A special investigation committee into Seoul's 2022 Itaewon crowd crush reported that about 10% of the 159 victims may have died from causes other than suffocation, suggesting more lives could have been saved with more active rescue efforts.
The prosecution has requested a one-year prison sentence for a 50-year-old man accused of posting false information about the victims and bereaved families of the Sewol and Itaewon disasters. The man allegedly spread false claims on his blog, including that the Sewol victims' families were the same as the Itaewon victims' families and that the Itaewon disaster was a planned event. He also posted insulting remarks targeting the Sewol victims' families. The sentencing is scheduled for next month.
A former store owner in Itaewon, who died by suicide after experiencing trauma from helping victims of the 2022 crowd crush, has been officially recognized as a victim of the disaster by the South Korean government.
A man in his 60s was sentenced to six months in prison for defaming victims of the 10.29 Itaewon disaster by falsely claiming they were murdered by a drug cartel. This is the first prison sentence for a case investigated by the police's 'Secondary Harm Criminal Investigation Division,' established by President Lee Jae-myung's directive.
SEOUL, May 8 (Yonhap) -- A special investigation committee on the 2022 Itaewon c...
