The leader of the police in Seoul has been accused of not doing his job after a Halloween accident that killed 159 young people in South Korea.
Kim Kwang-ho is the top police officer who has been accused in connection to the tragedy, as reported by the local news.
He is being blamed for not having enough police officers in Itaewon, central Seoul, on October 29, 2022.
Over 100,000 people were in that place that night.
Some of the families of the victims are glad that someone was charged, but they think it should have been done sooner.
Mr Kim, who is in charge of the Seoul Police, was not working on 29 October when something bad happened. He was at home.
Authorities say that 137 police officers were sent to Itaewon that night.
There were a lot more young people in the Itaewon entertainment district than there were police officers.
Something seemed wrong in 2022 just after 6:30 pm, a few hours before the deadly crowd accident happened in a side street.
Most of the people who died that night were in their twenties.
In January 2023, a report said that city and emergency responders did not plan well and did not respond to emergencies correctly.
It was found that nothing was done to prevent the emergency, and the right actions were not taken after people asked for help.
Investigators also said that because people didn’t understand what was happening, they didn’t share information on time and different groups didn’t work together.
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Head of Seoul police accused of tragic Halloween crush
