Itaewon crowd crush

South Korean authorities said Monday they had no guidelines to handle the huge crowds that gathered for Halloween festivities in Seoul, as families in the ...

Grace always cared about others and she was loved by all,” the family wrote. Authorities are now working with foreign embassies and families overseas, offering support with funeral arrangements. I love you.’ And I never got a response back,” Steve said. I want to see my daughter as soon as possible.” People also paid respects at a makeshift memorial in Itaewon, outside a subway station near the alley where the crush occurred. Grace always made others feel important and her kindness left an impression on everyone she ever met. “Maybe in a half hour before this tragedy event took place, I texted him in WhatsApp … Official memorial altars were set up in central Seoul Monday, with photos showing crowds visiting to pay their respects. So, I just passed out,” Chevalier said. “He had an incredibly bright future that is now gone.” However, he admitted, “currently there is no separate preparation manual for such a situation where there is no organizer and a gathering of a crowd is expected.” Moreover, the police had been deployed not for crowd control – but for crime prevention and to prevent “various illegal activities.” Earlier on Sunday, the minister of the interior and safety said only a “normal” level of security personnel had been deployed to Itaewon because the crowd there did not seem unusually large – whereas a “considerable number” of police had been sent to another part of Seoul in response to expected protests.

Preventing another tragedy like this involves monitoring and regulating the number of people in such spaces, and increasing education and awareness, ...

So that, I think, would be your fundamental analysis - understanding the areas and then look at who's responsible for the safety of the public,” he said. “Is this (on the) local authorities? And as a result of that, there will be not much possibility for people to rescue themselves unfortunately.” But that possibility is not available to everybody, he said. No person can decide where to go or how to react,” said the senior lecturer in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering. In the German incident, 21 people were crushed to death when panic broke out in a congested tunnel during the electronic dance music festival.

Mr Koh Ming En was caught in the crush at Itaewon and was separated from his friends, but he managed to make it out to safety, suffering some cuts.

One of them, who wanted to be known only as Farah, said she was at Hongdae with her mother, 60, and her 18-month-old toddler. Many of the partygoers were wearing masks and Halloween costumes. “I was the last one to get out. Singaporeans on holiday in South Korea told ST they were shocked by the tragedy. Describing the scene, Ms Brock said: “Some people were on stretchers, but many were carried by their limbs, their faces blue. Holding on to what looked like a wire, he inched his way along the ledge and reached an area that was relatively spacious. Rescue services arrived later and let them out of the club at around 11.30pm (10.30pm in Singapore). Mr Koh decided to slide down a sloping shophouse roof that was near the ledge and jumped onto some rubbish bags before making it to safety. She was later pulled into an alcove of a club’s entranceway. “We heard a couple of isolated screams from up ahead and saw people filming. “When I was standing on the ledge... I tried but couldn’t do it because it was dangerous,” said Mr Koh.

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol visited an altar set up near Seoul City Hall to mourn the 154 people killed in a crowd crush, as his government ...

The Seoul crowd crush over Halloween weekend killed 154. Most victims were in their 20s and 30s.

The 24-year-old got his start in South Korea’s entertainment industry as part of a training program for a K-pop management company. Lee Ji-han was set to make his first appearance in a major TV series later this year. “For me, he will always be the love of my life, in this one and the next one.” — Kelly Kasulis Cho “Producing quality and revolutionary stories is what it’s all about,” she wrote on LinkedIn. Rached traveled frequently, posting on Instagram in recent weeks from Bali and Mexico. They were “constantly calling and calling and calling and calling with no answer,” his father said. His girlfriend, Gabriela Pares, who was in the United States watching the scene on a TikTok live stream, grew worried and tried calling and texting. and on his birthday,” Pares wrote in a When she called his sister, who lives about 40 minutes away from Itaewon, his family hadn’t yet realized the extent of the tragedy. He became an Eagle Scout like his brother, Joey, who is older by about a year, and went to college with hopes of working in international business. It was supposed to be a celebratory night for his 24th birthday, spent with two best friends. “And this was his first big adventure.”

SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA — A viral Twitter video showing a group of revellers partying next to emergency vehicles that were responding to a fatal crowd crush in ...

Seeing the disaster unfolding in front of you, was preventing losses to your business the only thing you could think about?” One of the employees relented and the survivor escaped safely. However, the person met with workers who cursed and yelled at them to go back down if they did not have the club’s entry bracelet or stamp. Written accounts circulating on Twitter alleged that Waikiki’s employees forced people who tried to climb into the pub’s premises for safety to go back into the burgeoning crowd. But before he could jump inside the bar, Mr Koh was stopped by a bouncer who told him to go back down. The crowd at the front was desperately asking everyone to move back,” he said. “I was near the slope where the stampede was happening and I couldn't get out. Twenty-two of the fatalities were foreigners including nationals from Australia, China, Iran, Norway and Uzbekistan. However, Mr Koh ended up being separated from his friends during the chaos. A tweet from the Philippines read: “How sick (can) humans be?... They are still blasting loud music knowing the chaos going on outside? Another person said: “People can’t breathe and are dying.

Footage continues to emerge from the Oct. 29 tragedy in the Itaewon district of South Korea where over 150 people were killed in a crowd crush. Desperate ...

At around the 1-minute 42-second mark, a man appeared out of the crowd as he climbed up the side of the building as the crowd below him continued to shuffle past slowly. One man was seen scaling a wall to climb out of the crowd in a bid to make his way to safety. Don't let them get away with it!— Michelle Kim Gardner 김미희 (@mk_grdnr)

Crowd control experts tell ABC News that there are protocols to prevent crowd crush incidents.

"Kids should never be the ones who do crowd control," he said. One of the fundamental rules in crowd control is knowing how much density can be put in a given space, according to G. "You put three or four officers at those sections and make sure they can see the crowd ahead [and] you can prevent these critical densities." If you don’t know where that red line is, you shouldn't be holding that big of a crowd." At the same time, attendees can also be prepared to avoid getting hurt in case of an emergency. At least two Americans were among the 19 foreigners killed during the incident, officials said.

Over the weekend, at least 154 people, many of them women in their twenties, were killed in a Halloween crowd crush in Seoul. The tragedy took place in ...

[victims](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/31/world/asia/seoul-itaewon-crowd-crush-victims.html?name=styln-korea-stampede®ion=TOP_BANNER&block=storyline_menu_recirc&action=click&pgtype=Article&variant=show&is_new=false) were in their 20s with almost twice as many [women](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/29/world/asia/women-victims-korea-crowd-crush.html) reportedly killed than men. South Korean YouTuber [Seon Yeo-jeong](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/29/world/asia/witnesses-chaos-itaewon-seoul.html?name=styln-korea-stampede®ion=TOP_BANNER&block=storyline_menu_recirc&action=click&pgtype=Article&variant=show&is_new=false) shared her experience of the surge on her “We shouted and screamed for help, but the music was so loud in the alley, our shouts were drowned.” [Janelle Story](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/29/world/asia/witnesses-chaos-itaewon-seoul.html?name=styln-korea-stampede®ion=TOP_BANNER&block=storyline_menu_recirc&action=click&pgtype=Article&variant=show&is_new=false), 35, described seeing a “sea of bodies” fleeing the alleyway where the majority of the victims were crushed. [ABC News](https://abcnews.go.com/International/south-korean-police-apologize-deadly-halloween-crowd-crush/story?id=92417644), South Korean police initially claimed they had deployed 200 officers to Itaewon, but later amended that figure to 137 after mounting criticism that they had mishandled a preventable crush. [Witnesses](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/29/world/asia/witnesses-chaos-itaewon-seoul.html?name=styln-korea-stampede®ion=TOP_BANNER&block=storyline_menu_recirc&action=click&pgtype=Article&variant=show&is_new=false) have recalled a night of chaos, confusion, and minimal police presence, telling the Times nightclubs still played music as ambulances and firefighters arrived and that partygoers stepped in to help with crowd control, dragging unconscious bodies out of the alleyway and administering CPR. At least 20 foreigners were also killed, including [Steven Blesi](https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/10/30/seoul-halloween-stampede-itaewon-south-korea/) and Anne Gieske, two 20-year-old Americans studying abroad. [police presence](https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/10/29/world/south-korea-stampede-itaewon#witness-wave) was notably minimal during the festivities. “If police had been there this year,” one witness told the [Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/30/world/asia/south-korea-itaewon-crowd-crush-victims.html?name=styln-korea-stampede®ion=TOP_BANNER&block=storyline_menu_recirc&action=click&pgtype=LegacyCollection&variant=show&is_new=false), “maybe no one would have died.” “It was foreseen that a large number of people would gather … The overflowing crowd created a bottleneck that left many people trapped and struggling to breathe or move with those trying to escape pushing forward and stepping on those who had fallen. Though the government’s first response center and the nearest fire department were less than half a mile from the scene, emergency responders reportedly struggled to break through the crowds. [crowd crush](https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/10/29/world/south-korea-stampede-itaewon) in Seoul, the [New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/30/world/asia/south-korea-itaewon-crowd-crush-victims.html?name=styln-korea-stampede®ion=TOP_BANNER&block=storyline_menu_recirc&action=click&pgtype=LegacyCollection&variant=show&is_new=false) reports.

K-Pop star AleXa held a minute of silence for Itaewon crowd crush victims at the Avalon Hollywood Los Angeles tour stop. Promotions for her November 'Back ...

AleXa and ZB Label are also joining the dozens of artists and labels opting to [hold or cancel promotional plans](https://www.billboard.com/music/pop/kpop-events-new-music-releases-canceled-postponed-seoul-halloween-stampede-1235163341/) and new music in light of the tragedy. [announced](https://twitter.com/AleXa_ZB/status/1586779922965483521) on Sunday that they would temporarily postpone the planned promotional schedule for the singer’s forthcoming Girls Gone Vogue EP. Earlier this month, [Billboard revealed](https://www.billboard.com/music/pop/alexa-uta-new-ep-american-song-contest-exclusive-1235158407/) that the new EP, along with the new single “Back in Vogue,” would be released on Nov. It’s forever going to change the lives of people they knew, friends, family, and loved ones. I kindly ask that we altogether observe a minute of silence here together out of respect for all the victims and all the lives lost in the tragedy.” At her concert Sunday at Los Angeles’ Avalon Hollywood, the final date in AleXa’s First Meet & Live Tour in U.S.

Crowd crushes are wholly preventable, predictable and avoidable, experts say. Here is what we can learn from the Halloween crowd crush in Seoul.

It gives the impression that it was a mindless crowd only caring about themselves, and they were prepared to crush people. “At what point did anyone in this crowd think ‘Let’s become a mob’,” he asks. Compounding the problem is that those entering a crowd are oblivious to the impending danger. “Stampede is not only an incorrect term, it is a loaded word as it apportions blame to the victims for behaving in an irrational, self-destructive, unthinking and uncaring manner,” Galea says. Often those who die in crowd crushes are the ones pushed against a wall. A crowd crush occurs whenever too many people push into a confined area – either on the way in, or trying to get out.

Death toll rises to 156, as authorities admit crowd control measures were inadequate ahead of Halloween disaster in district of Itaewon.

[instructed](https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20221031009400315) the government to come up with a crowd control system for spontaneous events that have no organisers. [blamed](http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20221031000682&np=1&mp=1) for the disaster, including a lack of preventive measures and crowd control due to the absence of an organising body for Halloween. “Everyone, both students and teachers, are extremely sad,” she said, saying that it reminded her of the 2014 It could have also taken measures to make the subway not stop [at Itaewon station].” After paying their respects, some students sat on the floor in the hallway and The majority of those killed were young women. The victim’s mother and sister held hands and comforted each other while listening to chants and the sound of a wooden bell. Earlier, the country’s police chief apologised for an “inadequate” emergency response to the deadly crush. The previous day, students in school uniforms had come to pray for their fallen classmate. Choi Ji-yoon, 22, told the Guardian that most of the victims were her age or younger, so they did not feel like strangers. They became caught up in the crowd surge. Among the dead was a middle school student, who had joined the Halloween festivities with her mother and aunt.

Echoes of a past disaster must inform South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol's response to the deaths of over 150 revelers in a crowd surge in Seoul.

A nightmarish disaster whose victims are predominantly the young. It’s not hard to find echoes between the killing of more than 150 people crushed in a Halloween crowd surge in Seoul on Saturday, and the deaths of more than 300 people, mainly high-school students, in the 2014 sinking of the Sewol ferry. A right-of-center leader whose popularity is sliding.