159 people were killed while celebrating Halloween in Seoul’s nightlife district of Itaewon.
SEOUL: One year after Park Young-soo lost her only son in a Halloween weekend crowd crush that killed 159 people in the South Korean capital, she still can’t bring herself to open the door to his room.
Like Park’s 29-year-old son, Lee Nam-hoon, most victims were young people who went to Seoul’s nightlife district of Itaewon on Oct 29 for its famed Halloween parties. Gatherings have not been banned in Itaewon over Halloween this year though authorities and police have been conducting crowd-control drills featuring an AI-backed network of nearly 1,000 closed-circuit TV cameras, ahead of the first anniversary of the disaster.
“Our top priority is people’s lives and safety; the government will continue to assess the national safety system and make necessary improvements,” the office said. A bill, backed by the opposition, has yet to be passed by the national assembly without the support of the ruling People Power Party. Kim Young-nam, a mother who lost her daughter in the crush, said she wanted to restore the honour of victims subjected to baseless accusations of drug taking, and what critics said amounted to victim blaming for going out to mark the foreign festival of Halloween.
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