Lee Receives Briefing on Supermarket Stabbing Rampage at Incheon Police Agency, Orders "Extraordinary Measures Against Violent Crime"

Nine People Injured in Knife Rampage at Incheon Supermarket
Lee: "Focus All Available Resources on Preventing Violent Crime and Responding Swiftly"

President Lee Jae-myung visited the Incheon Metropolitan Police Agency on the 13th, received a briefing on the stabbing rampage at a large supermarket and ordered officials to devise extraordinary measures.

Senior Secretary for Public Relations and Communications Seong Gihong said in a written briefing that day that President Lee had received a report from Yu Seungnyeol, chief of the Incheon Metropolitan Police Agency, on the circumstances of the stabbing rampage at the large supermarket, the status of the investigation and the victims' condition.

President Lee Jaemyung reviews the response to a stabbing rampage at a large supermarket at the Incheon Metropolitan Police Agency on October 13, 2026. Yonhap News.

After calling for a swift and rigorous investigation, President Lee urged officials to pay special attention to necessary measures, including treatment and recovery for the victims and protection of their personal safety. He also ordered them to "devise extraordinary measures to address violent crimes that inflict serious harm on innocent citizens and socially vulnerable people and threaten the public's peaceful daily lives," Senior Secretary Seong said.

President Lee continued, saying, "Protecting the lives and safety of the people is the police's most fundamental and important duty." He urged officials to "devise effective measures to prevent similar incidents from recurring while concentrating all available resources on preventing violent crimes and responding to them swiftly." He also ordered a thorough review of the system for monitoring and supervising people wearing electronic ankle monitors and the development of fundamental measures for improvement.

After completing his schedule in Busan that day, which included attending a ceremony welcoming the Arctic route test voyage and visiting the HMM headquarters unveiling ceremony, President Lee returned to Seoul in the evening and went straight to the Incheon Metropolitan Police Agency. The on-site briefing was attended by Chief of Staff Kang Hoon-sik, Policy Chief Ha Jung-kyung, Senior Secretary for Civil Affairs Han Chansik, acting National Police Agency Commissioner Kim Jongcheol and Incheon Mayor Park Chandae.

Earlier that afternoon, a man in his 50s, identified only as A, who was wearing an electronic ankle monitor, wielded a weapon at a large supermarket in Guwol-dong, Namdong-gu, Incheon, injuring nine people. One person underwent emergency surgery, while the other eight were reported to be in no life-threatening condition. Police apprehended A at the scene and plan to begin a full investigation after taking statements from the victims and gathering evidence.

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