Victim’s visa hell
The young woman killed in a horror plunge from a posh TriBeCa high-rise had little time left in the country and had gathered with friends at a beer-filled soirée as she was preparing to ship off to South Korea, a source told The Post.
Hana Lim, 26, was a New Jersey resident whose visa was about to expire, and she dreaded her looming return to her home country — leading cops to take seriously the theory that she took her own life, sources said.
She died partying in the $2.8 million, 26th-floor apartment at 101 Warren St. with male pals Seok Kim, 30, and Suk Hee Lee, 26, whom she’d met in an English-language class, cops said.
Lim attended the Rennert language school on East 45th Street until October and had rented an apartment for the past five months in a four-story brick building on 62nd Street in West New York, NJ.
During the TriBeCa party, Lee and Kim ran out of beer.
After the drunken men went off in search of more suds, Lim plunged from a balcony, landing in a bloody heap on an elevated, landscaped park area that’s level with the fifth floor of the complex.
The men returned with the beer and noticed Lim was gone, so they searched the building, an effort captured on surveillance video.
When they couldn’t find her, they figured she had left, police said.
A sixth-floor neighbor spotted her body at sunrise, and cops arrived to find her at 6:45 a.m., her broken cellphone lying nearby.
The Medical Examiner’s Office said yesterday that autopsy results were pending, awaiting the completion of toxicology and tissue tests and further investigation. Cops do not suspect foul play.
The luxury building — equipped with Bloomberg terminals for Wall Street brokers — has balconies that are flush with the facade and can be entered from the living room, dining room and a second bedroom.
There are three glass walls, but the outer space is open and protected only by a waist-high barrier and rail.
Additional reporting by Ikimulisa Livingston
