SEOUL, Oct. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea saw its foreign population shrink by 1 percent last year from the previous year, marking a decline for the second year in a row, the interior ministry said Monday. According to a report by the Ministry of the Interior and Safety, the number of foreign residents had [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — In the midst of a slight increase in the nation’s cumulative car registrations in the third quarter of this year, the number of new registrations of compact cars and eco-friendly cars took an upturn, data showed Sunday. The nation’s cumulative car registrations stood at 25,356,000 in the third quarter [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — White mourning flowers and condolence gifts have been laid, and stores bearing condolence messages suspended business in Seoul’s Itaewon district Monday, as South Korea mourned the country’s deadliest crowd crush in the neighborhood amid soul-searching about what went wrong. Mourning altars laden with white chrysanthemums also opened across the [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — A witness of the deadly Halloween crush in Seoul’s Itaewon district that killed at least 154 people has shared his horrific experience of carrying dead bodies and watching people, many in their 20s, suffocate to death. “I think I carried, like, 50 bodies,” a man in his 20s working [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Social media and online portal operators in South Korea urged users Sunday to refrain from spreading disturbing video footage or ungrounded information about the deadly stampede at Itaewon that killed over 150 people. Kakao, the operator of No. 1 online messenger KakaoTalk, made the call in a notice to [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s new COVID-19 cases stayed below 40,000 for a fourth straight day Sunday amid growing concerns over a possible outbreak of a “twindemic” of COVID-19 and seasonal influenza this winter. The country reported 34,511 new COVID-19 infections, including 46 from overseas, bringing the total to 25,538,799, the Korea [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — A sudden surge of Halloween crowds instantly packed a narrow 4-meter-wide downhill alley in Seoul’s Itaewon district, with hundreds left unable to move or escape, before some began to fall over and knock others down, resulting in the deadliest stampede in South Korea, witnesses and authorities said Sunday. At [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Most Halloween festivals, events and parades, as well as shows by K-pop stars have been canceled, their organizers and the government said Sunday, as the country mourns the deaths of at least 153 people in an overnight stampede. At least 103 others were injured after being crushed in a [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Witnesses and survivors on Sunday said an overnight stampede that killed at least 151 people occurred after a massive group of people celebrating Halloween surged into a narrow downhill alley and were instantly pushed down by others. The deadliest stampede in South Korea’s history happened Saturday night in the [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Itaewon, the site of Saturday’s deadly stampede that killed at least 149 people, is known for its hip nightlife and chic restaurants, making it a favorite hangout among young people in their 20s and beyond. Itaewon’s bars and clubs have long served American troops stationed in the country as [...]