{"id":49795,"date":"2022-10-30T23:10:38","date_gmt":"2022-10-30T14:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/30\/seoul-halloween-crush-itaewon-reaction"},"modified":"2022-10-30T23:10:38","modified_gmt":"2022-10-30T14:10:38","slug":"how-could-this-happen-seoul-in-disbelief-after-fatal-halloween-crush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=49795","title":{"rendered":"\u2018How could this happen?\u2019: Seoul in disbelief after fatal Halloween crush"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Residents gathered in Itaewon try to make sense of Saturday evening\u2019s disaster, in which at least 153 people died<\/p>\n<p>There was deep silence in the air around the site where, the night before, 153 people had died in a crowd crush in one of Seoul\u2019s most popular nightlife districts. It was a warm Sunday afternoon filled with shock and disbelief.<\/p>\n<p>Locals and foreign residents gathered behind police ribbons in the vicinity of Itaewon station to pay their respects to the deceased and attempt to make sense of what had occurred hours earlier. The crowd crush was one of the worst disasters the country has seen in years.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/30\/seoul-halloween-crush-itaewon-reaction\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residents gathered in Itaewon try to make sense of Saturday evening\u2019s disaster, in which at least 153 people diedThere was deep silence in the air around the site where, the night before, 153 people had died in a crowd crush in one of Seoul\u2019s most popu&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2929,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,222,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-south-korea","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2929"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49795"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49796,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49795\/revisions\/49796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}