My sister was in Seoul at that time and the anxiety I experienced when she wasn’t answering my calls and messages during the incident was unbearable. Mom and I flew to visit her the next day to see her alive and well but unfortunately, her friend’s friend was one of the victims 😢
@@izsan9070same. My eyes are just wide and i keep screaming in my head "just go watch it at home! I can even see you from here. Theres no point going there unless you just want to be part of other peoples pictures and get autographs and unnecessary stuff
the way it was described is like a nightmare, sorta how the travis scott concert went. the musics so loud and everyone around themselves trying to breath, and some people aren’t even aware of what’s going on and still just laughing and enjoying there time while people are dying around them. it’s so eerie i feel so bad for them
I didn't want to see but I couldn't stop looking. RIP my dearly loved and missed friend. As well as everyone else that died that day. My heart also goes out to all the family and friends of the victims and survivors of such a senseless tragedy.
@@Serenitysoar Thank you so much. The pain is as fresh today as it was then. Maybe it's because I'm still in touch with her amazing family. They say time heals and I know that to be true. We're all just living until that starts to happen.
i couldn't get thru this without crying. i try not to think about it now, because i suffered trauma for a few weeks after the incident. may these poor souls rest in peace
im korean american and my interactions with koreans from korea have not been good. They are scheming, lying, manipulative and thieving. Very selfish people looking to make an extra dollar and screw over other people in the process. I'm glad this happened since it exposed just how senseless and inconsiderate korean people are. Selfish people.
Me too… I was really depressed for a few weeks. I thought about this when I went to bed, and it’s the first thing I thought about when I woke up. This video is very important for showing just how strong the crowd was tho.
@@TheTinKunt lmao. I found this to be too funny.I'm korean american and I think koreans from korea are so manipulative and scheming so this is very well deserved. Good riddance and if anything this demonstrates what a selfish and inconsiderate kind of people koreans are. I'm not sad but happy this happened since its justified. Good stuff korea - keep it coming.
I got an anxiety attack just watching this. I have friends in Korea and was so frightened that they were part of this for days and weeks I didn’t hear anything. Now I know that they are all safe but my heart breaks for the families and friends that will never see their loved ones again. May they RIP and may the Korean government take action so this doesn’t happen again. In the US this happened at a concert so may all the countries come together and help each other so this doesn’t happen again. 😢😢😢😢😢
I still can't understand how all countries coming together can stop this kind of tragedies where authorities of that country are at fault....if you are asking for a separate unit for such concerts/parties where a large crowd will gather then it's the most fantasized shit i have ever heard....if they knew that over 100,000 people will gather around didn't they thought of the worst case scenario and how they will control the crowd? No escape plans?
This is so horrific. There are no guns, no knives, just a crowd. I just don't have the words... Almost everyone in this video in that alley died. For no better reason than taking a right or left turn within a few moments of the crush. Rest in peace. Gone much too soon.
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It's not an accident... It is a human sacrifice. It's Halloween day isn't it? I heard some people in the front "engineered" that way before the crowd surge and they escaped
After this happened, I watched lots of videos with experts on what to do incase you’re ever in a similar situation. According to them, as soon as a moving crowd starts to look more moving water than individuals, AVOID AVOID AVOID that area.
Played the video at 0.25x speed. I could make out and see how some of the faces belonging to shorter people slowly sank down and disappeared in the crowd. At 2:47 you can roughly make out that a woman was waving one of her hands frantically, then seconds later she disappeared and you can no longer spot the white mask she may have worn. Poor souls, may they rest in peace.
I think i could make out which person you were talking about - lower part of screen closer to camera, a little left of middle part of street. Is it just me or did it really look like that the person behind her PUSHED her from behind right before she fell? Because it looks like there's someone behind her moving with motion as if literally intentionally pushing her from behind, as if wanting to make people fall down.. Is it just my mind interpreting things wrong? Or does anyone else see this and has a feeling there was a sicko most likely wanting to make her fall down.
@Karlis Liepa 🇺🇦 You have to understand there's no "want" in this situation. When you're in a crowd that dense, it behaves as a liquid, and you lose control as the waves come and go. If someone moves an inch and there's a slight opening, people will be pushed and be forced to occupy the free space simply because of the weight behind them. Literally tons.
@@AnnyJotto I mean when being still far away enough to change direction and to walk away. Where movement around is still free enough yet people want to go and see whats going on down the street where everyone is walking. There was a cop who tried to tell people to back away, but people ignored him and continued to walk in direction of tragedy. Society needs to be educated about crowd culture dangers.
@@JustSomeGuyLV People definitely would be pushing whether from intentionally evilness or lack of protocol. There were 100,000 people, the chances of people acting without thinking it through would be much common than you think.
Even at the mall, if the crowds getting a little to much that u need to stop walking or bumping to people like this, that’s the sign to get out of there.
yep, it'd be careless trying to push through or even stay on the spot when a potentially crammed in situation is right before your eyes the wisest thing to do is wait patiently at a safe distant or quickly take another way though it's further.
You have to grasp that number. 160. In an alley. You wouldn't even believe 160 would fit in that alley alone when you see it empty. In mere minutes they died of soffucation. People around them with purple faces, mouths still open from screaming, now silent. And all preventable and expected by government and police. I have never heard of something that tragic before. In Germany we had a crowd crush in which 21 people died. Our eyes were opened that day and we will never forget. We have very strict regulations... But 160. Young people stacked upon each other. It is just so terrific. I am currently trying to wrap my head around it. Hoping that I will understand and move on. But I just can't understand. It is just too much and nonsensical.
Human Stacks of 13 feet high. From one very detailed report on this tragedy. Form what I can remember, that’s like 1,900 pounds on your chest(quoting a video I saw posted 2 months ago). Horrible way to go.
people who blame this on drunk people instead of lack of management and crowd control are utterly disgusting. People had made calls to the police from 6pm and had warned them about the crowd surge. They did NOTHING. Absolutely Nothing
Yes, it’s absolutely crowd control but do you not notice all the pushing which caused people to be buried. I’m not saying they were drunk but they were impatient and pushed that’s clearly a factor
I don’t even understand why people continued going into this alleyway seeing the huge crowd. I wouldn’t have even attempted even trying to see if I could squeeze in.
Imagine you're in the edge of a waterfall,you don't want to fall but the water is pulling you. It's like that basically,even if some people don't want to go there, the crowd pushes them.
Many Survivors said- 1. They didnt know when they arrived what was happening bcs they were in the far end when they came, not in the centre ,, and by the time they understood that they have to turn back , it was already late cause new set of people, just like them arrived behind them to enter. This is what happened. Not just- they went on going into the crowd.. No. By the time they arrived, grasped the situation, and decided to turn back .. within those minutes.. new groups of people, just like them already arrived behind them and they kepton arriving and made it difficult (almost impossible .. bcs many people were Just coming at that party timings) to turn back. 2. At 1st they were trying to enter/exit. But after some time it was like , even if they're not entering/exiting, they got pulled into the crowd, bcs it was a big crowd and somewhat out of the alley on both ends,, so they got pulled into, even if they're not trying to go into the alley. So understand that : even if they knew --some of them couldn't at all go back even at the entrance of the alley n got struck there n got pulled in AND -- others: despite not intending to go into the alley got pulled in and struck there. Understand that It's an unexpected CROWD SURGE - it's much more bigger than what u think " I wouldn't go in if it was me"/"I don't understand these ppl who went in". No. Nobody would've thought gng to a party turns into a disaster, a literal disaster.And also consider the amount of confusion at that time in the minds of those ppl.
Many people were saying they were floating in the air, their feet not even touching the ground. Then the fallen started to cause people being stuck in place, the force was so strong, you try to put out and lose your shoes. It was bumper to bumper movement until that alleyway.
This video is SO IMPORTANT. let me say this again, THIS VIDEO IS SO IMPORTANT!!! when the people stop moving forward and yet the crowd force pushing on them is so relentless, it was like watching those tsunami videos from japan. The power of the crowd, the death kneel, this should be required viewing for everyone to understand crowds and to be aware of ones surrounding. Goddam this is a nightmare
True, the crown push was severe and a huge reason people actually got crushed. Imagine if people just waited for their turn without pushing. It’s a nightmare made by so many different reasons
My thoughts are with all of the families and friends of the people who died. I'm watching because it's honestly new to me that this could kill so many people and just trying to understand it. I've spent time slowly moving in packed crowds and making my way to the front of concerts at festivals without any concern so now I know. Luckily they have been carefully controlled crowds that I've been in, but I think it's still good to know about this.
I honestly don't understand. I don't understand why the police force didn't send out officers to handle the situation properly when they were alerted multiple times before the incident happened. I don't understand how they didn't get to deal with the crowding earlier. I don't understand how they seemed to not take the situation seriously enough to take immediate action. But most of all, I don't understand how people could look at a very crowded space where people are touching shoulder to shoulder and chest to chest just to get from one place to another, and still get into that crowd knowing something dangerous could happen. I don't understand how there's a damn large number of people who could see the dangers of such an overcrowded alley from the streets, and yet join in with the crowd just to get to the other side. I don't understand how a large number of people could see the dangers of the tightness of the alley and the walls being too narrow, and people obviously overcrowding an area, and yet still just think about getting to the other side. I don't know how it couldn't have been obvious how dangerous it was to go through those streets and tight spaces and to avoid that kind of area when you've seen how crowded it was. Obviously, in the footage shown here, it was on the extreme side of that night already, but I'm talking about minutes and maybe even hours before this incident happened. Other than just some people calling the police for help in crowd guiding to avoid any crowd-related tragedy, how weren't enough people able to recognize how dangerous it was to squeeze yourself through a tight space and pack yourself through a slow-moving crowd just to get to the other street. If one could argue that such crowds were a bit common and especially in Korea's subways, it's obviously different in a train when people are packed. Even without the downslope of the alley, the difference between people packed in a train and in a moving crowd, is that in a moving crowd, anyone can trip, anyone can fall, anyone can get hurt a lot more easily than when a crowd remains dormant. I just really don't understand how enough people found it okay to go through a crowd packed with people with only the option of a tight squeeze just to get to the other side of the alley. I can't believe it. Why didn't enough people stay away from such a thick, tight crowd in Itaewon when upon arriving, the place was obviously filled and just PACKED with people. How was this incident not foreseen by many. If people just gave way, and had some sense and responsibility for their life and for order, this wouldn't have happened. But I can't help but really blame the authorities. If they didn't have any good excuse as to why the complaints and warnings weren't taken seriously and only until much later did effective police arrive, then what the hell were on their minds. They could've prevented this incident from happening. They could've guided the people and the crowd, just as that one woman did. They could've done a lot.
There are a lot of videos here and discussions on reddit about how the crowd crush happens. The fact is that there is always free space behind the crowd. And when you approach it seems to you that everything is fine and you dont see what is in the distance. And the viewing radius of a person is the heads of people in few meters in front of him. A person does not even realize how bad things are ahead. When he realizes the danger of the situation, its already too late, since new people have already come up from behind, the person is surrounded on all sides by people and he literally has nowhere to go. In the video from a man who got into this situation, you can see how abruptly the crowd builds up. Video: "2/7 360° Video - Korea Halloween 2022 Crowd Surge Disaster" It was around 8-9 pm. When a person gets into such a situation, he has nothing left to do but move with the crowd. The crowd turns into one and takes the form of a wave that carries you by inertia But the people who were standing at the bottom of the descent saw everything perfectly and still tried to pass, they were guilty And in Korea, in Seoul, people are used to large crowds of people. So their sense of crowd danger is pretty low. if you want to know more about the crush of the crowd, there is a good video: "Crowd Crush and Collapse, Part 1: What They Are and How They Happen Sahwin" There is also part 2 on this channel The top leadership of the police and the Ministry of the Interior and Safety are 100% to blame for this. They knew that on that day there would be a huge crowd of people, they themselves announced this. But they did nothing to prevent the situation. In addition, their new presidency handed over huge control over the police and security services to the top leadership and the Ministry of the Interior and Safety. He also moved the presidential office and broke with long tradition, which required more protection for him. And on Halloween itself, most of the police were busy with protests and even dressed up in civilian clothes to catch drug dealers. And they did not react to the situation in any way. They demanded that top management be held accountable, rather than shifting responsibility to ordinary employees. But they still found scapegoats in the form of ordinary policemen, firemen and even workers of the metro station. I feel very sorry for these poor families and people who had to leave so terribly. And it also doesn’t fit in my head how negligent the security forces were that day and how this could have been allowed to happen. Rest their souls 😞
@@sukjuni_ Thanks for the very clear explanation. It teaches us not to go to crowded places even when seemingly from outside it looks fine. I don't understand what you meant by people standing at the bottom of the descent saw everything and still tried to pass. Can you elaborate?
@@EVL-xj5vc I'm very happy if my answer was helpful to you. After I saw how dangerous it could be, I searched a lot. I meant the people who stood at the bottom of the alley. The people split into two flows, one went down, others went up. Therefore, people from the bottom of the alley (who walked into the alley from the main street) saw perfectly what was happening above. But they still tried to get to the top. Hope u understand🙂 Sorry, english isnt my native language
Oh and sorry, I mistyped the title of the video. The video where the person started getting stuck in the crowd is "2/7 360° Video - Korea Halloween 2022 Crowd Surge Disaster". The end of this video shows well how people have nowhere to go. There are many parts of this video on his channel
@@EVL-xj5vc The best advice that experts give is that if there are more than 8 people around you per square meter and your body begins to lose all freedom of movement, you need to leave immediately. But in any case, society usually does not teach this, does not teach about the danger of a crush of the crowd. So, it is necessary that such a crowd was always controlled. Especially when its known how big it will be
Hopefully, a lesson was learned from this. Otherwise, the past will be repeated in the future. It's just sad that incidents like this have to occur before proper safety procedures are put in place. This celebration is known to have really large crowds, year after year, yet nothing was done to ensure safety. Some years were probably near misses for a trajedy like this, but it looks like those near misses caught up. Don't rely on others to keep you safe. You need to be proactive about it. Hopefully, this is a better year. Peace.
I hope all of those shoving from the back never forget this moment. Innocent lives lost because people can't think of others. This isn't fair. To those lives lost and their families friends and fans. It kills me after seeing astroworld and now this. May the beautiful lives lost rest in peace 😭💜🙏
@@ace1x177 They didn’t bring it upon themselves. They just wanted to get to where they were trying to go. Nobody had any idea what was actually happening until it was too late.
I experienced a strong crush once in the 1990's at an outdoor rock music festival in Ontario, Canada. When the crush occurs, you feel helpless. I remember the lead singer of the Australian band Midnight Oil stopped playing their set, imploring those from the back of the crowd to stop pushing forward, and calling for more security to help people at the front. Itaewon must have a been a nightmare.
Condolences to those who have unfortunately lost their loved ones 🕯️such a traumatic incident that they've have gone through. I cannot bear to see them screaming, crying, panicking for help 💔 May they rest and peace, and fly high 🕊️ I hope this won't happen ever again to avoid more tragedies in the future
People get dangerously illogical when joining overcrowded movement. This video needs to be played on TV every year before every major event to remind people the basic rule of gathering rule - that's the only 100% way how to keep people constantly aware of it to avoid any future tragedy like that.
something weird is happening in sk so many tragedies so many suicide so many missing people and cults and lowest birth rate in the world their population is decreasing insanely day y day
Where are the 50 or so policemen and women who should have limited foot traffic? Where are the many metal fence like barriers that should have guided flow of foot traffic? Why wasn't the transit station exit closed?? where were the co=ordinators of foot traffic who should have been stationed on high platforms about two and a half times the crowd 's height observing and directing closures of streets and transit exits???? Where are and I mean where are the directors of foot traffic/ the bright flashing lights, the public address systems??? This is really mass Negligent Homicide. The mayor should have hired crowd experts from other nations if his police force was too small. Crowd direction would have been an excellent job for about 200 trained military conscripts who could have used walky-talkies to check in on a minute to minute basis. Where are the ladders to lead up higher? I see this as an Avoidable tragedy if someone in the city government had CARED!!! Also someone in the President's office could have been checking with the Mayor of Seoul to see the Plans for foot traffic and the alternative routes for attendees in excess of specific numbers. There should have been emergency contingency plans too. In New Orleans of the US where hundreds of thousands of visitors would crowd like this there are one way foot traffic streets and wide bands of no-car traffic, and police by the hundreds out. This was governmental failure of the worst sort!!!!!! Impeach all the related officials and train and employ crowd foot traffic officers and plans for all, all large gatherings not just when thr RICH and Powerfu;l, or POLITICAL high 'mucky-mucks' want personal safety. Again I say impeach twenty or thirty middle managers and hire folks from other countries that know how to do this sort of thing.
I was caught in a stream of people like this one time in Mardi Gras in New Orleans. It was terrifying and I'll never get caught in a gaggle like that again. There are doors along that alleyway into bars and restaurants. Why didn't people enter those doors to alleviate the pressure?
Apparently, the pressure of the crowd was too strong to move an inch. Multiple survivors say they were literally in the air being held up by the crowd and lost their shoes. Several unlucky victims had both arms broken from the force 😢
I was in the event with my mother and my grandma judging by the videos I've seen if my grandma didn't get distracted by something we could've be in the crush directly
I was shocked by this news, Im half the world away. Its Halloween, an ancient Irish festival. Exported to the USA with Irish immigration I was suprised Korea would even have heard of it. Such sadness for what is supposed to be a fun night. Likewise in Dublin we had a crowd tragedy on Valentines Day 50 young people died as a result. My condolences to all the families of the victims and to the citizens of Seoul, its a heartbreaking 💔 tragedy.
Could just imagine that if you survived it that you might have stopped one of the people who have died Tragically honestly I feel so sorry and I hope this never happens ever again in the lifetime
Rest in peace to the victim. Luckily is blurred, First time I watch the news about what happened I can't sleep for a few days because some of the videos are not blurred I watch it. So, I saw their faces begging for help. I got anxious after that, and even if not there I felt their pain.
They're pushed from people coming out from the train stations which is also completely full. Should the people at the train station stand on the train tracks?
@@kaneidareyue7715 That's pushing from behind no? You reach the train station that is jam pack and you still push yourself into the station? That's not even impatience.... that is stupid.
@@marcus5368 Out of the station. You walking with the crowd. Ain't pushing yet from the looks of the cctv cameras. Its the street perpendicular to the alleyway where contact with others becomes closer and tighter.
Does anyone know why all those people gathered in that alley in the first place??? It seems the festivities were held on the main streets? Why did all those people go to that alley at the same time?
Idky, but my guess is that bc that main street was so busy, maybe they thought it'd be easier to get out of the crowd thru the alley street. If you check the map, that alley is located directly midway thru that main street (right next to a hotel) in the video and leads to another large street. From the direction of the natural crowd flow the cctvs is showing on the main street, there are essentially 2 much smaller alleyways the crowd flowing could've naturally gone thru first (and probably did) before flowing into the alley of the incident. That alley and the closest alleyway prior to it is located 5 buildings apart from each other on the same side of the street. But passing it, the next closest (and last) alley before the end of the main street is located a hotel and a building over, also on the same side of the street (and they take up more space than even the 5 buildings prior). On the other side of the main street, there are no alleyways (it's a full street wall of buildings/properties), so the crowd flow going along that side of the main street would actually have ppl needing to walk the full street to get out, unless they move against the natural crowd flow to get to an alleyway.
@@em5522 thank you for the explanation. It still boggles my mind how people would just pile on top of each other when they see there's no place to move. :(
@@EvaMariposa oh yeah, I'm surprised by some videos showing ppl trying to enter that crowd in the main street from the outside when it was clearly so full. But as for that particular place, at the time, the crowd was moving pretty much at the same pace in the alley and the main street (while it was congested, the crowd was still moving), so I can see why ppl would've thought they could get out through there. And also at that time, once a person entered the alley, it was basically impossible to turn around even if sm1 changed their mind abt going down there. It makes me wonder how the end of the alley looked like for traffic to move that slow.
Who'd spread rumors of a celebrity in a bar, causing a stampede? Sounds malicious. Lets hope no one went to the devil causing this horror. I hope it wasn't anyone from Corrupt natwest! 999?
You think that why this happened? The celebrity thing was just a rumor and found out to be not true. It’s the location of the alley that made so many people take the alley and the pushing and lack of crowd control
Look how stupid people can be when they don't pay attention and ignore things around them, even if that thing is something that is unnecessarily danger.
I was in hospital at the time this happened and since my mental health was so bad I as well. I found out a whole month later. 😢 I have a Korean friend who lives in my country since childhood, but he went to college that year. He was planning on going to Itaewon for Halloween and he told me how excited he was about it. He was texting me when I was in the hospital not telling me what had happened to protect me. Then when I found out about the accident I asked him. He told me he wanted to go but he's grandmother that lives in Korea (that's where he was staying) wasn't feeling so well that day so he didn't want to leave her and his aunt alone, so he stayed home that night. I can't imagine how devastating it is for the families of the ones that died...
Crazy to even imagine this could happen to anyone ...regardless of size and shape .....if they were children the death toll would be sky high ..... years ago in some parts in India same were happened i think quite few times .....many have died ...Women and children of all age were too in it ...I didn't blived it first but now I do .. RIP Poor souls
Me and my 3 kids were in a crowed place like this in USA. It was to see christmas lights and I started seeing how bad it got and decided to get out with my kids before a tragedy and we open the fence and left. One of the staff they didnt want o let us out even thought he saw it got very bad. Until me and one woman started to tell him more angry to let us go and left. It was very scary
Soooo... why do we gather in large numbers for anything anywhere anytime? I'm not talking about an alleyway in a city, I'm talking about the city. Is that what one wants their one life experience to have been? That's the tragedy, the ones who die in the city AND the ones who live in the city.
There was a downhill grade. People kept pushing from the back then people at the front end fell down like dominoes and it formed a wall of bodies. There were people trying to pull them out.
This accident is caused due to "pali pali" culture ! nothing else, people there have no sense of their surrondings and they urge you to move forward no matter what the consequences are.. I lived in korea enough to know Sometimes, we underestimate culture as being part of the problem, but in reality indeed it is
Seems lile they knew what they were getting into, still sucks they lost so many people but didn't they think about it before they all crowded into that small ass area? Tragic but definitely could have been avoided
Of course there needed to have heavy police presence but I also think that Koreans as a society are less patient with their time and especially younger people who have been partying. Not fully knowing the situation I think that pushing helped make the situation worse.
it's incredible how we are so "civilised" but we can't keep still in a situation like this. we panic, we rush, we shove, we push, we re so animalic, so brutal, so uncivilised, so primal. this species still has a long way to go. imagine if they all just sit still, calm, relax. nobody move and everyone would just evacuate,
There’s a million cameras in cities, I understand you can’t monitor them all. Still, for anybody who did watched this scenario unfold. Well, I can imagine severe PTSD
These crushes are the result of selfish people of the attendees pushing and shoving each other out of fun without knowing the consequences happening at the front. How can they blame the govt when these attendeees are the actual culprit.
It’s sad that no authority or media have called out what caused it. In Korea, pushing in a crowd is normal. If Koreans didn’t push in crowded places, this wouldn’t happen.
Absolutely horrific! My heart goes out to the poor lost souls whose lives were taken way too soo, & their families 🙏❤️🙏 I know there were various factors that led to this catastrophe, but the only thing I don't understand is how ANYONE can be comfortable being in such crowded places to begin with 😰
At 2:25 i can See That people on the right side are staying at the same Place and looking at the crowd, why didnt they move? Thats how the alley gets smaller and smaller. Cant they see that they are blocking the alley?
but this question may be so far fetched but was the store owners who were open along that alley way was helping at least some of the people out like only letting a few people in and shutting the doors so other people wasnt able to come in, like basically saving a few people from getting crushed or did the owners shut there doors completely and just said these youngins will figure it out eventually??? that's the ultimate question i always wanted to ask after watching a few of these videos
Idk but every few years, this seems to happen to the young people of sk mainly due to the adult/authorities negligience. It's like a curse or something. RIP to these souls and their bereaved families.
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My sister was in Seoul at that time and the anxiety I experienced when she wasn’t answering my calls and messages during the incident was unbearable. Mom and I flew to visit her the next day to see her alive and well but unfortunately, her friend’s friend was one of the victims 😢
Friend’s friend? Don’t act like you care pfffttt
lol do u need mental help@@mandymoore7218
@@mandymoore7218ok dude, still it's a life your talking about. Please be respectful
@@mandymoore7218 bro don’t talk like that
@@mandymoore7218how about you in a itaewon like that situation that your in huh
I don’t go to large crowds because I easily can’t breathe.. so watching how cramp the crowd were is giving me anxiety 😭
me too... i rly cant breathe when iam seeing this... that is my worst nightmare
Just from watching this video makes me feel claustrophobic.
@@izsan9070same. My eyes are just wide and i keep screaming in my head "just go watch it at home! I can even see you from here. Theres no point going there unless you just want to be part of other peoples pictures and get autographs and unnecessary stuff
the way it was described is like a nightmare, sorta how the travis scott concert went. the musics so loud and everyone around themselves trying to breath, and some people aren’t even aware of what’s going on and still just laughing and enjoying there time while people are dying around them. it’s so eerie i feel so bad for them
I didn't want to see but I couldn't stop looking. RIP my dearly loved and missed friend. As well as everyone else that died that day. My heart also goes out to all the family and friends of the victims and survivors of such a senseless tragedy.
I’m so sorry for your loss
@@Serenitysoar Thank you so much. The pain is as fresh today as it was then. Maybe it's because I'm still in touch with her amazing family. They say time heals and I know that to be true. We're all just living until that starts to happen.
Same I’m so sorry for your loss. Please look after yourself and try to keep your mind cared for. ❤
@@Mia15239 Thank you as well.
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That's SO heartbreaking! They had nowhere to go. 😢 You hear about it and read about it, but actually SEEING it... speechless.
i couldn't get thru this without crying. i try not to think about it now, because i suffered trauma for a few weeks after the incident. may these poor souls rest in peace
im korean american and my interactions with koreans from korea have not been good. They are scheming, lying, manipulative and thieving. Very selfish people looking to make an extra dollar and screw over other people in the process. I'm glad this happened since it exposed just how senseless and inconsiderate korean people are. Selfish people.
Were you there?
If I see a crowd like these, I'd rather go home quickly. Unless, I have bought a ticket.
Me too… I was really depressed for a few weeks. I thought about this when I went to bed, and it’s the first thing I thought about when I woke up. This video is very important for showing just how strong the crowd was tho.
@@TheTinKunt lmao. I found this to be too funny.I'm korean american and I think koreans from korea are so manipulative and scheming so this is very well deserved. Good riddance and if anything this demonstrates what a selfish and inconsiderate kind of people koreans are. I'm not sad but happy this happened since its justified. Good stuff korea - keep it coming.
Shocking footage seeing all those people crammed together in such tiny space, poor souls, God rest them. never be forgotten
South Korea still has very fucked up transportation issues, and very discriminatory to disabled people. :/
#AstralRealms 💀👻
im korean american and given how self-centered koreans are this doesnt surprise me. well deserved for all these people.
I see them walking but I don't see anyone injured?
@@sootuckchoong7077at the back people were falling and your lungs are likely collapsing
I got an anxiety attack just watching this. I have friends in Korea and was so frightened that they were part of this for days and weeks I didn’t hear anything. Now I know that they are all safe but my heart breaks for the families and friends that will never see their loved ones again. May they RIP and may the Korean government take action so this doesn’t happen again. In the US this happened at a concert so may all the countries come together and help each other so this doesn’t happen again. 😢😢😢😢😢
Yes it is really horrible and just terrible. I’m sorry I hope you’re ok
I still can't understand how all countries coming together can stop this kind of tragedies where authorities of that country are at fault....if you are asking for a separate unit for such concerts/parties where a large crowd will gather then it's the most fantasized shit i have ever heard....if they knew that over 100,000 people will gather around didn't they thought of the worst case scenario and how they will control the crowd? No escape plans?
This is so horrific. There are no guns, no knives, just a crowd. I just don't have the words... Almost everyone in this video in that alley died. For no better reason than taking a right or left turn within a few moments of the crush. Rest in peace. Gone much too soon.
Even fit people who go to gym all the time couldn't help themselves out of the force
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It's not an accident... It is a human sacrifice. It's Halloween day isn't it? I heard some people in the front "engineered" that way before the crowd surge and they escaped
@thisnthat7760 let me guess you also believed it was all planned?
@@thisnthat7760it was on oct 29th. And if you do think it was planned, then who was it planned by?
After this happened, I watched lots of videos with experts on what to do incase you’re ever in a similar situation. According to them, as soon as a moving crowd starts to look more moving water than individuals, AVOID AVOID AVOID that area.
Thank you! I will look for videos like the one you describe
I went to Seoul in March. Walked down that street. It was unfathomable that that many people had been squeezed together in such a small space… rip 🙏🏻
Was there really only one road?
the way that they just keep pushing....oh my god 😭
Played the video at 0.25x speed. I could make out and see how some of the faces belonging to shorter people slowly sank down and disappeared in the crowd. At 2:47 you can roughly make out that a woman was waving one of her hands frantically, then seconds later she disappeared and you can no longer spot the white mask she may have worn. Poor souls, may they rest in peace.
I think i could make out which person you were talking about - lower part of screen closer to camera, a little left of middle part of street. Is it just me or did it really look like that the person behind her PUSHED her from behind right before she fell? Because it looks like there's someone behind her moving with motion as if literally intentionally pushing her from behind, as if wanting to make people fall down..
Is it just my mind interpreting things wrong? Or does anyone else see this and has a feeling there was a sicko most likely wanting to make her fall down.
@Karlis Liepa 🇺🇦 You have to understand there's no "want" in this situation. When you're in a crowd that dense, it behaves as a liquid, and you lose control as the waves come and go.
If someone moves an inch and there's a slight opening, people will be pushed and be forced to occupy the free space simply because of the weight behind them. Literally tons.
@@AnnyJotto I mean when being still far away enough to change direction and to walk away. Where movement around is still free enough yet people want to go and see whats going on down the street where everyone is walking. There was a cop who tried to tell people to back away, but people ignored him and continued to walk in direction of tragedy. Society needs to be educated about crowd culture dangers.
@@JustSomeGuyLV People definitely would be pushing whether from intentionally evilness or lack of protocol. There were 100,000 people, the chances of people acting without thinking it through would be much common than you think.
Even at the mall, if the crowds getting a little to much that u need to stop walking or bumping to people like this, that’s the sign to get out of there.
yep, it'd be careless trying to push through or even stay on the spot when a potentially crammed in situation is right before your eyes
the wisest thing to do is wait patiently at a safe distant or quickly take another way though it's further.
You have to grasp that number. 160. In an alley. You wouldn't even believe 160 would fit in that alley alone when you see it empty.
In mere minutes they died of soffucation. People around them with purple faces, mouths still open from screaming, now silent. And all preventable and expected by government and police.
I have never heard of something that tragic before. In Germany we had a crowd crush in which 21 people died. Our eyes were opened that day and we will never forget. We have very strict regulations...
But 160. Young people stacked upon each other. It is just so terrific.
I am currently trying to wrap my head around it. Hoping that I will understand and move on. But I just can't understand. It is just too much and nonsensical.
Was that the Love Parade crush in 2010?
Why are you stuck on the 160 number? There were tons more than 160 in that alley especially because 150 plus died.
Human Stacks of 13 feet high. From one very detailed report on this tragedy. Form what I can remember, that’s like 1,900 pounds on your chest(quoting a video I saw posted 2 months ago).
Horrible way to go.
people who blame this on drunk people instead of lack of management and crowd control are utterly disgusting. People had made calls to the police from 6pm and had warned them about the crowd surge. They did NOTHING. Absolutely Nothing
Yes, it’s absolutely crowd control but do you not notice all the pushing which caused people to be buried. I’m not saying they were drunk but they were impatient and pushed that’s clearly a factor
The way the crowd is moving is so terrifying and scary
I don’t even understand why people continued going into this alleyway seeing the huge crowd. I wouldn’t have even attempted even trying to see if I could squeeze in.
Imagine you're in the edge of a waterfall,you don't want to fall but the water is pulling you. It's like that basically,even if some people don't want to go there, the crowd pushes them.
Many Survivors said-
1. They didnt know when they arrived what was happening bcs they were in the far end when they came, not in the centre ,, and by the time they understood that they have to turn back , it was already late cause new set of people, just like them arrived behind them to enter.
This is what happened. Not just- they went on going into the crowd.. No. By the time they arrived, grasped the situation, and decided to turn back .. within those minutes.. new groups of people, just like them already arrived behind them and they kepton arriving and made it difficult (almost impossible .. bcs many people were Just coming at that party timings) to turn back.
2. At 1st they were trying to enter/exit. But after some time it was like , even if they're not entering/exiting, they got pulled into the crowd, bcs it was a big crowd and somewhat out of the alley on both ends,, so they got pulled into, even if they're not trying to go into the alley.
So understand that : even if they knew --some of them couldn't at all go back even at the entrance of the alley n got struck there n got pulled in AND --
others: despite not intending to go into the alley got pulled in and struck there.
Understand that It's an unexpected CROWD SURGE - it's much more bigger than what u think " I wouldn't go in if it was me"/"I don't understand these ppl who went in". No. Nobody would've thought gng to a party turns into a disaster, a literal disaster.And also consider the amount of confusion at that time in the minds of those ppl.
same worst i saw video where the person was at there were no police NOTHING there . talks abt their useless police in south korea lols
@@shreshtaraj319read someone saying the ones from downhill could see everything from uphill but still went to go up and join the crowd pushing
Many people were saying they were floating in the air, their feet not even touching the ground. Then the fallen started to cause people being stuck in place, the force was so strong, you try to put out and lose your shoes. It was bumper to bumper movement until that alleyway.
This video is SO IMPORTANT. let me say this again, THIS VIDEO IS SO IMPORTANT!!! when the people stop moving forward and yet the crowd force pushing on them is so relentless, it was like watching those tsunami videos from japan. The power of the crowd, the death kneel, this should be required viewing for everyone to understand crowds and to be aware of ones surrounding. Goddam this is a nightmare
True, the crown push was severe and a huge reason people actually got crushed. Imagine if people just waited for their turn without pushing. It’s a nightmare made by so many different reasons
The real music that night was pounding edm pumped into the alley, even a loud speaker wouldn't have been able to be heard over the thunderous music.
Just watching this makes it hard to breathe. Can’t even imagine being there. RIP itaewon crowd.
My thoughts are with all of the families and friends of the people who died. I'm watching because it's honestly new to me that this could kill so many people and just trying to understand it. I've spent time slowly moving in packed crowds and making my way to the front of concerts at festivals without any concern so now I know. Luckily they have been carefully controlled crowds that I've been in, but I think it's still good to know about this.
How is it that 15 minutes after people have begun being crushed people are still able to enter the street above the alley
This was the hardest day of my life😢 나는 오늘 누나와 사촌을 잃었다. 나는 간신히 탈출했다 우리 하나님 감사합니다
i’m so so sorry for your loss
Sorry to hear that 😢 My condolences to you and your family. I’m glad you made it out
Did you step on anybody?
I’m so sorry for your loss. I hope you’re doing okay, I’m so glad you made it out. may your sister and cousin rest in peace.
@@hauntingcheesebro
I honestly don't understand. I don't understand why the police force didn't send out officers to handle the situation properly when they were alerted multiple times before the incident happened. I don't understand how they didn't get to deal with the crowding earlier. I don't understand how they seemed to not take the situation seriously enough to take immediate action.
But most of all, I don't understand how people could look at a very crowded space where people are touching shoulder to shoulder and chest to chest just to get from one place to another, and still get into that crowd knowing something dangerous could happen. I don't understand how there's a damn large number of people who could see the dangers of such an overcrowded alley from the streets, and yet join in with the crowd just to get to the other side. I don't understand how a large number of people could see the dangers of the tightness of the alley and the walls being too narrow, and people obviously overcrowding an area, and yet still just think about getting to the other side. I don't know how it couldn't have been obvious how dangerous it was to go through those streets and tight spaces and to avoid that kind of area when you've seen how crowded it was.
Obviously, in the footage shown here, it was on the extreme side of that night already, but I'm talking about minutes and maybe even hours before this incident happened. Other than just some people calling the police for help in crowd guiding to avoid any crowd-related tragedy, how weren't enough people able to recognize how dangerous it was to squeeze yourself through a tight space and pack yourself through a slow-moving crowd just to get to the other street. If one could argue that such crowds were a bit common and especially in Korea's subways, it's obviously different in a train when people are packed. Even without the downslope of the alley, the difference between people packed in a train and in a moving crowd, is that in a moving crowd, anyone can trip, anyone can fall, anyone can get hurt a lot more easily than when a crowd remains dormant. I just really don't understand how enough people found it okay to go through a crowd packed with people with only the option of a tight squeeze just to get to the other side of the alley. I can't believe it. Why didn't enough people stay away from such a thick, tight crowd in Itaewon when upon arriving, the place was obviously filled and just PACKED with people. How was this incident not foreseen by many. If people just gave way, and had some sense and responsibility for their life and for order, this wouldn't have happened.
But I can't help but really blame the authorities. If they didn't have any good excuse as to why the complaints and warnings weren't taken seriously and only until much later did effective police arrive, then what the hell were on their minds. They could've prevented this incident from happening. They could've guided the people and the crowd, just as that one woman did. They could've done a lot.
There are a lot of videos here and discussions on reddit about how the crowd crush happens. The fact is that there is always free space behind the crowd. And when you approach it seems to you that everything is fine and you dont see what is in the distance. And the viewing radius of a person is the heads of people in few meters in front of him. A person does not even realize how bad things are ahead. When he realizes the danger of the situation, its already too late, since new people have already come up from behind, the person is surrounded on all sides by people and he literally has nowhere to go. In the video from a man who got into this situation, you can see how abruptly the crowd builds up. Video: "2/7 360° Video - Korea Halloween 2022 Crowd Surge Disaster" It was around 8-9 pm.
When a person gets into such a situation, he has nothing left to do but move with the crowd. The crowd turns into one and takes the form of a wave that carries you by inertia
But the people who were standing at the bottom of the descent saw everything perfectly and still tried to pass, they were guilty
And in Korea, in Seoul, people are used to large crowds of people. So their sense of crowd danger is pretty low.
if you want to know more about the crush of the crowd, there is a good video: "Crowd Crush and Collapse, Part 1: What They Are and How They Happen Sahwin" There is also part 2 on this channel
The top leadership of the police and the Ministry of the Interior and Safety are 100% to blame for this. They knew that on that day there would be a huge crowd of people, they themselves announced this. But they did nothing to prevent the situation. In addition, their new presidency handed over huge control over the police and security services to the top leadership and the Ministry of the Interior and Safety. He also moved the presidential office and broke with long tradition, which required more protection for him. And on Halloween itself, most of the police were busy with protests and even dressed up in civilian clothes to catch drug dealers. And they did not react to the situation in any way.
They demanded that top management be held accountable, rather than shifting responsibility to ordinary employees. But they still found scapegoats in the form of ordinary policemen, firemen and even workers of the metro station.
I feel very sorry for these poor families and people who had to leave so terribly. And it also doesn’t fit in my head how negligent the security forces were that day and how this could have been allowed to happen. Rest their souls 😞
@@sukjuni_ Thanks for the very clear explanation. It teaches us not to go to crowded places even when seemingly from outside it looks fine. I don't understand what you meant by people standing at the bottom of the descent saw everything and still tried to pass. Can you elaborate?
@@EVL-xj5vc I'm very happy if my answer was helpful to you. After I saw how dangerous it could be, I searched a lot. I meant the people who stood at the bottom of the alley. The people split into two flows, one went down, others went up. Therefore, people from the bottom of the alley (who walked into the alley from the main street) saw perfectly what was happening above. But they still tried to get to the top.
Hope u understand🙂 Sorry, english isnt my native language
Oh and sorry, I mistyped the title of the video. The video where the person started getting stuck in the crowd is "2/7 360° Video - Korea Halloween 2022 Crowd Surge Disaster". The end of this video shows well how people have nowhere to go. There are many parts of this video on his channel
@@EVL-xj5vc The best advice that experts give is that if there are more than 8 people around you per square meter and your body begins to lose all freedom of movement, you need to leave immediately. But in any case, society usually does not teach this, does not teach about the danger of a crush of the crowd. So, it is necessary that such a crowd was always controlled. Especially when its known how big it will be
Hopefully, a lesson was learned from this. Otherwise, the past will be repeated in the future. It's just sad that incidents like this have to occur before proper safety procedures are put in place. This celebration is known to have really large crowds, year after year, yet nothing was done to ensure safety. Some years were probably near misses for a trajedy like this, but it looks like those near misses caught up. Don't rely on others to keep you safe. You need to be proactive about it. Hopefully, this is a better year. Peace.
They still happen. The Station Nightclub fire was another incident where people senselessly died from a crowd surge.
I hope all of those shoving from the back never forget this moment. Innocent lives lost because people can't think of others. This isn't fair. To those lives lost and their families friends and fans. It kills me after seeing astroworld and now this. May the beautiful lives lost rest in peace 😭💜🙏
How can they have control when they were also pushed from back side? U can see they can’t see from other side alley?
Seeing this and the moment things... happen... My heart breaks all over again. Praying for those lost and the ones left behind.
You can see how people are pushing. Nobody has common sense now and days.
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No one had respect for each other.sorry but I been to places with 100,000 people and at least we almost all respected our bubble spaces.
Tell me, my dear, what would you have done if you were there?
Most of them are even stubborn enough to start chanting "push" and the crowd went along with it. They bought it upon themselves.
@@ace1x177 They didn’t bring it upon themselves. They just wanted to get to where they were trying to go. Nobody had any idea what was actually happening until it was too late.
I don't like large crowds. Seeing this footage really feels uncomfortable. RIP
i feel u so hard!
I experienced a strong crush once in the 1990's at an outdoor rock music festival in Ontario, Canada. When the crush occurs, you feel helpless. I remember the lead singer of the Australian band Midnight Oil stopped playing their set, imploring those from the back of the crowd to stop pushing forward, and calling for more security to help people at the front. Itaewon must have a been a nightmare.
Condolences to those who have unfortunately lost their loved ones 🕯️such a traumatic incident that they've have gone through. I cannot bear to see them screaming, crying, panicking for help 💔
May they rest and peace, and fly high 🕊️
I hope this won't happen ever again to avoid more tragedies in the future
People get dangerously illogical when joining overcrowded movement. This video needs to be played on TV every year before every major event to remind people the basic rule of gathering rule - that's the only 100% way how to keep people constantly aware of it to avoid any future tragedy like that.
The logical mammals act more selfish than insects...
something weird is happening in sk so many tragedies so many suicide so many missing people and cults and lowest birth rate in the world their population is decreasing insanely day y day
Where are the 50 or so policemen and women who should have limited foot traffic? Where are the many metal fence like barriers that should have guided flow of foot traffic? Why wasn't the transit station exit closed?? where were the co=ordinators of foot traffic who should have been stationed on high platforms about two and a half times the crowd 's height observing and directing closures of streets and transit exits???? Where are and I mean where are the directors of foot traffic/ the bright flashing lights, the public address systems??? This is really mass Negligent Homicide. The mayor should have hired crowd experts from other nations if his police force was too small. Crowd direction would have been an excellent job for about 200 trained military conscripts who could have used walky-talkies to check in on a minute to minute basis. Where are the ladders to lead up higher?
I see this as an Avoidable tragedy if someone in the city government had CARED!!! Also someone in the President's office could have been checking with the Mayor of Seoul to see the Plans for foot traffic and the alternative routes for attendees in excess of specific numbers. There should have been emergency contingency plans too. In New Orleans of the US where hundreds of thousands of visitors would crowd like this there are one way foot traffic streets and wide bands of no-car traffic, and police by the hundreds out. This was governmental failure of the worst sort!!!!!! Impeach all the related officials and train and employ crowd foot traffic officers and plans for all, all large gatherings not just when thr RICH and Powerfu;l, or POLITICAL high 'mucky-mucks' want personal safety. Again I say impeach twenty or thirty middle managers and hire folks from other countries that know how to do this sort of thing.
those images are really haunting , rest in peace to the victims
together with Sewol ferry disaster, Koreans must ask themselves
DO THEY HAVE A GOVERNMENT at all !!!
I was caught in a stream of people like this one time in Mardi Gras in New Orleans. It was terrifying and I'll never get caught in a gaggle like that again. There are doors along that alleyway into bars and restaurants. Why didn't people enter those doors to alleviate the pressure?
Apparently, the pressure of the crowd was too strong to move an inch. Multiple survivors say they were literally in the air being held up by the crowd and lost their shoes. Several unlucky victims had both arms broken from the force 😢
alot of the bars and shops had closed up for the night around 10pm apparently
I was in the event with my mother and my grandma judging by the videos I've seen if my grandma didn't get distracted by something we could've be in the crush directly
lots of respect for you noticing that
thanks to grandma getting distracted had diverted you folks away from the impending danger
I was shocked by this news, Im half the world away.
Its Halloween, an ancient Irish festival. Exported to the USA with Irish immigration I was suprised Korea would even have heard of it. Such sadness for what is supposed to be a fun night.
Likewise in Dublin we had a crowd tragedy on Valentines Day 50 young people died as a result.
My condolences to all the families of the victims and to the citizens of Seoul, its a heartbreaking 💔 tragedy.
Could just imagine that if you survived it that you might have stopped one of the people who have died Tragically honestly I feel so sorry and I hope this never happens ever again in the lifetime
Rest in peace to the victim. Luckily is blurred, First time I watch the news about what happened I can't sleep for a few days because some of the videos are not blurred I watch it. So, I saw their faces begging for help. I got anxious after that, and even if not there I felt their pain.
How people in the back can just push without thinking!? Condolences to the families.
Shout out to the guy who had enough foresight to climb the wall and avoid being crushed
RIP TO THOSE THAT DIED
This seriously shows lack of security and strategy...
I would blame those selfish inconsiderate people who pushed from behind due to impatience.
They're pushed from people coming out from the train stations which is also completely full. Should the people at the train station stand on the train tracks?
@@kaneidareyue7715 That's pushing from behind no? You reach the train station that is jam pack and you still push yourself into the station? That's not even impatience.... that is stupid.
@@marcus5368 Out of the station. You walking with the crowd. Ain't pushing yet from the looks of the cctv cameras. Its the street perpendicular to the alleyway where contact with others becomes closer and tighter.
I almost can't breathe watching this 😢
Ohho so heart breaking may God blessed stay blessed stay tuned,🤲👍
I wouldn't even want to walk down that street at night knowing what happened there. Those souls might still be there, lost and confused.
Such a strange phenomenon... it's really creepy to watch people behave in such an insectile way... Idk, this just really creeper me out...
could be easily avoided..
too many self-centred people nowadays
Does anyone know why all those people gathered in that alley in the first place??? It seems the festivities were held on the main streets? Why did all those people go to that alley at the same time?
it's the shortest route between the subway station on the main street and the parallel street with all the pubs
Idky, but my guess is that bc that main street was so busy, maybe they thought it'd be easier to get out of the crowd thru the alley street.
If you check the map, that alley is located directly midway thru that main street (right next to a hotel) in the video and leads to another large street.
From the direction of the natural crowd flow the cctvs is showing on the main street, there are essentially 2 much smaller alleyways the crowd flowing could've naturally gone thru first (and probably did) before flowing into the alley of the incident.
That alley and the closest alleyway prior to it is located 5 buildings apart from each other on the same side of the street. But passing it, the next closest (and last) alley before the end of the main street is located a hotel and a building over, also on the same side of the street (and they take up more space than even the 5 buildings prior).
On the other side of the main street, there are no alleyways (it's a full street wall of buildings/properties), so the crowd flow going along that side of the main street would actually have ppl needing to walk the full street to get out, unless they move against the natural crowd flow to get to an alleyway.
@@Room142 I see, thanks.
@@em5522 thank you for the explanation. It still boggles my mind how people would just pile on top of each other when they see there's no place to move. :(
@@EvaMariposa oh yeah, I'm surprised by some videos showing ppl trying to enter that crowd in the main street from the outside when it was clearly so full.
But as for that particular place, at the time, the crowd was moving pretty much at the same pace in the alley and the main street (while it was congested, the crowd was still moving), so I can see why ppl would've thought they could get out through there. And also at that time, once a person entered the alley, it was basically impossible to turn around even if sm1 changed their mind abt going down there.
It makes me wonder how the end of the alley looked like for traffic to move that slow.
I got claustrophobic just watching this. This was terrifying!
Who'd spread rumors of a celebrity in a bar, causing a stampede? Sounds malicious. Lets hope no one went to the devil causing this horror. I hope it wasn't anyone from Corrupt natwest! 999?
You think that why this happened? The celebrity thing was just a rumor and found out to be not true. It’s the location of the alley that made so many people take the alley and the pushing and lack of crowd control
Look how stupid people can be when they don't pay attention and ignore things around them, even if that thing is something that is unnecessarily danger.
Police failed them all, crowd control could've saved their lives! Disgraceful
Wish it wasn’t blurry, so sick of censorship
I was in hospital at the time this happened and since my mental health was so bad I as well. I found out a whole month later. 😢
I have a Korean friend who lives in my country since childhood, but he went to college that year. He was planning on going to Itaewon for Halloween and he told me how excited he was about it. He was texting me when I was in the hospital not telling me what had happened to protect me. Then when I found out about the accident I asked him. He told me he wanted to go but he's grandmother that lives in Korea (that's where he was staying) wasn't feeling so well that day so he didn't want to leave her and his aunt alone, so he stayed home that night. I can't imagine how devastating it is for the families of the ones that died...
What was the point of even being in that alley anyways? If it was only being used as a pass through, what was on the other side that was so important?
It was all caught on tape, the whole tragedy from start to finish😢😢
Where? Where to watch, what’s the channel name?
Crazy to even imagine this could happen to anyone ...regardless of size and shape .....if they were children the death toll would be sky high .....
years ago in some parts in India same were happened i think quite few times .....many have died ...Women and children of all age were too in it ...I didn't blived it first but now I do ..
RIP Poor souls
Me and my 3 kids were in a crowed place like this in USA. It was to see christmas lights and I started seeing how bad it got and decided to get out with my kids before a tragedy and we open the fence and left. One of the staff they didnt want o let us out even thought he saw it got very bad. Until me and one woman started to tell him more angry to let us go and left. It was very scary
Soooo... why do we gather in large numbers for anything anywhere anytime? I'm not talking about an alleyway in a city, I'm talking about the city. Is that what one wants their one life experience to have been? That's the tragedy, the ones who die in the city AND the ones who live in the city.
Who in their right mind saw crowd this big and thought to himself "yeah, I'll go check that out"
Almost Zero communication, barely any secuirty, no one had respect for each other. Rip all victims
so painful
I’m confused … goodness how did they all just die like that ?
literally suffocating
There was a downhill grade. People kept pushing from the back then people at the front end fell down like dominoes and it formed a wall of bodies. There were people trying to pull them out.
No one has learned from Loveparade Desaster
This accident is caused due to "pali pali" culture ! nothing else, people there have no sense of their surrondings and they urge you to move forward no matter what the consequences are.. I lived in korea enough to know
Sometimes, we underestimate culture as being part of the problem, but in reality indeed it is
who was pushing from way back and why.
The way they were grasping so hard at the side wallls reallly was so upsetting
Seems lile they knew what they were getting into, still sucks they lost so many people but didn't they think about it before they all crowded into that small ass area? Tragic but definitely could have been avoided
True
Oh God
RIP to all the victims
so ironic. they survived covid just to face this
wish there was a better quality video
Of course there needed to have heavy police presence but I also think that Koreans as a society are less patient with their time and especially younger people who have been partying. Not fully knowing the situation I think that pushing helped make the situation worse.
Stay away from crowded places.
i cant breathe, and here i am just watching this
This is bone chilling
i honestly really dont get what is so fun in crowded place like that
it's incredible how we are so "civilised" but we can't keep still in a situation like this. we panic, we rush, we shove, we push, we re so animalic, so brutal, so uncivilised, so primal. this species still has a long way to go. imagine if they all just sit still, calm, relax. nobody move and everyone would just evacuate,
There wouldn't happen to be an un-blurred version?
they can't legally make the unblurred version public, because of laws on privacy and individual mage rights
Rest in peace😢
In the end no one admit pushing
There’s a million cameras in cities, I understand you can’t monitor them all.
Still, for anybody who did watched this scenario unfold. Well, I can imagine severe PTSD
this already feels like a long time ago. wonder if ppl remember enough to take precaution in future events
It’s so sad but rest their souls 😢😢😢😢
These crushes are the result of selfish people of the attendees pushing and shoving each other out of fun without knowing the consequences happening at the front. How can they blame the govt when these attendeees are the actual culprit.
Korean is so obsessed with any western celebrations.so, are they still celebrate Halloween after this tragedy?
The music is inappropriate and too loud
Look at all the sheeps. I can't understand why people like to go to crowded place where they can barely walk.
It’s sad that no authority or media have called out what caused it. In Korea, pushing in a crowd is normal. If Koreans didn’t push in crowded places, this wouldn’t happen.
Absolutely horrific! My heart goes out to the poor lost souls whose lives were taken way too soo, & their families 🙏❤️🙏 I know there were various factors that led to this catastrophe, but the only thing I don't understand is how ANYONE can be comfortable being in such crowded places to begin with 😰
At 2:25 i can See That people on the right side are staying at the same Place and looking at the crowd, why didnt they move? Thats how the alley gets smaller and smaller. Cant they see that they are blocking the alley?
I hope they learnt a lesson which cause such this horrible incident, rest in peace
where can I see this video without blur?
but this question may be so far fetched but was the store owners who were open along that alley way was helping at least some of the people out like only letting a few people in and shutting the doors so other people wasnt able to come in, like basically saving a few people from getting crushed or did the owners shut there doors completely and just said these youngins will figure it out eventually??? that's the ultimate question i always wanted to ask after watching a few of these videos
Idk but every few years, this seems to happen to the young people of sk mainly due to the adult/authorities negligience. It's like a curse or something. RIP to these souls and their bereaved families.