'The memories keep coming back, so now I’m having a panic attack when I hear any siren sounds.'
Thanks in part to a flood of disturbing images in the first hours of the disaster, the emotional and mental health effects of the disaster could touch all corners of society, said Ulsan University Hospital professor of psychiatry Jun Jin-yong.
Tens of thousands of revellers, many of them young, had crowded into narrow streets and alleyways of Itaewon for the first virtually unrestricted Halloween festivities in three years. An uncontrolled surge of people into one narrow alleyway turned into a deadly crush. “What makes it harder for most people is that it was nobody’s fault that they happened to be there, and when you keep asking why were they there in the first place… that’s a recipe for social conflict,” Jun said.Halloween stampede in Seoul leaves at least 149 dead
“When you see reactions to disasters, there are inevitable reactions trying to find some scapegoats and blaming them,” Jun said. “For example, when we had COVID-19 cases the first time in South Korea, there were a lot of blaming reactions like ‘why did you go there? Why did you spread it to others.'”Kim Bum-jin, 18, said recurring memories of the disaster have made him unable to sleep or eat. “The memories keep coming back, so now I’m having a panic attack when I hear any siren sounds.
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