The MTA has agreed to pay a $750,000 settlement to the family of a Queens man who died when he was shoved in front of an oncoming Q train at a Manhattan subway station nearly a decade ago.
Ki Suk Han’s widow and daughter brought a $30 million wrongful-death suit against the transit authority in 2013, claiming the conductor should have stopped the train before it hit their loved one at the 49th Street station on Dec. 3, 2012.
“I think they are very relieved that this is coming to an end,” Han family lawyer Charen Kim told The Post following a court hearing Wednesday about the settlement agreement.
Speaking through a translator, Han’s widow, Se Rim Han, 64, told the judge she agreed to the amount, and wanted to give up her half of the money so the couple’s now-29-year-old daughter, Ashley, could have the whole payout.
“It’s been a long battle against the Transit Authority for 10 years,” their attorney said. “There were so many delays … they are finally at a point where they can close this chapter of their life and move on.”
The MTA had previously tried to argue that Naeem Davis, the homeless man who shoved Han, should be the one to pay.
Davis was cleared of murder charges by a Manhattan jury in 2017 after his lawyer argued that Han was drunk and belligerent, and that his client had pushed the man in self-defense.
A freelance Post photographer had captured the moment just before the Q train barreled into the station and crushed Han, an image that made the front page of the newspaper at the time.
“Unfortunately, during the criminal trial the family was very disappointed but fortunately with the civil case they seem to be more satisfied,” Kim said.
While the settlement amount is much less than the $30 million the Han family sued for, they didn’t want to live through a trial and any potential media attention that would come with it, the attorney said.
“I don’t think that the family wanted to go through the grief of trial again,” Kim said. “It would have been weeks and weeks of testimony. They did not want to relive what they lived through.”
Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Nancy Bannon said she was going to sign and finalize the settlement agreement within the next day.
Lawyers for the family will receive nearly $290,000 of the total sum. Han’s widow declined to comment.
It is unclear if the MTA — which previously blamed Davis, saying he should be on the hook for damages — will seek to recoup any of the settlement money from him.
The Transit Authority said it can’t comment on pending litigation.
