{"id":35725,"date":"2025-07-31T20:18:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T20:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/35725\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T20:18:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T20:18:11","slug":"video-of-unidentified-creature-in-seouls-han-river-goes-viral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/35725\/","title":{"rendered":"Video of unidentified creature in Seoul\u2019s Han River goes viral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">SEOUL \u2013 A video showing what appears to be an unidentified creature in the Han River has gone viral, according to local media reports on July 30.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The video titled \u201cA Real Monster Emerges at the Han River in Seoul\u201d was posted July 11 by fishing-themed YouTube channel Jungdam Story. It shows the YouTuber fishing at night near a car park by the National Assembly in Yeouido, when he spotted something large moving in the water.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">At first, he thought it was a big fish. Upon closer observation, he appeared alarmed by what he described as a black, thick and long creature approaching him.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">\u201cWhat is that? I\u2019m scared. It\u2019s moving towards me,\u201d he said in the video, before abandoning his fishing spot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">He said the creature remained in the same area for about 20 minutes, moving consistently. He estimated it to be 6m to 10m long and thicker than a human body.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">\u201cIt looked like there were two of them,\u201d he added. \u201cI\u2019ve been fishing for decades, but I\u2019ve never seen anything like this before.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The video has sparked thousands of comments online. Some speculated that the creature could be a group of otters, an alligator or even a python.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">In 2022, a similar popular video showed an unidentified object of comparable size in the Han River, which was later identified as a buoy. THE KOREA HERALD\/ ASIA NEWS NETWORK<\/p>\n<p>South KoreaSocial mediaYouTube<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEOUL \u2013 A video showing what appears to be an unidentified creature in the Han River has gone&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35726,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[64,63,128,338],"class_list":{"0":"post-35725","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}