Three orcas apparently were landed by Korean fishermen in November. So far only some photos from Flickr and some poorly translated news reports are available so far, but one of the photos may allow some identification if they had been photographed previously. The photo with a saddle patch and eyepatch can be seen Tim Zimmermann's blog, which is the clearinghouse for further information: http://timzimmermann.com/2011/12/09/dead-orcas-in-korea/
A commenter on the blog says that these photos come from a 2008 event:
http://news.naver.com/main/read.nhn?mode=LSD&mid=sec&sid1=101&oid=001&aid=0002175832
http://news.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2008/07/16/2008071600046.html
http://news.naver.com/main/read.nhn?mode=LSD&mid=sec&sid1=102&oid=001&aid=0002176610
Howard Garrett
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