South Korea's police chief has said their emergency response to the Itaewon crush was "inadequate ... to celebrate Halloween without restrictions for the first time since Covid.

Scores of people have died in a crush among huge Halloween crowds in a popular area of South Korea's capital. Videos from the scene show people struggling in dense crowds and emergency workers ...

SEOUL--Halloween celebrations in South Korea were subdued on the eve of the ... crowds before the surge turned deadly. The Itaewon crush caused a nationwide outpouring of grief as the dead were ...

What we know so far of the Seoul Halloween Crowd Crush Tragedy. Thousands of predominantly young people have converged in Itaewon in the center of the South Korean capital of Seoul. It's the most ...

SEOUL - South Korea's President Yoon Suk-yeol declared a period of national mourning on Sunday after a Halloween crush killed some 151 people in a packed nightlife area in Seoul. Yoon expressed ...

At least 151 people died and some 82 more were injured in a deadly crowd crush in the South Korean capital during Halloween celebrations. The victims were mostly in their teens and 20s and ...

A South Korean court on Wednesday convicted three former police officers of destroying internal files and other evidence in an attempted cover-up after a Halloween crowd crush that killed nearly ...

Itaewon has long been a popular place to celebrate Halloween, attracting revellers from across South Korea and from other ... “a full two hours before the crush happened”, Sky News, and ...

The streets were packed to the brim for Halloween festivities ... in Itaewon's narrow streets turned into a deadly human crush that left 156 people dead and at least 151 injured.

Gatherings have not been banned in Itaewon over Halloween this year ... on behalf of old rival North Korea. Kim Young-nam, a mother who lost her daughter in the crush, said she wanted to restore ...

Grace Rached was killed on Saturday night when a Halloween party flooded a narrow alley in the night-life district of Seoul, causing a deadly crowd crush while on holiday in South Korea with ...