Comments by "HKim0072" (@HKim0072) on "Constitutional Court "Itaewon tragedy was the result of many factors" video.

  1. Naw, the local government would get blamed for not having enough security / zoning / planning. Any large gathering informal or formal is the responsibility of the city.
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  2. The biggest issue is they had police directing foot traffic in years prior. It was woefully understaffed. Halloween always had large crowds in Itaewon.
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  3.  @cynthiakent4033  Just Google prior years before the pandemic. It was always a thing and crowded From 2017: Police dispatched to Itaewon 372 times during Halloween
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  4. ​ @cynthiakent4033  - The police, in a news release, reported a spike in the number of people searching “Halloween” and “Itaewon” on the internet. - In 2020, when the Halloween crowd was smaller, the police warned in an internal document, obtained by opposition lawmakers, of possible “crush deaths.” - The warrens of bars and restaurants were also made more cramped by unpermitted construction at the Hamilton Hotel like a metal wall, further restricting the lanes around it including the alleyway, where the fatal crowd crush would occur, according to police and Seoul government officials. - South Korea runs battalions of police officers with specialized training in crowd control. On the day of the tragedy, 4,700 were deployed along the road from downtown Seoul to the president’s office, less than a mile from Itaewon, to monitor tens of thousands of protesters​ frustrated with his leadership. None were assigned to Itaewon, where an estimated 130,000 people were in attendance that night. - Days before the disaster, the Yongsan police station repeatedly asked the Seoul Metropolitan Police for such officers to be on site for Halloween, the Yongsan police chief, Lee Im-jae, told Parliament. Mr. Lee said he was told they could not be diverted from the political rallies. - On Oct. 25, the chief of the Itaewon police station, which is smaller and supervised by the Yongsan one, told higher-ups that he “desperately” needed more officers to control Halloween traffic, according to parliamentary testimony by the Seoul police chief and opposition lawmakers. - The police planned to deploy most of the 137 officers after 8 p.m., based on Halloween traffic from previous years. Before 8 p.m., only 11 officers from the Itaewon police station were on duty, according to Lee Hyungseok, an opposition lawmaker who reviewed police records.
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