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

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Lee: "Focus All Available Resources on Preventing Violent Crime and Responding Swiftly"

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

In a written briefing that day, Seong Gihong, Senior Secretary for Public Relations and Communications at the Blue House, said President Lee had received a report from Yoo Seungyeol, chief of the Incheon Metropolitan Police Agency, on the circumstances of the incident, the status of the investigation, and the victims' conditions.

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

President Lee went on to say, "Protecting the lives and safety of the public is the police's most fundamental and important duty," and urged officials to "prepare effective measures to prevent similar incidents from happening again, while focusing all their capabilities on preventing violent crimes and responding to them swiftly." He also instructed them to thoroughly review the system for managing and supervising people wearing electronic ankle monitors and to prepare fundamental measures for improvement.

President Lee visited the Incheon Metropolitan Police Agency immediately after returning to Seoul that evening, having completed his schedule in Busan, which included attending a ceremony welcoming the trial voyage along the Arctic shipping route and visiting the unveiling ceremony at HMM's headquarters. Kang Hoonsik, chief of staff; Ha Joongkyung, policy chief; Han Chansik, senior secretary for civil affairs; Kim Jongcheol, acting commissioner general of the Korean National Police Agency; and Park Chandae, mayor of Incheon, attended the briefing at the scene.

Earlier that afternoon, a man in his 50s, identified 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 victim underwent emergency surgery, while the other eight were reported to have no life-threatening injuries. Police apprehended A at the scene and plan to begin a full-scale investigation after taking statements from the victims and collecting evidence.

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