SANTOSTILO SOUTH KOREA’S LEE ORDERS NEW INVESTIGATION TEAM TO LOOK INTO DEADLY 2022 CRUSH
Context: The Itaewon Crowd Crush Tragedy On October 29, 2022, during Halloween celebrations in Seoul’s Itaewon district, more than 150,000 people flooded narrow alleys. Around 10:20 pm, a crowd surge in a cramped, sloped passage near Hamilton Hotel created a deadly bottleneck—resulting in the loss of approximately 159 lives and injuring nearly 200 people. Most were … Read more