On Wednesday (Nov 2), Reuters reported the dying toll from the Halloween celebration crush late Saturday in Itaewon, central Seoul, stands at 156, with 172 injured, 33 of whom have been in severe situation.
While there is no such thing as a rationalization but from the authority as to why the group went into that one slim passage, there are rumours about what triggered it.
According to an leisure portal, netizens are speculating that celebrities and influencers have been current on the district on the mentioned night and that was what precipitated the surge.
One actor’s title related to this baseless hearsay is Yoo Ah-in, 36, who is alleged to stay in Itaewon and has typically visited the leisure district.
On Tuesday, his agency got here out with a press release to disclaim the hearsay.
It mentioned that the Seoul Vibe star “had no part in what happened in Itaewon” and that “he left Korea on Oct 29 and is at the moment abroad”.
According to an article, moreover Yoo, Korean influencer Park Jung-kyu (higher often called BJ Ok) has additionally been focused. As translated by the web site, Park spoke out in opposition to the web bullies.
“I first want to express my deepest condolences to the victims. It’s truly tragic. However, I’ve been receiving a lot of hate messages from people online saying that people were crowding over to the area where the crush happened to come to the bar that I was in, but that’s nonsense.”
“I only had to go into one of the bars to escape the large crowd outside and stayed indoors for just 30 minutes because the bartenders said it looked too dangerous outside. The rumours are getting out of hand.”
He’s not fallacious. Even the 2 celebrities who died amid the group crush in Itaewon – actor Lee Ji-han and cheerleader Kim Yu-na – are sadly being blamed by netizens for the incident as effectively.
AP and AFP report “that bereaved households and mates’ grief is blended with anger about officers’ failure to make use of crowd controls in a small nightlife district jammed with tens of hundreds of partiers”.
The report additionally acknowledged that “the nationwide agency acknowledged that Seoul police didn’t act for hours regardless of receiving no less than 11 emergency calls from pedestrians warning a few swelling crowd of Halloween revellers getting uncontrolled forward of the crush on Saturday”.
