Janelle Story, 35, an American English teacher who was out with two friends in Itaewon, saw “this sea of bodies come rushing toward us really fast” at 10:34 p.m. around a corner from the alleyway.

Videos filmed between 10:17 and 10:21 p.m. show crowds converging from both ends of a narrow alley in Seoul's Itaewon district, leading to a crowd crush. (Video: @limesarah1 via TikTok and ...

On Oct. 14, Condolence messages are attached to the wall of a narrow alley of Itaewon, where the deadly Halloween crush claimed 159 lives last year, in Seoul. (Lee Jaeeun/The Korea Herald) ...

Almost 160 young people died in this Itaewon alleyway on 29 October 2022 Park Jin-sung lives with both. He was visiting Seoul with his mother and younger sister.

Park said Itaewon always had large Halloween crowds, even during raging COVID-19 infections last year. He said shop owners like him usually avoid the narrow alley beside Hamilton Hotel during ...

One picture showed Ms. Kim smiling in the same alleyway where the crowd crush would occur years later. “That was when I realized that I did nothing wrong,” she said, “and that there was ...

President Lee Jae-myung visited Itaewon Memorial Alley to pay respects to the victims of the Oct. 29 crowd crush disaster, advocating for improved public safety measures following the tragedy that ...

E. Tammy Kim writes about the crowd crush that killed a hundred and fifty-six revellers on Halloween weekend in Seoul’s Itaewon neighborhood, and what the deaths may mean for South Korean ...

Juliana Velandia Santaella was trapped in an Itaewon alley, with only her head above piles of people. She felt like her lungs were being flattened. Accessibility statement Skip to main content.

SEOUL – On a Saturday night in October, dozens of people were lined up outside the Waikiki Beach Pub in the narrow alley behind the Hamilton Hotel, in Itaewon, Seoul. “We should have arrived ...

One year on from the horrific crowd crush that killed nearly 160 young people, Lee Ju-hyun returned to the alleyway where she almost died. She visits regularly, determined to keep her memories of ...