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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Sept. 30 (UPI) --A Seoul court on Monday sentenced a former district chief of police to three years behind bars without labor over the city's tragic crowd crush of Halloween weekend 2022 ...

The former head of a local police station in Seoul has been sentenced to three years in jail over a deadly 2022 Halloween crowd crush, making him the highest-ranking law enforcement official to be ...

As the crowd crush was developing ... Lee to prison on Monday, the western district court in Seoul said the danger in Itaewon was “predictable.” Mr. Lee, the three-judge panel ruled, failed ...