Neighbours of the children whose bodies were found in suitcases say they want to see justice prevail for what they describe as an "unbelievable" crime.
Newshub has traced where the children and their parents lived in Auckland over the past decade and we've found new information establishing the date the children - a brother and sister - were killed.
Abdul has lived at his west Auckland home for almost two decades, and for seven years, his neighbours were a Korean family. That same family is now the focus of an international homicide inquiry.
"They were supportive, they were good. We haven't had any problem with them before," Abdul told Newshub.
"They were happy and normal."
Abdul would regularly see the couple and their child - a little girl - playing in the driveway.
"They go for a walk, and they have dogs too and they take the dogs out. It seems all normal."
He said there wasn't anything to suggest an internal strain in the family.
"I mean, to us, there was nothing to suggest something was wrong there," he said.
They were, in his words, "good neighbours". The father emailed Abdul in 2009 agreeing to help trim the trees in their shared driveway.
"He seemed positive in all ways," Abdul said.
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Around 2013, the couple moved to south Auckland where they'd later have a second child, a boy. They lived in a small brick rental in Papatoetoe. Again, neighbours report nothing unusual.
"Quite happy kids, just normal little kids having fun playing out the front there. Quite a shock, you know, you just would not think something like that would happen," another neighbour said.
But in November 2017, the children's father died of throat cancer. Six months later, his children would be dead too - victims of an alleged murder.
Official records obtained by Newshub show the children died between May 22, 2018, and June 28, 2018. At that time, the girl was aged eight and her brother was six years old.
Shortly after their deaths, a 42-year-old woman was recorded as entering South Korea from New Zealand. The remains of the children were left in a storage unit.
Given the time of death, it means their remains lay undiscovered for just over four years until August this year, when a family found them inside suitcases they'd won as part of an online auction for abandoned goods.
"All of us would like to see justice in this case. It’s upsetting for everyone I guess, and for us in particular, because we kind of relate to at least one of the children involved in this," Abdul said.
South Korea's Justice Minister Han Dong-hoon has approved her extradition after the High Court approved the process.
The Minister said in a statement that items seized from the suspect when she was arrested in the city of Ulsan will also be handed over to New Zealand authorities.
Police staff from New Zealand will be in Seoul to fly her back to New Zealand, which could happen within the next 30 days. After the suspect arrives back in Auckland, she'll be charged and will appear in the Manukau District Court.
