Two US college students among more than 150 killed in Halloween stampede in South Korea
FOX NewsMAR 27 2023
The government says it couldn't have predicted a deadly surge from overcrowding, but it clearly had the manpower and experience to do more. Beyond deploying more police, the police could've also restricted cars from large pedestrian areas, enforced one-way walking lanes, blocked entries to narrow pathways, and closed Itaewon’s subway station to prevent overcrowding.
President Yoon Suk Yeol has publicly taken responsibility for the tragedy that affected not only his own citizens but those from around the world. While safety measures should have been in place prior to Halloween, we should acknowledge his significant pledge to not only implement crowd control protocols in the future but to give individualized support to each family of the 26 foreign nationals who died.