Seoul crowd crush
‘Our children were treated like criminals’: Parents seek justice a year after deadly Seoul crowd crush
A police inquiry called the Seoul crush that killed 159 a ‘man-made disaster’, yet one year on, victims’ families have no official apology, no independent inquiry and no accountability
Raphael Rashid in Seoul
25, Oct, 2023 @11:23 PM
‘Almost impossible to think about’: the Seoul crowd disaster one year on
A new docuseries revisits the tragedy that killed 159 people and exposed a system that undervalued younger people
David Smith in Washington
18, Oct, 2023 @4:16 PM
Tokyo district mayor urges Halloween revellers to stay away amid crush fears
Ken Hasebe issues warning after 2022 Itaewon tragedy in Seoul, in which more than 150 people died
Justin McCurry in Tokyo
05, Oct, 2023 @8:21 AM
Itaewon crowd crush: thousands join vigil as anger grows in South Korea
Law enforcement concedes insufficient planning as president belatedly expresses regret for disaster
Raphael Rashid in Seoul and agency
05, Nov, 2022 @11:43 AM
‘I can’t be protected’: South Korea’s youth tested again by Itaewon tragedy
Crisis of trust is brewing as young people traumatised by 2014 Sewol ferry disaster grapple with another preventable tragedy
Raphael Rashid in Seoul
04, Nov, 2022 @6:00 PM
Seoul crowd crush: PM and police admit failures as anger grows
Death toll rises to 156, as authorities admit crowd control measures were inadequate before Halloween disaster in Itaewon
Raphael Rashid in Seoul
01, Nov, 2022 @2:37 PM
Crowd crushes: how disasters like Itaewon happen, how can they be prevented, and the ‘stampede’ myth
Crowd crushes are wholly preventable, predictable and avoidable, experts say. Here is what we can learn from the Halloween crowd crush in Seoul
Samantha Lock
01, Nov, 2022 @4:30 AM
South Korea opens investigation into deadly Itaewon crowd crush in Seoul
Shops closed and concerts cancelled after Halloween party surge kills more than 150 people, as questions raised over crowd control
Raphael Rashid in Seoul, Gavin Blair in Tokyo and agencies
31, Oct, 2022 @3:37 PM
A visual guide to how the Seoul Halloween crowd crush unfolded
More than 150 people were killed as mostly young people flooded the narrow, sloping streets of Itaewon to celebrate Halloween
Virginia Harrison and Carly Earl
31, Oct, 2022 @6:09 AM
‘I don’t know how to live’: grief over loved ones lost in Seoul’s deadly Halloween crowd crush
Mothers and fathers tell of excruciating wait for news before learning fate of the missing in South Korea’s worst crowd crush event
Graham Russell, Raphael Rashid and Cait Kelly
31, Oct, 2022 @6:07 AM
‘How could this happen?’: Seoul in disbelief after fatal Halloween crush
Residents gathered in Itaewon try to make sense of Saturday evening’s disaster, in which at least 153 people died
Raphael Rashid in Seoul
30, Oct, 2022 @2:10 PM
‘It was chaos’: how my Halloween night out in Itaewon went from fun to horror
I had seen that part of Seoul busy before, but never like this – I couldn’t move. Then we started hearing fire engines
Raphael Rashid, who was in Itaewon during the crowd crush
30, Oct, 2022 @2:51 AM
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