{"id":49858,"date":"2022-11-01T16:09:07","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T07:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/01\/seoul-halloween-crowd-crush-south-korea-itaewon-police-response"},"modified":"2022-11-01T23:37:17","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T14:37:17","slug":"seoul-crowd-crush-pm-and-police-admit-failures-as-memorial-services-held","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=49858","title":{"rendered":"Seoul crowd crush: PM and police admit failures as anger grows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Death toll rises to 156, as authorities admit crowd control measures were inadequate before Halloween disaster in Itaewon<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>South Korea\u2019s prime minister has called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/29\/dozens-of-people-crushed-by-large-crowd-at-halloween-festivities-in-south-korea\">Saturday\u2019s deadly Halloween crush in Seoul<\/a> a \u201cdisastrous accident that should not have happened\u201d, as authorities responded to growing public anger with a series of apologies.<\/p>\n<p>Expressing sorrow to bereaved families as the first memorial services were held, Han Duck-soo admitted that institutional failures in managing crowds played a role in the disaster, and said the government would work with all ministries, agencies and medical institutions to ensure such problems during spontaneous events never happened again.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/01\/seoul-halloween-crowd-crush-south-korea-itaewon-police-response\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Death toll rises to 156, as authorities admit crowd control measures were inadequate before Halloween disaster in ItaewonSouth Korea\u2019s prime minister has called Saturday\u2019s deadly Halloween crush in Seoul a \u201cdisastrous accident that should not have happ&#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":[41,2798,222],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-seoul-crowd-crush","category-south-korea"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49858","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=49858"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49889,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49858\/revisions\/49889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}