Itaewon Halloween festival reports over 100 deaths
Article: Fire authorities, "120 dead in Itaewon crowd catastrophe, 100 injured"
Source: Yonhap News via Nate
1. [+1,095, -29] This is seriously so shocking... I think the right thing to do now is to get rid of these Halloween parties...
2. [+930, -12] This is so tragic, I can't even fall asleep right now... I felt like the initial reports of 21 deaths were still too much, but it went from 59 to 120 in a moment...
3. [+822, -10] 120 deaths.. that's so scary
4. [+123, -1] 120 deaths currently... I can't believe 120 people have been crushed to death on a street in Seoul without a weapon anywhere... Probably the most shocking news of the year, really...
5. [+114, -3] Their parents worked so hard to raise them and put them through college only for them to die so senselessly like this. How painful for the parents... Most of the deaths were kids in their early twenties, just barely starting life... Their poor parents...
6. [+111, -7] We need to ban Halloween festivals from here on out. No more at pre-schools, nurseries, schools, any educational facility...
7. [+111, -11] I can't imagine how scared they must've felt while under all that pressure.. Someone lost their family tonight, a friend.. Please don't comment that they deserved it and quietly keep it moving.
8. [+96, -7] This is a huge catastrophe with this many deaths... Please ban the word Halloween from today on.
9. [+89, -3] Goosebumps everywhere... I completely lost my sleep with how shocked I am...
10. [+87, -1] 120... I'm just speechless, really....
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Source: Nate
1. [+461, -10] Wow... who could've ever predicted that they would die from being crushed to death in the middle of Seoul like this... You never know with life.. how unfortunate. May they rest in peace.
2. [+358, -19] Halloween is not worth any of this, this is so crazy
3. [+307, -12] We might be getting more deaths ㅠ Halloween was never worth suffering a catastrophe like this ㅠ may they rest in peace
4. [+51, -4] Foreign media is reporting on this in live time on the news and YouTube and I'm so embarrassed to call myself Korean after seeing the groups of people still dancing and singing as people are dying around them...
5. [+45, -0] We will get more deaths because the people reported as injured might pass.. This is a catastrophe. The clips gave me goosebumps seeing people getting CPR after being crushed amidst bizarre costumes and nightclub music. Absolute insanity...
6. [+35, -0] This will go down in history books...
7. [+32, -1] I have decided not to treat the MZ generation as human beings after seeing them singing and dancing right next to emergency vehicles
8. [+31, -1] I saw all the videos. There are people screaming while being crushed, being pushed, people giving CPR while clubs are blasting music, stores still open for business, people dancing in front of emergency vehicles, attention wh*res posting pictures of corpses... our country is crazy.
9. [+30, -0] When I first heard the news, I assumed a building had crumbled but they were all just stampeded on????????????? I didn't even this was possible???????????
10. [+25, -0] This has become the absolute top news..
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Article: 149 suffer deaths under stampede at Itaewon's Halloween crowd... 76 injured
Source: Yonhap News via Naver
1. [+1,065, -23] Halloween will now be remembered as a day that 150 people died. To all of you celebrities who plan on wearing masks or whatever on SNS, wake up. I don't even understand how Halloween became such a big festivity in our country in these past years... and I hope that it is now forever remembered as a tragedy that 150 people died in.
2. [+623, -82] This was just an accident where people shoved and stepped on each other until they became victims themselves. Nothing more, nothing less. It's unfortunate but I don't feel bad for them..
3. [+551, -57] Complete disorder ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
4. [+63, -12] Americans must think this is so funny.. that some Asian country had 150 people die over their own country's tradition.. so pathetic
5. [+55, -5] An international embarrassment. Korea will probably be the only country in the world where 150 people died over Halloween. People will forever laugh at us for causing this big of a fuss over a western tradition.
6. [+46, -2] 149 people died??? How does this make sense?
7. [+43, -4] What in the world, how could this happen ㅠㅠ 149 dead on the streets.. so shocking. Let's please just get rid of this Halloween celebration altogether, from our pre-schools to academies.
8. [+32, -2] Such young kids... May they rest in peace. What are their parents to do, aigo...
9. [+31, -4] So damn embarrassing. None of you better ask for compensation from the country. You were there for your own enjoyment.
10. [+24, -4] These are the same people who don't even remember their own ancestors during New Year's or Chuseok but they were out here drinking and celebrating another country's tradition like this... such a barbaric death, not even worthy of remembrance.
11. [+24, -0] Big news that embarrasses us internationally
12. [+20, -0] The most ridiculous and empty news of the year
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Article: 'Catastrophe' EMT arrive in Itaewon... citizens who have no idea what's going on dance and sing
Source: Money Today via Nate
1. [+1,183, -13] Crazy people
2. [+1,103, -14] This is just insanity... this is so wrong
3. [+935, -21] None of us have any right to criticize another country after this
4. [+80, -1] That clip of the people dancing in front of the ambulance... That was the most shocking video I've seen all year. No one is sane.
5. [+70, -1] How can you claim you didn't know what was happening when that many ambulances are coming in? How can you still be singing and dancing? You are pathetic.
6. [+68, -1] I'm a part of the younger generation myself but seeing our country's youth makes me feel like our future is not that bright
7. [+61, -2] I now understand why the MZ generation is called the stupidest generation
8. [+61, -0] They "didn't know"? Anyone knows that when even one ambulance rolls up to an apartment, that something terrible has happened. How can you see that many ambulances and think nothing is wrong? You don't deserve to be a part of society if you're that dense.
9. [+46, -0] The twenties of this country are the absolute worst
10. [+39, -0] Even if you didn't know what was going on, how could you still be screaming and dancing to the sound of ambulance sirens?
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Article: Citizen waits while wiping tears
Source: Newsis via Nate
1. [+1,117, -13] So sad to see the back of someone's mother wiping her tears like this... I can't imagine how desperate she must feel while waiting. I pray that there are no more deaths and that everyone is safe.
2. [+988, -191] I wish people would stop accusing the victims of ending up like this because they were celebrating another country's tradition. They could not have predicted the crowd to have turned this way. It was a celebration of any holiday, just like Christmas.. a chance for the youth to spend just one day relieving their stress. Who could've predicted that this would happen? Most of them were in their twenties and it makes me tear up to think that they could've been my own son or daughter. If more of our local governments had paid more attention to security, what could've changed?
3. [+591, -85] Why does such a tragedy need to happen over a holiday that our country doesn't even celebrate... Sigh.. May they rest in peace. So unfortunate of these young friends.
4. [+50, -10] Halloween in the US is celebrated by young kids getting candy from their neighbors... In Korea, it's devolved into an excuse for young adults to get out and get drunk and have one night stands... If you're going to copy another country's holiday, why not copy it right...
5. [+36, -6] I feel bad that they died but please don't blame anyone else for what happened. You all went there to enjoy yourselves.
6. [+30, -5] This is someone's mother ㅠㅠ the backside of any mother always looks so sad
7. [+28, -3] No one could have predicted that their own child would end up like this ㅠ
8. [+27, -8] Everyone who went to celebrate in Itaewon was well aware that this isn't a holiday celebrated in our country. They went because they're young and that was the vibe. Have you all never gone somewhere just because that's where your friends wanted to go..? Think of these deaths as one of your own family members. Could you still accuse them of ending up like this all over a holiday our country doesn't celebrate? Maybe they just ended up there with their friends for one reason or the other, but right now, all that needs to be said is words of consolation.
9. [+14, -2] This is all the disease of SNS
10. [+12, -0] That poor mother.. her heart must be in pieces as she waits right now.. ㅠ
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Source: News 1 via Nate
1. [+930, -6] This is a catastrophe caused by people who think that you must shove ahead of you if there's a crowd. I see people who think like this in our subways.
2. [+691, -7] He got a gut feeling that he was going to be crushed to death if he stayed
3. [+663, -15] A moment's decision saved his life
4. [+55, -2] This needs to be an opportunity for schools to include lessons on crowd surges during fire training. There are already words for these accidents in English like 'crowd surges' or 'stampedes' so they're well aware of the dangers of such crowds. Us Koreans, however, aren't so aware because we live in such tight crowds as it is on the subways in the morning... Foreigners are more experienced in these issues... how unfortuante all around...
5. [+46, -1] I don't know how he knew but that's amazing of this foreigner
6. [+40, -0] Perhaps this foreigner learned what to do from watching European soccer games
7. [+24, -1] For him to have made such a decision must mean that there are several cases overseas of people dying in crowds?....
8. [+18, -0] This happens often overseas so he probably knew what to do immediately
9. [+18, -4] I hope that foreigner made it out alive...
10. [+16, -0] That's the kind of person who can survive anything
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