Investigation into police logs around Itaewon show emergency calls were ignored for four hours before the accident
Source: Korea Ilbo via Nate
1. [+3,385, -222] Dereliction of duty is applicable for criminal punishment
2. [+2,816, -246] So we shouldn't have been looking to catch the bunny ear man, we should've been catching the police all along
3. [+200, -10] If this is fact, then the police had time and opportunity to prevent what happened, and they should be held responsible for it
4. [+186, -10] So calling the police to report 'discomfort' does not count as a real report in the eyes of the police.. I see...
5. [+178, -26] So do people still think the government is not at fault? They did nothing even while reports were being called in. How is this not the government's fault?
6. [+172, -5] This is undeniable proof that people were requesting for help and nothing was done
7. [+135, -11] Why did the police categorize the first call as a 'discomfort report'??????? How many reports do you need for it to be escalated to a severe situation?????????????? What kind of excuse is this for their own dereliction of duty?
8. [+126, -3] Let's start by having the Yongsan police resign. Investigations need to be launched into what they were doing for the four hours after that first report. We know this isn't the first time police stood around wasting time after reports came in.
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Article: [Exclusive] '79 calls' to the 112 right up to the tragedy... local task force got off work
Source: SBS via Nate
1. [+1,257, -77] The police should've been on it with the first two calls but 79 calls went by with nothing done. I'm so tired of our police force only ever doing something once people are dead.
2. [+1,237, -75] Everyone needs to voluntarily resign.
3. [+1,211, -130] We basically have no government at this point, right?
4. [+55, -6] So is there no point in calling 112 anymore? We're all just supposed to fend for ourselves out here now?
5. [+54, -8] Feels like we're living in a country without a president. We all have to fend for ourselves. Don't trust anyone. These people won't apologize for the 150 deaths that happened on their watch.
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Source: JTBC via Nate
1. [+2,077, -55] I don't know how this could happen. Can you imagine how desperate the people must've felt having to call the police because of how many people were crowding around them?
2. [+1,972, -51] Ah, this is really so tragic... Until when must our country continue to repeat tragic accident after tragic accident....
3. [+1,832, -125] So what exactly were the 112 and 119 doing on that day. They had to have seen through their CCTV just how big the crowds were forming for several days prior to the accident. Did they just leave the TVs on with no one paying attention? They had reports coming in for hours chose to ignore them the whole time. It was only when people started dying that they finally left for the scene. What's the point then? ㅡㅡ???? Regular citizens were already giving CPR and doing what the police only just now arrived to do ㅡㅡㅡㅡ
4. [+114, -7] I understand passing off a few calls as just people partying too hard but when more calls keep coming in, wouldn't it be common sense to just go out and check out what's going on?
5. [+40, -5] No matter how hard you try not to blame your country for things like this... what can you do when your own police are ignoring calls for help. I just don't understand why they didn't even bother to go out there and see what was going on. Sigh.
6. [+37, -6] Just speaking off of logic, wouldn't you still want to be out there as a policeman to check that things are going smoothly before any reports are called in?
7. [+31, -4] Most people don't really call the 112 number so for reports to have been called in to 112 means that everyone was desperate
8. [+17, -1] So there's record of police responding to at least four of the calls, which means they went but didn't do a thorough job of assessing the situation. I don't think they could've returned to their office after seeing what was actually happening at the scene. Why wasn't more police help requested? What was their response to these calls?
9. [+16, -5] Citizens were reporting the dangers of the situation, asking for help for four hours before the accident... We are in a state of no governent. May they rest in peace.
10. [+14, -0] So they responded to four of the calls... but what did they do? Just look at the scene and go back to the office...?
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Source: Naver
1. [+201, -5] This is unfortunate. If anyone had cared, if anyone had realized that the onslaught of calls was something worth checking out, they could've handled the accident before it happened
2. [+160, -18] I can't believe this. That in the year 2022, 150 young lives were lost "trampled to death" in our country and that no one is taking responsibility for it. Citizens were calling in reports and asking for help for hours before the accident, but the government keeps calling it an accident that couldn't be helped. Everyone refused to apologize at first, but only now are they slowly putting down their heads one by one. It doesn't feel genuine. I have to head out to the streets to work once again tomorrow, who can I trust to protect me and my family? It feels hopeless and depressing. We are all the same people we were before in 2022, but it feels like our country has changed.
3. [+124, -8] This feels like the fault of the police. It gives me goosebumps... that so many calls went unanswered. You would think it would be common sense to do something, anything, when so many calls are coming in... when so many people are saying that they feel like they're going to be crushed to death... but all the police ever did was ask them for their location and then.. nothing ㅡㅡ
4. [+101, -12] Why do the police even bother answering calls? Do they not even communicate with each other? And why would you keep asking back "where is your location?" to every single call? The police killed these people. Everyone on duty that night should be up for suspension.
5. [+17, -1] This is a tragedy that could've been prevented by the police and it seems like they stood by and chose to do nothing. I really want to ask them... what were you doing during all of those calls being made?? Who is responsible for this?
6. [+15, -0] So many calls made before something terrible happened, what were they doing?
7. [+15, -1] The police ignored them. Calls to the 112 sounded urgent.
8. [+14, -0] So sad and enraging... that the police just took these calls and ignored them..
9. [+9, -1] So they ignored these calls? Isn't it the most basic job of the police to go to the scene of the reports being made? I wonder at what point they decided these calls weren't worth responding to?
10. [+8, -0] My heart broke as I read the call logs. What exactly were the police doing while people were calling in, scared that they were going to be crushed to death? This whole accident could've been prevented..
11. [+8, -0] God dammit, reports were made four hours before the accident! Four hours... four hours before! ㅜㅜ
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