The tragedy occurred on Oct. 29, 2022, amid Halloween celebrations, when crowds surged in a narrow alleyway, resulting in 159 ...

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 ...

The Interior Ministry said Monday it has begun accepting applications for "livelihood support" allowances for the victims and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Itaewon ... Korea experienced one of its worst peacetime disasters in 2014 when a ferry carrying 325 students from Danwon High School in Ansan - an industrial town about an hour south of Seoul ...