The Seoul Metropolitan Government announced Thursday that it will implement a system that alerts authorities of overcrowded areas. The city government’s new safety plan comes nearly a year after the deadly Halloween crowd crush that killed 159 people in the neighborhood of Itaewon in 2022, and is intended to prevent similar accidents from occurring in the future. The city government stated that it will implemen.
Families of the victims of a fatal Japanese stampede in 2001 visited Seoul on Friday to console the families of the victims of last year s Itaewon crowd crush.
Any tragedy has a more emotional impact if you are familiar with the place where it happened. As a result, I watched in horror a couple of weeks ago from my home in a Washington, D.C. suburb a CNN correspondent, standing in front of the Hamilton Hotel in Itaewon, reporting that many people had died from being crushed in a crowd as they celebrated Halloween.
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The death toll in the fatal Halloween celebration in Itaewon district in Yongsan, Seoul on Oct. 29 rose to 154 including 26 foreigners.
As South Korea celebrated its first full-scale Halloween celebration in two years, tragedy happened at about 10:15 p.m. on Oct. 29 when a crowd crush occurred i