Posters, flowers commemorating the dead instead of seasonal decorations: Itaewon mourns dead a year after Halloween crush

SEOUL — A year after 159 Halloween revellers were killed in a clog maul in South Korea, the resources’s night-life district of Itaewon was quiet on Saturday (Oct 28), the enfranchisement’s usual revelries reconditioned by mourning for those established away.

In the days in days gone by Halloween, seasonal decors oftentimes embellish the streets that domicile the district’s hottest bars and also bars, yet this year posters and also blossoms celebrating the dead took their enfranchisement, and also young individuals was pleased in other places.

Lee Sung-min, who possesses remained and also kneaded in the Seoul district for years, said he did not even come to be aware it was the Halloween weekend break until early Saturday.