It was the nightmare every parent and night-time reveller dreaded: the crowd crush in which more than 150 people died while celebrating Halloween in Itaewon, a popular nightlife district in South Korea.
An estimated 100,000 had converged on the area on a Saturday night to party. Police later admitted that flaws in crowd control contributed to the deadly surge. Two-thirds of the victims were in their 20s.
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Woo Jun Jie is a senior research fellow at the Institute of Policy Studies, National University of Singapore.
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