{"id":49983,"date":"2022-11-05T03:00:28","date_gmt":"2022-11-04T18:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/04\/itaewon-halloween-seoul-crowd-crush-south-korea-youth-anger-tested-again-by-tragedy"},"modified":"2022-11-05T03:00:28","modified_gmt":"2022-11-04T18:00:28","slug":"i-cant-be-protected-south-koreas-youth-tested-again-by-itaewon-tragedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=49983","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I can\u2019t be protected\u2019: South Korea\u2019s youth tested again by Itaewon tragedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Crisis of trust is brewing as young people traumatised by 2014 Sewol ferry disaster grapple with another preventable tragedy<\/p>\n<p>In a Seoul gymnasium, rows of trainers, high heels, jackets, and Halloween accessories lie spread out on the floor. They are all numbered in the hope that their owners will come and find them. Many may never be collected.<\/p>\n<p>They belong to victims and survivors of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/29\/dozens-of-people-crushed-by-large-crowd-at-halloween-festivities-in-south-korea\">last Saturday\u2019s crowd crush<\/a> in Seoul, which has so far killed 156 people. Ninety-four per cent of the dead were in their teens, 20s, and 30s.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/04\/itaewon-halloween-seoul-crowd-crush-south-korea-youth-anger-tested-again-by-tragedy\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crisis of trust is brewing as young people traumatised by 2014 Sewol ferry disaster grapple with another preventable tragedyIn a Seoul gymnasium, rows of trainers, high heels, jackets, and Halloween accessories lie spread out on the floor. They are all&#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":[41,2798,222,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49983","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\/49983","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=49983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49984,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49983\/revisions\/49984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}