SEOUL, Jan. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – The opposition-led National Assembly on Tuesday passed a special bill on the launch of a committee to reopen an investigation into a deadly 2022 crowd crush in Seoul’s Itaewon district. The bill, approved at a plenary meeting, aims to provide support to the victims and their bereaved family members [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – A year after the deadly crowd crush in Seoul’s Itaewon district that claimed 159 lives, survivors and bereaved families still seek the truth behind the bungled disaster response and a proper closure to their loss. The crowd crush, the deadliest ever in South Korea, took place in the nightlife [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – A set of memorials will be installed in commemoration of last year’s deadly crowd crush in Seoul’s Itaewon district on the occasion of the tragedy’s first anniversary next month, bereaved families said Friday. The crowd crush killed 159 people, many of them women in their 20s, on a narrow, [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — At 6:34 p.m. on Saturday, tens of thousands of cellphone lights illuminated the night sky throughout Sejong-daero in central Seoul. Participants joining in a memorial gathering for the victims of the Itaewon crowd crush turned on the lights at the same time that the first emergency call was made [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Photos and videos of the Itaewon crowd crush on YouTube and other social media platforms are exacerbating the trauma among victims and their families as well as the public. A 29-year-old office worker surnamed Lee who lost a friend in the stampede unintentionally ran into a YouTube video of [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoulites, living in one of the world’s most congested metropolitan cities, are reflecting on the dangers of overcrowding following the Itaewon crowd crush. Just like any other day, the evening rush hour in Seoul is met by heavy congestion in the subway. Now, however, people seem to have a [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s two major tech giants — Kakao Corp. and Naver Corp. — have begun a crackdown on imitation police costumes on their e-commerce platforms in response to the controversy that fake police costumes obstructed the process of containing the Itaewon crowd crush. Naver banned all searches for imitation [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korean Medical Association on Tuesday released a statement asking journalists to exercise caution when posting articles about the Itaewon crowd crush in the press or on social media. The statement said secondary damages are being generated from uncensored, provocative articles and press, and that excessive media coverage should be [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The facility that had temporarily accommodated the bodies of the victims of the deadly Halloween crowd crush in Seoul has now turned into a lost-and-found center storing items collected from Itaewon. A gymnasium in Yongsan ward is currently storing hundreds of clothes, bags, shoes and glasses found at the [...]