Tue, 21-Oct-2025

Senior officials spared blame in Itaewon crush report

Itaewon crush

159 individuals, largely young people who were out partying, died in crush. Mr. Lee, whose 28-year-old daughter Lee Joo-young died in the crush. “These multiple overlapping failures lead to vast number of human casualties” . The long-awaited investigation into the fatal crowd crush in Seoul last October has largely absolved senior government officials of any … Read more

Two former Seoul cops arrests over Halloween crush

Halloween crush

Former intelligence agents Park Sung-min and Kim Jin-ho of the Yongsan Police have been taken into custody. They allegedly told subordinates to trash a report about Halloween crowds in Itaewon. Call logs show that the police received 11 increasingly urgent emergency calls requesting crowd control and then rescuers. Two former police officers were detained on … Read more