Episode 3: Itaewon Halloween Crowd Crush

Dark Korea — Korean True Crime & Mysteries · Jul 12, 2026 · 10m

It was supposed to be the happiest night in three years. The first Halloween without masks, without distancing rules, without a pandemic hanging over everyone's shoulders. Around a hundred thousand young people poured into one small neighborhood in Seoul to celebrate. And then, in a single narrow alley barely wider than a hallway, the crowd stopped being a crowd and became something else — a solid, crushing wall of bodies that people simply could not escape. In just a few minutes, 159 people died standing up, many of them still on their feet, unable to breathe. There was no fire. No attacker…