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Reuters
Reuters
Environment
By Hyun Young Yi and Hyonhee Shin

Quiet before Christmas in Seoul night-life district of deadly crowd crush

A man walks on an empty street of Itaewon near where the deadly Halloween crush that killed more than 150 in October happened, in Seoul, South Korea, December 18, 2022. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji

Usually glitzy and buzzing in the holiday season, South Korea's popular Itaewon night-life district looks like a ghost town this year, as people still mourning 158 killed in a Halloween crowd crush go elsewhere for festivities.

Many Itaewon restaurants and stores have put up Christmas trees and ornaments, but back alleys that house the district's hottest nightclubs and bars and were the centre of the Oct. 29 crush are conspicuously quiet.

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