and will always remember."
Father drove 1,080,000km (about 671,000 miles) over 25 years searching for his daughter…more than 1,400 long-term missing children
Song went missing in 1999. She was a teenager when she was last seen at the bus stop in front of her home in Pyeongtaek.
Her father put his work on hold and spent 25 years traveling the country to find her, logging roughly 1,080,000 km (about 671,000 miles).
He distributed about 4.5 million flyers nationwide and hung roughly 3,700 banners on highways and around cities.
The father died without finding his daughter, and Song remains missing.
The broadcast also reiterated that Solbi’s October 2016 release "Find" was inspired by this case.
One lyric — "Even as the seasons change, you're not here; only your photo remains" — captures the long-standing pain experienced by families of missing children.
Solbi said she was deeply moved when the father told her he always wore a fluorescent vest while hanging banners so people would notice them. "I wanted to share at least a little of that sorrow," she said.
According to the Ministry of Health and Welfare, as of 2024 there were 1,417 people listed as missing — including children missing more than a year and people with intellectual, autism or other mental disabilities. Among them, 1,128 had been missing for 20 years or more.
Since the 2005 passage of the Act on the Protection and Support of Missing Children, the government has run a range of programs to prevent child disappearances and accelerate the recovery of long-term missing children, including alert texts, pre-registration of fingerprints, DNA analysis, and projects using composite recognition technology to update and compare old photos.
Those efforts have paid off: most children reported missing in the past three years were found within a year of the report, with the recovery rate reaching 99.6% as of 2024.
