{"id":49862,"date":"2022-11-01T13:30:58","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T04:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/01\/how-do-crowd-crushes-happen-stampede-myth-what-happened-in-the-seoul-itaewon-halloween-crush"},"modified":"2022-11-01T13:30:58","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T04:30:58","slug":"crowd-crushes-how-disasters-like-itaewon-happen-how-can-they-be-prevented-and-the-stampede-myth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=49862","title":{"rendered":"Crowd crushes: how disasters like Itaewon happen, how can they be prevented, and the \u2018stampede\u2019 myth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Crowd crushes are wholly preventable, predictable and avoidable, experts say. Here is what we can learn from the Halloween crowd crush in Seoul<\/p>\n<p>More than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/30\/seoul-halloween-crush-itaewon-reaction\">150 people have died<\/a> in a crowd crush while celebrating Halloween in one of Seoul\u2019s most popular nightlife districts. South Korean authorities have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/31\/seoul-itaewon-crowd-crush-south-korea-in-mourning\">opened an investigation <\/a>into the disaster. But how do crowd crushes like the one in Itaewon happen?<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/01\/how-do-crowd-crushes-happen-stampede-myth-what-happened-in-the-seoul-itaewon-halloween-crush\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crowd crushes are wholly preventable, predictable and avoidable, experts say. Here is what we can learn from the Halloween crowd crush in SeoulMore than 150 people have died in a crowd crush while celebrating Halloween in one of Seoul\u2019s most popular ni&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2666,"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-49862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-seoul-crowd-crush","category-south-korea","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49862","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\/2666"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49863,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49862\/revisions\/49863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}