Halloween 2022 Street Celebration in Itaewon Leads to One of the Worst Casualties in South Korean History with Nearly 150 Dead in Crowd Crush
This is absolutely heartbreaking and horrifying so please if you have a trigger warning don’t look at some of the pictures below. On Saturday night October 29th in the Itaewon neighborhood in South Korea, famous for being trendy, clubby, and cool, a crowd stampede due to an excessive number of people swarming there for Halloween celebrations has currently lead to close to 150 deaths and double that number of injuries. The death and injured are still being cared for and counted as it’s an unbelievably large scale for a developed country like South Korea. The main cause was people swarmed specifically into one narrow alley way, and there are many small alleys in Itaewon, for reasons that could be someone yelling about a celebrity sighting ahead or simply crowd surge sending many people into what is a narrow crevice. The deaths are being attributed to cardiac arrest which means people were crushed to death (heart stopped) standing up rather than asphyxiation which is when one cannot breath being underneath something. This is currently a developing news story.
Praying for the injured and sending condolences to those who died 🙏🏻🙏🏻 This is very unfortunate
That’s unbelievable!! They should have a crowd control by counting how many enters the area from now on. R.I.P. for the victims. Hopefully the injured will recovers soon.
This wasn’t a single event organiser event so no one could take responsibility. You can google reports.
Tragedy, no words. May they rest in peace. It could happen anywhere.
I think the celeb spotting was a red herring. They didn’t suffocate standing up. There was a short clip where a wall of people stuck together. Like some horror film. Some responder trying to pull one out but couldn’t. I believe some may have tripped and started a chain reaction where the end of the road was blocked by this wall of people. So yes many were crushed and trampled. It is just insane.
This is o sad. May their souls rest in peace. My prayers and thought are with all of the victim’s families and South Korea.
I remember thinking about a situation like this possibly happening while watching that scene from Itaewon Class. The streets just looked so small for so many people hanging about.
Whatever happened to crowd control and policing? Feeling so sad for for the dead, injured, their families & friends.
Omona! I hope those families of the victims will be comforted. I hope the next time, they will be more careful in handling street parties like this to avoid severe accidents. This is really too much.😢😢😢
I wonder if China was the one who got the tragedy, what would internet say? I’m sure most would say condolences, but it would be easier to find hate comments (like: it’s karma, the victims number were higher (suggesting cover-up), it’s better for Chinese to be dead they’re overpopulate after all, and other hate comments 🤷🏻♀️) in news related to China rather than its neighbours. Can you find any hate comments in this news? I bet you can’t. I won’t say racist, sinophobic is the right word.
You are being so ridiculous just by stating this. What the heck of ‘comparing’ is this or what is this what ‘if happened this to China’. The government of China is the one being so stubborn not the citizen. Likewise, here the citizen of SK got hurt and wounded, so even the country is China or South Korea, surely , it will be the same sympathy that you will see and read here.
I know right. What the heck, that’s such a ridiculous comment. Not the time and place for that kind of comparison. People died in a really tragic way and this person is making it about China 🙄
Absolutely terrible. This is way worse than what happened in Germany in 2010 with 21 people dead. After that incident a lot has changed concerning crowded public places.
I was immediately reminded of that too. I am still traumatized by that tragedy and furious at the fact that officials got away scott-free because the statute of limitations ran out.
I hope the police and prosecutors in South Korea will do a better job in giving the victims and their families answers and a form of closure.
My heart goes out to all the people that were there in that street and their families.
Unbelievable, how could something like that happen in South Korea . As an European . I feel deep saddeness for all the families, friends of the victims . 6 years ago, in my country we suffered a tragedy when just after the end of the 14 th July ‘s fireworks a terrorist ploughed through the crowds ( 30 000 persons) of the La promenade des Anglais( Nice) with a ram truck, killing 86 people .Here is not the case but the result is the same : people who wanted just have some fun, died .
Sunday 30 october , in India , over 132 p died after a suspension bridge collapsed people were celebrating a religious festival .
I can see how this could happen.
Seoul, Tokyo etc … all have those many narrow alleyways, quaint buildings and hordes and hordes of people.
Many alleys in Seoul are all like Itaewon’s labyrinth of little lanes connecting to other little lanes. Labyrinth of tunnels connecting to other tunnels. Skinny buildings 4 storeys high – all linked by one stairway only, and one elevator. Huge fire hazard too.
Itaewon, Myeondong, Hongdae, Ewha, Namdaemum etc – on Fridays and weekends they’re jammed packed with young people, students …nevermind even worse – an event for partying, like Halloween.
Itaewon’s also known for its many fake branded goods.