The Western media has a long history of declaring Korean citizens dead only for them to "magically" come back to life. This can be summarily thrown onto that pile.
Was he sold as death? From what I saw (whilst its true that I don't really bother checking right-wing western media) it was mostly conspiracy theories that pointed towards coronavirus.
PrincipledMarxismLeninism wrote
The Western media has a long history of declaring Korean citizens dead only for them to "magically" come back to life. This can be summarily thrown onto that pile.