A Seoul court suspended a police ban on assemblies and demonstrations near the new presidential office in Seoul's Yongsan District, prompting the police to appeal the ruling.

According to the ruling by the Seoul Administrative Court on Wednesday, the presidential office is not legally equivalent to the presidential residence, where rallies and assemblies are banned within 100 meters.

The court added a condition stipulating that the events should be restricted to a maximum duration of one-and-a-half hours in consideration of security and traffic congestion.

This comes after President Yoon Suk Yeol relocated the presidential office to the former defense ministry headquarters in Yongsan, while designating the former foreign minister's residence in the same district as the new presidential home.

The police, arguing that the president's office is a part of the executive residence as it pertains to laws relating to assemblies and protests, planned to appeal.

Earlier, a civic group representing sexual minorities filed a petition after the police banned their planned march from Yongsan Station to Itaewon on Saturday, passing by the new executive compound.