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, May 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Rival political parties are set to hold a parliamentary plenary session Thursday to pass a special bill mandating a new investigation into the 2022 Itaewon crowd crush that claimed 159 lives. The bill, which was initially railroaded by the main opposition Democratic Party (DP) in January but vetoed by [...]
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, Oct. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Witnesses and survivors on Sunday said an overnight stampede that killed at least 151 people occurred after a massive group of people celebrating Halloween surged into a narrow downhill alley and were instantly pushed down by others. The deadliest stampede in South Korea’s history happened Saturday night in the [...]