The period of mourning decreed by the government following the tragedy in the Itaewon district, which on 29 October caused the death of 156 people, crushed in a crowd movement, ended on the evening of Saturday 5 November with a candlelight walk through the heart of Seoul.
According to the online newspaper OhmyNews, some 60,000 people gathered to pay their last respects to the victims, but also “to demand both clarification of the causes of the disaster, sanctions against those responsible and measures to improve the system [de sécurité]”. The demonstrators also demanded the resignation of the President of the Republic, Yoon Suk-yeol.
According to a survey conducted by the online newspaper News Tomato, 73.1% of respondents said that the government and local communities were responsible for the Itaewon accident, and 56.8% that the Minister of Interior and Security should resign. This opinion seems to be taken seriously by the various media outlets, regardless of their degree of affinity with the current Conservative government.
The flaws in the system denounced from all sides
Thus, the editorial of the conservative title Dong-a Ilbo écrit : “The shock, the sadness and the feeling of helplessness are struggling to dissipate. It is not only because of the heavy toll