{"id":49814,"date":"2022-10-31T16:57:54","date_gmt":"2022-10-31T07:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/31\/seoul-itaewon-crowd-crush-south-korea-in-mourning"},"modified":"2022-11-01T00:37:58","modified_gmt":"2022-10-31T15:37:58","slug":"south-korea-in-mourning-as-questions-raised-over-deadly-itaewon-crowd-crush-in-seoul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=49814","title":{"rendered":"South Korea opens investigation into deadly Itaewon crowd crush in Seoul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shops closed and concerts cancelled after Halloween party surge kills more than 150 people, as questions raised over crowd control<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/31\/grief-over-loved-ones-lost-in-seoul-deadly-halloween-crowd-crush-itaewon\">\u2018I don\u2019t know how to live\u2019: grief over loved ones lost in Seoul\u2019s deadly Halloween crowd crush<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>South Korean authorities have opened an investigation into the deaths of more than 150 people, in a crush in a nightlife district in Seoul on Saturday as experts said crowd controls could have reduced the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/31\/how-did-the-seoul-itaewon-halloween-crowd-crush-happen-unfolded-a-visual-guide\">surge that led to the disaster<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It remained unclear what led the huge Halloween party crowd to head into a narrow alley in the Itaewon area. Witnesses said people fell on each other \u201clike dominoes\u201d, and some victims were bleeding from their noses and mouths while being given CPR.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/31\/seoul-itaewon-crowd-crush-south-korea-in-mourning\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shops closed and concerts cancelled after Halloween party surge kills more than 150 people, as questions raised over crowd control\u2018I don\u2019t know how to live\u2019: grief over loved ones lost in Seoul\u2019s deadly Halloween crowd crushSouth Korean authorities hav&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":267,"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":[41,2798,222,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-seoul-crowd-crush","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\/49814","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\/267"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49814"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49846,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49814\/revisions\/49846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}