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The Itaewon alleyway during the week-long national mourning, 31 October 2022. In early November, the South Korean state announced that it would use the term "accident" instead of "disaster" to avoid damaging Itaewon's reputation as a popular tourist destination. The decision caused public anger.
After the speech, Yoon visited the Itaewon alley where the disaster occurred. Local TV footage showed Yoon inspecting the alley filled with trash and being briefed by emergency officials.
It remained unclear what led the crowd to surge into the downhill alley in the Itaewon area on Saturday night, and authorities promised a thorough investigation. Kim Mi Sung, an official at a ...
The indictment of Seoul police chief Kim Kwang-ho came more than a year after the crowd crush in October 2022, which killed 159 people on a Halloween weekend in the entertainment district of ...
Crush at a narrow alley in the Itaewon district during Halloween celebrations; at least 172 more people were injured. [154] [155] [156] In December 2022, the death of one survivor from suicide was ruled by authorities to have been caused by the disaster, legally declaring him the 159th victim. [157] 11: 30 October 2022: Unnamed: Democratic ...
The Itaewon Burger King Murder took place on April 3, 1997 when 22-year-old Hongik University student Jo Jung-pil (Korean: 조중필; born 1974) was stabbed to death at Burger King in Itaewon. Arthur Patterson, 17 at the time of the incident (born to an American father and a South Korean mother), was the main suspect.
Itaewon, the neighborhood where at least 151 people were killed in a Halloween crowd surge, is Seoul’s most cosmopolitan district, a place where kebab stands and BBQ joints are as big a draw as ...
English: A candlelight vigil-protest of thousands of people was held on the large main street Sejong-daero in Jung-gu, Seoul near Seoul City Hall for the victims of the Seoul Halloween crowd crush at the end of the mourning period on Saturday, November 5, 2022.