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Most weekends, the narrow alleys of Itaewon, the neon-lit nightlife district in South Korea’s capital Seoul, are busy with partygoers and tourists. Now it’s the site of one of the country’s worst ...
Hye Minyi can still vividly recall what happened in Itaewon, South Korea, on the night of October 29, 2022. That was when the trendy nightlife district in the heart of Seoul became the site of one ...
SEOUL — Forty-eight hours after ... says the parents "believed South Korea would have taken a lesson and not repeat the same" after their tragedy. In the wake of the accident, the government ...
The neighborhood of Itaewon, a trendy hub for foreigners and foreign cuisine in South Korea's capital ... a 21-year-old from Seoul. "There's always a lot of people in Itaewon, but the peak ...
South Koreans are searching for answers as ... Officials said 82 people were also injured in the incident Saturday night in Seoul’s Itaewon area, which had been packed with crowds ahead of ...
By Choe Sang-Hun Reporting from Seoul From the beginning, with the grief still raw and anguished questions unanswered, the South Korean ... a narrow alleyway in the Itaewon neighborhood, after ...
By Victoria Kim Halloween isn’t a holiday traditionally celebrated in South Korea — but as Seoul has grown more ... have always centered around Itaewon, a neighborhood closely associated ...
Like many relatives of those who died in Itaewon, Song hopes the one-year ... more senior authorities from punishment. In February, South Korea's opposition-dominated National Assembly impeached ...
On Sunday morning, South Korea’s president Yoon Suk-yeol visited ... Items littered the scene of Saturday’s deadly crowd crush in Seoul’s Itaewon district. Here’s some of what revelers ...
SEOUL, South Korea — A mass of mostly young people among ... after the crush in the capital’s nightlife district of Itaewon on Saturday night. Those killed or hurt were mostly teens and ...