Music pulsed from bars and partygoers packed the narrow alleys of Seoul’s Itaewon neighborhood on Saturday night, but police lines, safety signs and barricades underscored a lingering unease three ...

As Halloween returned to Seoul on a Friday night, memories of the deadly Itaewon crowd crush lingered over the city’s party ...

The Ministry of the Interior and Safety, together with the Itaewon Disaster Bereaved Families Council and the Seoul Metropolitan Government, held a memorial ceremony marking the third anniversary of ...

On the night of the 31st, three years after the Halloween disaster that claimed 159 lives, the Hongdae area in Seoul’s Mapo-gu was bustling with a crowd of 110,000 people. In contrast, the Itaewon ...

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Our kids were having friends over on Friday evening so I decided to stop by E-Mart on the way home to pick up some chocolates and cakes, the ...

Ji-su is a 19-year-old boy who wanders the streets of Itaewon until he finds someone to pick a fight with. Once a promising boxing rookie, he is now just a troubled youth carrying pain too heavy for ...