SEOUL, Oct. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul city government will deploy patrol forces and implement traffic controls in the city’s 15 most crowded districts during the upcoming Halloween week to prevent overcrowding, officials said Wednesday. The city has designated a “concentrated Halloween safety management period” from Friday to Nov. 3 to enhance patrols and [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — A Seoul court is set to deliver verdicts Monday for the Yongsan Ward office chief and a former chief of the Yongsan Police Station over the deadly 2022 crowd crush in the district of Itaewon. Park Hee-young, head of the Yongsan Ward office, and former Yongsan Police Station chief [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – The Seoul Metropolitan Government announced on April 10 that it will pursue the development of crowd density maps and safety indices to establish systematic countermeasures against crowd safety incidents. The city is currently accepting bids for a research project, with the goal of commencing the study next month once a [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — There was some confusion over do’s and don’ts on the first day of the ‘living with COVID-19′ campaign across the nation. It stood out even more in places that fans of spectator sports have been looking forward to visiting for a long time: baseball parks or football stadiums. On [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean baseball league announced Thursday its postseason participants will play before larger crowds than they did during the regular season, while also unveiling tighter health protocols for both players and fans during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The Korea Baseball Organization (KBO), following talks with the sports ministry [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Beginning with games Tuesday evening, the cap on the size of crowds at South Korean baseball games during the coronavirus-hit season will be raised to 25 percent of capacity. The government last week gave the green light for the Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) to start operating stadiums at 30 [...]
GWANGJU, Jul. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Partisan fans attending events ranging from artistic swimming to diving to water polo during the first week of the FINA World Championships in Gwangju have been boisterous in support of their homegrown athletes. In turn, these athletes have spoken glowingly about their loud and passionate fans. This is the [...]