More than 150 people got crushed to death in Seoul's Itaewon neighborhood last week, recalling the 1995 Sampoong disaster.
more than 150 people in Seoul’s Itaewon neighborhood last week — the single-bloodiest incident in Seoul since Sampoong’s collapse. On the Saturday before Halloween, tens of thousands of partygoers gathered in the area for Halloween festivities. Some people, caught in a narrow alley as people tried to move in different directions, got pressed into one another and suffocated.
The episode has led some to question whether the country has learned anything in the three decades since Sampoong. Author and journalist Lee Sun-min, a survivor of the Sampoong disaster, is one of those people. In 1995, she was a recent high school graduate working part time at Sampoong. She oversaw a group of lockers on the department store’s basement floor, where shoppers would leave their belongings while they went shopping.“Someone called for me from the other side [of the hall], so I said ‘yes’ and was about to walk over to where I heard my name,” shein a recent interview.
“I’ve said this before: It feels like the entire country is playing Squid Game,” she added, referring to the hit Netflix drama series that depicts a fictional life-or-death survival game.The abrupt loss of hundreds of people in 1995 shook South Korea, forcing it to confront what it had tolerated during its swift economic ascension — safety shortcuts, neglect and greed.
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