{"id":61306,"date":"2024-01-20T13:47:26","date_gmt":"2024-01-20T04:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/20\/south-korea-crowd-crush-seoul-police-chief-charged-over-halloween-disaster-in-which-158-died"},"modified":"2024-01-20T13:47:26","modified_gmt":"2024-01-20T04:47:26","slug":"south-korea-crowd-crush-seoul-police-chief-charged-over-halloween-disaster-in-which-158-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=61306","title":{"rendered":"South Korea crowd crush: Seoul police chief charged over Halloween disaster in which 158 died"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kim Kwang-ho accused of negligence in failing to \u2018take necessary measures\u2019 to prevent 2022 disaster in capital\u2019s Itaewon nightlife district<\/p>\n<p>Seoul\u2019s chief of police has been charged with professional negligence over the deadly Halloween crush in 2022 that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/31\/how-did-the-seoul-itaewon-halloween-crowd-crush-happen-unfolded-a-visual-guide\">killed nearly 160 people<\/a>, prosecutors in the South Korean capital have said.<\/p>\n<p>Kim Kwang-ho, head of the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency (SMPA), was charged with professional negligence resulting in injury or death, Seoul\u2019s western district prosecutors\u2019 office said in a statement released on Friday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/20\/south-korea-crowd-crush-seoul-police-chief-charged-over-halloween-disaster-in-which-158-died\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kim Kwang-ho accused of negligence in failing to \u2018take necessary measures\u2019 to prevent 2022 disaster in capital\u2019s Itaewon nightlife districtSeoul\u2019s chief of police has been charged with professional negligence over the deadly Halloween crush in 2022 tha&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,2798,222],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-seoul-crowd-crush","category-south-korea"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61307,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61306\/revisions\/61307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}