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Air crash tests South Korea's acting president 2 days into job
Reuters, Published on 29/12/2024
» SEOUL - When South Korea's acting President Choi Sang-mok arrived at the scene of the deadliest air disaster on the country's soil on Sunday, he had been on the job for less than 48 hours.
Police leaders jailed in South Korea over 'man-made' fatal Halloween crush
Reuters, Published on 01/10/2024
» SEOUL: A South Korean court on Monday sentenced the former police chief of a district of Seoul to three years in prison for a botched response to a deadly Halloween crowd crush in the capital's Itaewon nightlife district in 2022.
Little change a year after Seoul tragedy
By Choe Sang-Hun, The New York Times, Published on 21/10/2023
» SEOUL - From the beginning, with the grief still raw and anguished questions unanswered, the South Korean government distanced itself from the disaster that unfolded last year on a Halloween weekend in Seoul.
'Overwhelming': S. Korean families' grief compounded by online abuse
AFP, Published on 10/04/2023
» SEOUL - First, he lost his child in Seoul's Halloween crowd crush. Then came a torrent of online abuse, upending his family's once-private life and making him an internet-wide figure of mockery.
Deadly Seoul crush blamed on ‘negligence’
Published on 13/01/2023
» SEOUL: South Korean police on Friday blamed negligence and planning failures for the Halloween crowd crush in Seoul that killed more than 150 people.
Five dead in Korean road tunnel fire
Published on 29/12/2022
» SEOUL: Five people have been killed and dozens injured after a bus and truck crash caused a huge fire at an expressway tunnel on the outskirts of Seoul, according to the local fire department.
Candlelight vigils mourn South Korea Halloween disaster victims
AFP, Published on 06/11/2022
» Candlelight vigils and rallies were held in South Korea on Saturday to commemorate the 156 people killed in a Halloween crowd crush, with public anger growing over one of the country's deadliest peacetime disasters.
Seoul police headquarters raided after crowd surge deaths
Bloomberg, Published on 02/11/2022
» A team of special investigators has raided the headquarters of the Seoul police force, a move that comes as authorities released records of frantic emergency calls warning that crowds of partygoers were growing dangerously large in the hours before a crush that killed at least 156 people.
S. Korea police chief says crowd surge response was 'insufficient'
AFP, Published on 01/11/2022
» SEOUL: South Korea's police chief said Tuesday that officers had received multiple urgent reports of danger ahead of a deadly crowd crush at a Halloween event but their handling of them was "insufficient".
South Korea mourns Halloween crowd surge victims
AFP, Published on 31/10/2022
» SEOUL: South Koreans flocked Monday to memorials honouring the 154 people killed in a crowd surge at Halloween celebrations, as authorities faced accusations that lax crowd control had caused the disaster.