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The Seoul Halloween Crowd Crush left hundreds dead and injured in Itaewon. What caused this tragedy? Here’s everything we know so far about that horrific night. Peter Navarro: We are going to ...
SEOUL-President Yoon Suk-yeol expressed his condolences as South Korea on Oct 29 marked the second anniversary of the Itaewon crowd crush that claimed 159 lives in October 2022. “Today marks the ...
was indicted in January on charges of professional negligence in connection with Korea's worst-ever crowd crush that left 159 people dead on the Halloween weekend in Seoul's Itaewon nightlife ...
passersby in Seoul’s vibrant neighbourhoods of Hongdae and Itaewon were confronted with some unexplained street art. Mysterious shield emblems had suddenly appeared across the streets.
In Itaewon, a multicultural neighborhood in Seoul known for Halloween celebrations, a countless number of people were packed into a 4-yard-wide, 43-yard-long sloping alleyway. People tripped and ...
Park and Kim are the first police officers to be convicted over the Itaewon disaster. In January, Kim Kwang-ho, the head of the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency, was charged with professional ...
Seoul’s police chief has been indicted for negligence over the 2022 crowd crush that killed more than 150 people during Halloween festivities in the popular Itaewon neighborhood that left the ...
Four police dispatches were sent out to Itaewon, which had hosted Halloween celebrations in Seoul for years. But crowds had already swelled and the streets became so packed that partygoers were ...
The authorities in Seoul were out in force over the weekend, but the crowds in the typically bustling neighborhood were sparse. Credit... Supported by Photographs by Chang W. Lee Text by Inyoung ...
SEOUL -- On the Saturday before Halloween last year, Lee Ju-hyun arrived in Seoul's Itaewon neighborhood looking forward to a night out with two friends she had known since high school.
SEOUL: The narrow alleyway in Seoul where nearly 160 people ... but the night turned deadly in the capital's Itaewon district with no effective crowd control and bungled official responses to calls ...