The president hammered home far-right canards in his last statement of his impeachment trial, egging on his supporters and laying the foundation for defying the court’s ruling ...

The court also acquitted two lower-ranking police officers who faced similar charges. Itaewon Disaster Bereaved Families, a group representing the victims of the crush, said the ruling was ...

Saurav Bajoria, an Indian expat living in Seoul, arrived at Itaewon at around 10 p.m on ... something you would see in a disaster movie." Minutes earlier, hundreds of people had begun to fall ...

In February, South Korea’s opposition-controlled parliament voted to impeach the safety minister, Lee Sang-min, over the Itaewon disaster. But the Constitutional Court in July overturned Lee’s ...

This alarming trend of hostility mirrors previous national tragedies. In both the Sewol Ferry disaster and the Itaewon crowd crush, bereaved families were subjected to public mockery and harmful ...

But as mourners leave written tributes and white chrysanthemums, “a symbol of grief in South Korea”, near the disaster scene in Seoul’s Itaewon district, anger and “accusations have been ...

It has been a year since Park Young-soo lost her only son in a Halloween weekend crowd crush that killed 159 people in Seoul but she is not yet able to bring herself to open the door to his room.

154 people were killed during Halloween celebrations in Seoul’s Itaewon neighborhood, South Korea's deadliest disaster since 2014.

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