Halloween Itaewon crush accident in Korea on Oct. 29, 2022

 On Saturday, October 29, 2022, a tragic incident occurred in a narrow alley near Hamilton Hotel in Itaewon-dong, Yongsan-gu, Seoul, South Korea, as a large crowd gathered to enjoy a Halloween festival. Around 10 p.m. on the day of the accident, a bottleneck situation occurred in a 18.24m² (5.5 pyeong) space in the middle of the alley on the western side of Hamilton Hotel. People became entangled with each other while trying to navigate through the increasingly crowded area. They had to maintain uncomfortable positions while waiting for emergency rescue. Meanwhile, at the northwest intersection near Hamilton Hotel, a massive influx of people occurred within 20 minutes, rapidly exacerbating the situation in the middle section of the western alley. The crowd from the initial stage of the accident accumulated towards the front, and as people in the back pushed forward three times, causing a cascading effect, the disaster at the front worsened. To make matters worse, it was not a situation