SEOUL – A year after 159 Halloween revellers were killed in a crowd crush in South Korea, the capital’s night-life district of Itaewon was quiet on Saturday, the area’s usual festivities replaced by mourning for those died. In the days before Halloween, seasonal...
People walk through a CCTV monitored alley in Itaewon, where the Halloween crowd crush occurred last year, in Seoul, South Korea, October 23, 2023. REUTERS/Kim Soo-hyeon/File Photo
In the days before Halloween, seasonal decorations normally adorn the alleys that house the district’s hottest nightclubs and bars, but this year posters and flowers commemorating the dead took their place, and young people celebrated elsewhere. The crowd surge last year led to the crush in a narrow alley in Itaewon, a disaster that many people in Seoul blamed on a lack of preparation and crowd control measures, with early calls for help going unanswered. Most of the people who died were aged in their 20s and 30s.
Many people were still looking for other places to join Halloween festivities, such as Hongdae, another popular spot among the young.
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