Officials identify body found in Hingham park
Woman, 24, was Wellesley graduate
Authorities yesterday identified a body that was found in a Hingham park as Jane M. Park , a Wellesley College graduate and Fulbright scholar who had been missing for about seven months.
Park, 24, lived in Somerville and was reported missing by her family on May 15. She had been seen visiting World's End park in Hingham at the time of her disappearance, authorities have said. That is where a passerby noticed her remains and contacted police Saturday.
Authorities used dental records to confirm her identity. Park's family, who live in Potomac, Md., would not comment last night when reached by telephone. The family spent a lot of time in the Boston area during the search, and a state trooper contacted them yesterday.
Somerville police have said they do not suspect foul play. Authorities would not disclose the cause of her death, and were awaiting word from state medical examiners.
Park's remains were found in a wooded area and had been there for some time, authorities said.
Police weeks ago had focused their search for Park on the South Shore, where she was last seen. The Somerville Journal reported that Somerville police had discovered that Park sold her bicycle in Quincy on May 5. She also had been spotted in Hull and Hingham, as well as World's End reservation. Somerville police had identified two people who had dropped her off in the area, but they did not release their names, the Journal reported.
Park graduated with honors from Wellesley in 2004 with a degree in philosophy. She was president of the Wellesley Philosophical Society and a member of the Chamber Music Society, according to Wellesley's website. She had been a summer intern at the Korean American Coalition in Washington, D.C., and a teaching assistant at Johns Hopkins University and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery of Asian Art in Washington , D.C.
In 2004, she won a highly competitive Fulbright Scholarship to study the teaching of English as a foreign language in South Korea. In 2005, she began coursework at the Harvard Extension School.
Adrienne P. Samuels of the Globe staff contributed to this story. 
