The court convicted the chief of the Yongsan Police Station, while acquitting the mayor of the district, prompting an outcry ...

SEOUL - A South Korean court handed a three-year jail term on Sept 30 to a former Seoul district police chief over a crush ...

A Seoul court on Monday sentenced a former district chief of police to three years behind bars without labor over the city's ...

It was the first conviction of officials over the failure by authorities to prevent or adequately respond to the overcrowding ...

A South Korean court has given three police officers prison sentences over their botched handling of a 2022 Halloween crush ...

Former Yongsan Police Station chief Lee Im-jae (C) leaves a courtroom in Seoul on Sept. 30, 2024, after he was sentenced to ...

Anchor] Former Yongsan Police Chief Lee Lim-jae and Yongsan-gu District Commissioner Park Hee-young, who are accused of poor ...

When Yongsan-gu Mayor Park Hee-young, who was tried for poor response to the Itaewon disaster, was acquitted in the first ...

A South Korean court has given three police officers prison sentences over their botched handling of a 2022 Halloween crush in a Seoul nightlife district that killed nearly 160 people ...

A South Korean court sentenced Lee Im-jae, former police chief of Seoul's Yongsan district, to three years in prison for his inadequate response to the 2022 Itaewon Halloween crowd crush that killed ...

Former Seoul Yongsan Police Precinct Chief Lee Im-jae, who was brought to trial on charges of poor response to the Itaewon ...

A court in South Korea has sentenced the former head of the police station overseeing Seoul's Itaewon district to three years in prison over a deadly Halloween crowd crush two years ago.