Here is another one of those articles posting about the possibility of tigers living on the Korean DMZ:

I am huddled in a sleeping bag in an old military tent near the Demilitarized Zone in South Korea. I am camping out with a band of men dedicated to protect their loved ones.

Oh, by loved ones, I mean wild animals. These are not soldiers from the nearby U.S. or South Korean armies. Rather, they are a rag tag team of conservationists (and, I suspect, a few of their buddies who may have joined the trip for the rations of hot dogs and blueberry pancakes).

The chief eco-warrior is Sun Nam “Tiger” Lim. (In Korean, his last name translates to “Woods” — as in Tiger Woods — no kidding.) Lim has been tracking tigers for 20 years and says his research shows the endangered cat lives in the DMZ.  [CNN]

You can read the rest at the link, but this is just another in a string of articles that exaggerate the DMZ as a wildlife refuge.  I have spent plenty of time up and around the DMZ and for Korea there is a lot of wildlife, but the amount of wildlife is not a whole lot compared with for example North America or Australia.  The DMZ area and Jiri Mountain are still the only areas I have ever spotted deer in Korea.  I have also seen some wild boars and plenty of birds to include cranes around the DMZ area as well.  Contrary to what these string of article claim there are no bears, leopards, or tigers along the DMZ.  I have never met anyone who has served along the DMZ to include the ROK Army that has ever seen one.  This is not a vast wilderness, the DMZ area is small enough that if bears, leopards, and tigers were running around up there someone would have seen it by now.

The DMZ is a nice wildlife area by Korean standards, but why the need by  journalists to exaggerate?