SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — The last polar bear kept in South Korea has died of old age only weeks before his planned departure to better living conditions in Britain, zoo officials said Thursday. Tongki — a 23-year-old male named after a Japanese cartoon character of the 1980s — lived in a 330-square-metre (3,500-square-foot) concrete enclosure at the Everland theme park outside Seoul. The zoo had planned to move him to the Yorkshire Wildlife Park […]





