The tragedy occurred in Itaewon of Seoul, when around 100,000 people -- mostly in their teens and 20s, wearing Halloween costumes -- had poured into its narrow, winding streets for partying, causing ...

Halloween weekend had drawn bigger crowds to Itaewon each year since 2017 ... Emergency services received calls three hours before the stampede warning that the crowds, estimated at around ...

A memorial to the victims was unveiled on Thursday in the cramped alley in Itaewon where the stampede occurred last year. Survivors of the Itaewon disaster and relatives of victims continue to ...

Medical staff transport a victim on a stretcher in Itaewon on Oct. 30, 2022. At least 120 people were killed and some 100 were injured in a stampede in central Seoul when thousands crowded into ...

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One hundred-fifty-six lives were lost in an unimaginable stampede last Saturday in the Itaewon district of Seoul. People from various places and stations in life are gone and most of them were ...

Itaewon was popular for its diversity and nightlife. A week after a disaster killed more than 150 young people there, the neighborhood is a monument of grief. Share full article People paying ...

Itaewon residents share how they are feeling after Halloween's tragic crowd surge JUANA SUMMERS, HOST: South Koreans are mourning the 156 lives lost last weekend in a Halloween party stampede in ...

South Koreans are mourning the 156 lives lost last weekend in a Halloween party stampede in Seoul. NPR's Anthony Kuhn went to the Itaewon neighborhood where that tragedy occurred. There ...