By Choe Sang-Hun Reporting from Seoul A Seoul court sentenced a senior police officer to three ... nearly 160 people in 2022 in one of South Korea’s worst peacetime disasters.

SEOUL, South Korea — 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 ...

He is the most senior police officer to be convicted ... Public outrage turned toward South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and his government at the time, with critics decrying the lack of ...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A South Korean court gave three police officers prison sentences on Monday over their botched handling of a 2022 Halloween crush in a Seoul nightlife district that ...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A South Korean court gave three police officers prison sentences on Monday over their botched handling of a 2022 Halloween crush in a Seoul nightlife district that ...

South Korea’s anti-corruption agency says impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol has been detained hours after the hundreds of the agency’s investigators and police officers arrived at his ...

A conviction for rebellion carries a maximum penalty of death. South Korean police said they sent officers to search Yoon’s office on Wednesday to look for any evidence related to the martial ...

SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea’s national police chief and top police officer for the capital, Seoul, were detained for their roles in enforcing President Yoon Suk Yeol’s short-lived ...

South Korean authorities are weighing a proposal that would allow drivers with medical conditions, including dementia, to ...

South Korean police have banned former Prime Minister Han Duck-soo and ex-Finance Minister Choi Sang-mok from travelling ...