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Seoul crowd crush


October 2024

  • Bereaved people react outside the Seoul western district court in Seoul where three police officers were given jail sentences but Yongsan city ward officials were acquitted over the Itaewon crowd crush

    Seoul crowd crush police sent to jail for deadly failings in Itaewon disaster

    South Korean court hands out three jail terms, one of them suspended, to officers for professional negligence after 159 mostly young people died

February 2024

  • The scene of the crush

    Seoul police officers sentenced for deleting Halloween crush evidence

    Pair are first police officials to be sentenced over 2022 disaster in which nearly 160 people died

January 2024

  • Photos of victims of the Itaewon crowd crush fill a marquee in Seoul, South Korea, last October as visitors pay their respects

    South Korea crowd crush: Seoul police chief charged over Halloween disaster in which 158 died

    Kim Kwang-ho accused of negligence in failing to ‘take necessary measures’ to prevent 2022 disaster in capital’s Itaewon nightlife district

October 2023

  • April 5, 2023, Cho Mi-eun (L) cries as her husband Lee Jong-chul kneels down while trying to comfort her, in the alleyway where their 24-year-old son Lee Ji-han was killed during a Halloween crowd crush in the popular Itaewon district of Seoul in October last year.

    ‘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
  • promo art for Crush

    ‘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
  • Japan’s Shibuya crossing.

    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

November 2022

  • Mourners take part in a candlelight vigil to commemorate the 156 people killed in the 29 October Halloween crowd crush in the Itaewon district of Seoul.

    Itaewon crowd crush: thousands join vigil as anger grows in South Korea

  • A woman pays tribute to the victims of the Halloween crowd crush, on an Itaewon street near to the scene.

    ‘I can’t be protected’: South Korea’s youth tested again by Itaewon tragedy

  • A mourner kneels next to floral tributes near the site of a crowd crush that happened during Halloween festivities, in Seoul.

    Seoul crowd crush: local police offices raided in investigation

  • Shoes retrieved by police from the scene of the fatal Halloween crowd surge in Seoul.

    Seoul crowd crush: PM and police admit failures as anger grows

  • Seoul mayor makes tearful apology over Halloween crush – video

  • Crowd crushes: how disasters like Itaewon happen, how can they be prevented, and the ‘stampede’ myth

31 October 2022

  • Women pray for victims of a deadly accident following Saturday night's Halloween festivities on the street near the scene in Seoul.

    South Korea opens investigation into deadly Itaewon crowd crush in Seoul

  • Grace Rached

    ‘She was loved by all’: family pay tribute to Australian woman Grace Rached who died in South Korea crowd crush

  • The site of a crowd crush accident in Itaewon, a district of Seoul, South Korea.

    A visual guide to how the Seoul Halloween crowd crush unfolded

  • A Buddhist nun prays at a makeshift memorial outside a subway station in the district of Itaewon in Seoul in tribute to those who died in Saturday’s crowd crush event.

    ‘I don’t know how to live’: grief over loved ones lost in Seoul’s deadly Halloween crowd crush

30 October 2022

  • A man wearing a face covering crouches down to leave a tribute near the scene of the crush as a crowd of people with cameras look on

    ‘How could this happen?’: Seoul in disbelief after fatal Halloween crush

  • Rescue workers behind police tape

    At least 153 killed in crowd crush during Halloween festivities in Seoul

  • The aftermath of the crush

    Australian among people killed in Halloween crush in South Korea

  • Ambulances in Seoul’s nightlife district of Itaewon after a crowd crush in an alley left at least 150 dead and 150 more injured

    ‘It was chaos’: how my Halloween night out in Itaewon went from fun to horror

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