The verdict drew angry responses from grieving relatives and their advocates, who accused the court of refusing to hold ...

A South Korean court found the former police chief of the country’s capital, Seoul, not guilty over a botched response to a ...

Kim Kwang-ho, the former head of the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency, was the most senior official to face criminal charges ...

A South Korean court ruled on Thursday that Seoul's former police chief was not guilty of negligence in the response to a ...

SEOUL, South Korea -- A South Korean court found the former police chief of the country's capital and two other officers ...

A South Korean court acquitted the former Seoul police chief and two officers Thursday of professional negligence over a deadly 2022 Halloween crowd crush that killed more than 150 people, an official ...

A court in South Korea found the former police chief of the capital Seoul and two other officers not guilty over a botched ...

A Seoul court on Thursday acquitted a former head of the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency (SMPA) over the deadly 2022 ...

The popular annual event has taken on a serious public safety dimension as memory is still fresh of a Halloween night disaster two years ago that killed 159 mostly young people in a crowd crush in ...

The precaution comes as the country still grapples with the 2022 Halloween disaster in Seoul's Itaewon nightlife district blamed on failed crowd control. On Monday, the police chief of that ...

SEOUL - A large fireworks festival in South ... disaster two years ago that killed 159 mostly young people in a crush of crowd packed in a dense entertainment district. Many of the more than ...