Relatives of the young victims said their pain has not subsided. Attendees at the event demanded that senior officials be held accountable over the disaster, which killed 159 people.
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Since the Seoul Halloween crowd crush in October last year, exchanges have gotten under way between bereaved family members in South Korea and Japan to glean lessons from the deadly accident and other such incidents that have occurred in recent years in both countries to prevent future tragedies.
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.