A year after a crowd crush tragedy in Itaewon, Seoul's night-life district remains somber during Halloween as residents remember the victims. The usual festivities have been replaced by mourning and commemorative activities.
Prelude to the Best Sommelier of Canada Contest | SaltWireSEOUL - A year after 159 Halloween revellers were killed in a crowd crush in South Korea, the capital's night-life district of Itaewon was quiet on Saturday, the area's usual festivities replaced by mourning for those died.
"It used to be filled with visitors dressed in costumes and blood makeup by this time. But if you look at the age range of the people walking around, it's mostly just relatively old local residents," Lee said. Gatherings have not been banned in Itaewon over Halloween this year though authorities and police were conducting crowd-control drills featuring an AI-backed network of nearly 1,000 closed-circuit TV cameras, ahead of the first anniversary of the disaster.
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