This is the best footage out there of the events from that night. Incredible. Don't allow this to be deleted. The world needs to observe and learn from the tragedy of that night so that it never happens again.
The Rittenhouse shooting and George Floyd’s death are still uploaded - not to mention far more graphic videos in general, so it’d be in pretty bad taste if youtube were to remove this.
Aye. I'm hoping more people could see this. While you might think most injuries and deaths in such incidents are cause by trampling, a lack of oxygen is often to blame. The crush of the crowd pushes against your chest and makes it hard to breathe. It takes 30 seconds before you lose consciousness, and around about six minutes, you're into compressive or restrictive asphyxia. That's a generally the attributed cause of death - not crushing, but suffocation,” he added. It can also cause head and neck injuries. -WebMD
Why is this video showing as "deleted video"? This is crucial, extraordinary evidence that by some miracle you happened to capture, that is going to either hold someone accountable or absolve them of liability. Please contact Seoul authorities immediately. You cannot count on them to find this on their own.
@@Odo55 No. It was the SK president who moved his offices to another part of town and took 700 police for his protection, leaving almost no police presence for crowd control.
@@vsbaretummysugastonguetech1540 So are you saying these adults weren't intelligent enough to see how crowded these areas were and just kept pushing themselves tighter and tighter together ? They needed others to tell them to stop and go a different direction ? Sorry, that's just lame and not taking personal responsibility for keeping themselves safe.
Makes me feel claustrophobic watching it. Knowing any of these people that we are looking at throughout the whole video could be the ones that passed gives me chills and makes me so sad. Rest in peace. ❤️
Watch the video at 2x speed starting from 25:30 facing west and you can see how the 'waves' of pressure is propogating through the crowd and it started getting chaotic. Then at 26:45 at the T-Junction, a girl appears to have passed out collapsing. Her friends tried to help her but the shear amount of people are pushing against them and almost stepping over her. After a while, they managed to clear a small circle around her at 27:05, giving her some space. But it didn't last long, more and more people just kept coming and squeezing into the junction.
Watch from the beginning of 23:00. There is a huge build up of people wanting to go into the "Atelier" store, the one with the grim reaper signage. This build up of people causes a huge blockage in this T-section, causing only a single file of people to be able to move out of the left road (left relative to facing the grim reaper building) to the slope. At exactly 24:15, you see the last trickle of people moving out from the left road as they get blocked by people wanting to go into the left road. From that point on, the people wanting to go INTO the left road, the people wanting OUT of the left road, and the people WAITING to get into the grim reaper bar were all blocking each other. From that point on, the flow was clogged, and the pressure started building up from all sides. Unfortunately, there was a group from the left road who started encouraging people to do a concerted push so that they can get out.
I don't know if I'm blind but around 26:50 under the Trouba Dour sign I see some parents carrying their children. The dad carrying the boy and the mom the girl. The little girl seems to be gasping for air.
I was like what people are you talking about I've been staring hard for 3 mins and don't see anyone falling or a guy in a jean jacket. Then I realize it's 360 degrees and i have to turn it lol whoops
If you watch closely you can see a few people get consumed by the crowd. A woman stumbled and all the sudden the crowd surges forward and people must be walking on her or tumbling over her. You can see her hand reach out for her friend and he notices but is downstream of the crowd surge. Him and his friends appear to be trying to stop the crowd surge to get his friend upright but that also causes more congestion. It would be a nightmare to die like this. Literally be washed out by a sea of human bodies and (mostly) dying from asphyxiation
Wow! This is my 1st time to see a youtube video that you can actually rotate. This will really help everyone analyze what went wrong. Our deepest condolences to all the families.
Thank you for posting these. I hope it helps people realize how easy it is to get caught in this situation without fully understanding what is happening. I hope it helps the businesses and security to better plan. I hope it humbles the people who say nasty things online about the people there. I wish you well and I am so sorry for all those lost and suffering.
You literally risked your life for us to witness vicariously through what you actually went through. Thank you. And i’m glad you made it out without alive. It’s still surreal seeing this footage and knowing many people didn’t make it out alive.
terrifying how the crowd kept pushing forward into that small alleyway around the end of the clip, not knowing they were suffocating the people at the bottom. it’s horrible. this could’ve all been prevented with crowd control. rest in peace to all the souls lost in this tragedy.
This should be useful to officials studying what happened. If one watches at 2x speed, one can clearly see that people were funneling into the downsloped alley from both sides. I heard that one person tripped, which created a domino effect, but this doesn’t appear to have happened during this video.
Apparently, people fell at the very top of the slope, mainly because others were pushing to go left and right on the road perpendicular to where the top of the slope begins.
Once again, youtube is telling it like it is. It wasn't just people tripping on the slope. People kept trying to push forward, even when others screamed saying people were dying. Why would you push down toward ppl coming up a slope? What is wrong with humans? Other firsthand accounts: ua-cam.com/video/2m-A52tVCSU/v-deo.html
@@evalinap.6875 They didn't know. Some people just wanted to go into the event, while others wanted to go home rushing to the last train for the night.
Aye. I'm hoping more people could see this. While you might think most injuries and deaths in such incidents are cause by trampling, a lack of oxygen is often to blame. The crush of the crowd pushes against your chest and makes it hard to breathe. It takes 30 seconds before you lose consciousness, and around about six minutes, you're into compressive or restrictive asphyxia. That's a generally the attributed cause of death - not crushing, but suffocation,” he added. It can also cause head and neck injuries. -WebMD
Thank you for posting this. In a video by Cheddar on how stampedes occur, it was indicated that there is a significant lack of research on crowd control and surge prevention. Hopefully such footage provides better insight to local governments, scientists, and law enforcement on how to avoid such tragedies in the future. My condolences go out to the families of the victims.
I think I can see the error. they allowed traffic of all these people to come in from multiple directions. I think if they would have controlled which direction people come in and out that would have been a big help.
Traffic controlling should not be only for vehicles, authorities and businesses knew they will get this amount of people on the streets, traffic controllers officer should have been in each corner
slope caught them off guard, and people from train station and tourist all goes to this intersection in the middle of rush hour. some get impatient as they're getting blocked from their direction causing some group of people to push forward with no remorse resulting in a chain effect of pushing.
This happens at crowd crushes. Often the people at the back can't see or hear what's happening ahead, and since they still have the space to move forward, motivated by whatever reason, keep pushing and cause the density of people to increase.
You cant blame their "common sense" in this situation. The crowd is too large in a super narrow specific area. I cannot describe it best but when someone enter the alley they find out that it stuck, but when try to head back another group of people do the same thing. over and over again until they try anything to get out the situation, including pusing forward.
If you look at 27:00, you can tell that after the initial surge a group a girls in the crowd fell on to the floor, almost trampled. Thank god the people around the girls were able to pick them up before any tragedy happened. You can see just how dangerous the crowd is by seeing how much they had to struggle to stand up again after falling. God bless the victims, hope authorities can investigate this incident and prevent such tragedies from ever happening again.
@@BuzzMoves365 was the actual incident in that same alley? And I’m glad you and your loved one is safe, my prayers to all the victims and their families
@@b.jellis I don't think anyone actually know what is happening tbh if you are talking about that bald white guy he is actually doing great putting his backpack in front of him it could serve as cushion for his chest if ever he fell down or pinned towards the wall. the way I see it he isn't being a jackass he looks more like confused tbh.
Thank you for sharing. I was struck by the footage of the young people patiently moving inch by inch up a packed sidewalk. People in the US where we have so much space even in urban areas don’t realize how crowded urban areas in densely populated countries like Korea and Japan and China can get. There sidewalks are always congested. So the people may not realize right away that something is seriously wrong until it is too late. It broke my heart to see how young the merrymakers were! 😢😱
Thank goodness you made it out safely! Would it have helped if the alley ways had been blocked in the beginning so that foot traffic stayed only on the main roads or would that have prevented access to some of the clubs?
Definitely, had they prevented more people coming in from the other alleys, the fatal alley would have been cleared up faster, you could see even as people struggled after the stampede, the density there increased and is likely because the other entrances were still open and others went through the alternate route
I can’t believe you got out alive. I noticed that the worst happened when you and your copilot got out. It’s so heartbreaking. I can’t stop thinking about them and praying for their families. Remembering them and mourning as well in the USA.
I didnt expect it happened in a span of a few minutes? Im shocked how unexpected the wave of people was, a few moments before there was still a lot of space to move around
So this is how everything started. The authorities should use this in their investigation. This will help a lot. I've been searching for videos like this to farther understand how everything ended in a tragic incident.
This might be one of the most useful footages of a disaster ever recorded in human history. You have no idea what this video means to humanity and to the authorities in hopefully preventing this in the future. The fact you're right in the intersection is even more insane.
I was having trouble grasping how this could have happened, and this is the best footage I've seen yet (probably the best footage out there at all). Other people are saying "they could see how crowded it was they shouldn't have gone in" but it really could have happened to any one of us here. They went in there because they didn't realize just how tight it was.
Yeah, you're very right. It's easy to judge. Most people don't assume they would have been in danger. I would haven't gone in myself. Too many people for me. It would scare me and make me feel claustrophobic, to be honest. The responsibility for safety there was the police, the authorities, not the people. Cops are paid to keep massive crowds safe, but somehow the authorities didn't think so.
Some have said they first stood on open spots on the sides but got swept into the crowd as it moved and couldn't get out. It's unreal. I'm also truly baffled by the disgusting comments under every post about this tragedy blaming the victims. I'm so appalled. May the dead rest in peace and the injured get back to health soon.
ive experienced this before when i attended a festival. the air gets too thin that you can barely shout to give instruction to people where to go. you also have no choice but to go with the flow of the crowd or else you will lose your balance and fall down. what made this particular incident so fatal is that narrow sloped alley. imagine trying to keep your balance on a sloped alley while a sea of people constantly pushing you from behind.
La verdad es que si yo veo que estoy entre tantas personas y tengo la oportunidad de entrar a un establecimiento, lo hubiera hecho sin pensarlo. He notado que hay lugares que tienen sus puertas abiertas pero nadie entra y adentro está vacío pero los jóvenes optan por seguir entre la multitud. Qué terrible tragedia. Faltó sentido común.
초반17:15에는 그래도 질서아닌 질서가 있었네요.. 중반25:15부터 앞쪽에 싸움이 났는지 사람들이 정체되면서 갑자기 크게 요동치기 시작하네요 이때부터 혼란이 시작된것 같아요 수많은 영상 중 인파 속에서 치고박고 싸우는 영상(반대편 2층에서 찍힌영상이고 앞 클럽외관도 비슷했음)을 본 기억이 있어요 분명 연관있을 듯 +)25:51부터 앞사람들이 방향을 틀면서 갑자기 많은 사람들이 경사진 골목으로 모여버리네요.. 질서가 사라진 최초 원인은 여기 있었네요 개인적으로 이거 밀어사건만큼 너무 중요한 영상인 듯합니다 7~8시쯤, 제가 저 거리에 있었을 때만 해도 나름 우측보행이 되고 있었던지라 안타까운 마음에 영상을 더 자세히 봤네요..
I'm so sorry this happened. My heart goes out to all that lost lives. God bless Itaewon and SK. I've been there 3 times. I love the country and the people. My thoughts and prayers are with everyone there.
At 4:44 thats me in the green Luigi Costume, dead centre of the alleyway. We were going the opposite direction when the screaming started and i got bowled over and pushed to the ground to the right side of that building. Truly scary stuff, i tried to get up as fast as possible and picked up two girls from the ground and my gf. And we escaped onto the road.
Another thing that added to the confusion is the blasting music. How do you expect to communicate and think over that? Some people said they thought they were told to move forward but was actually being told to move backward and some misinterpreted the scream of agony from excitement. Almost similar to that Astroworld tragedy.
Please pass this on to authorities this is legit best video of the incident online. 1. There was way too much people there. 2. When it hits just after 25mins it seems like there was a sort of ground tremor that kind of made everyone move in a wave position, it's strange cos no one is actually walking/pushing- it just looks like a wave movement and everyones body seems to have gone with that wave motion. 3. When people started chanting, there was no way in hell anyone could have known what was happening in the alley at the bottom where the bottleneck of crushed people were starting to pile up. 4. There were so many people that even if they knew what was happening at the bottom of alley, and people were to move back up it would have been too late and it could have possibly have been even more chaotic going back up the alley and possibly causing an actual stamped at top whilst people were already crushed at the bottom.
My thoughts and prayers for victims and families affected by this. Such a tradegy and it happened on my birthday and I was meant to be in Itaewon that evening :(
Those waves are probable caused by something small, like even just one person stumbling. It causes a ripple around her that spreads through the crowd as people tip over like dominoes. Then they all try to right themselves and sway together to and fro.
Basically when people start to move in very high density crowds, each individual physically doesn't have enough space around them to behave like a normal person who acts based on decisions anymore, but rather the entire crowd starts moving like a fluid, forced forward by the pressure of the people walking forwards behind them. We're talking densities of 5+ people per square meter (you can roughly equate 4 people per square meter to being in a tightly packed crowd but still being able to move 360 degrees, just brushing up on people on all 4 sides. At about 5-6 people/meter2 you start to lose that freedom of movement). The crowd starts to literally behave by the laws of fluid dynamics, and can experience shockwaves that ripple up and back through the mass of people when a push comes from any given direction... anyone who's been in a moshpit knows what I'm talking about. These crowd densities aren't dangerous in themselves until you start reaching more than 8+ people/meter2 , however starting at about 5-6 they become extremely risky to facilitate movement in for two major reasons: 1) the risk of hitting a choke point and 2) the risk of someone falling over. Source:reddit
Смотрю с первого дня трагедии, мое сердце болит, душа плачет. Ну как, как так получилось, столько людей погибли?! Я все понимаю толпа людей, один упал и падали друг на друга, сработало эффект домино. Улица узкая, не продумали организаторы, затор получился. Ужас, как пережить родителям смерть детей, отправили погулять?! Соболезную Корея!!!
keep in mind a lot of the crowd wouldve been under the influence of alcohol and confused, not to mention the lack of oxygen in a crowd like that. i believe anyone smiling or pushing could be from panic or being under the influence and not understanding the harm they could cause. The lack of crowd control is to blame. Police received emergency calls with videos sent via text around 6.20pm, this couldve been prevented if the police intervened.
What time was this? I think they said the crush occurred somewhere around 10 pm. Amazing that you went down this alley right before it got so bad. Glad you made it out of there ok!
I was there that night but me and my friends avoid the alley, it was too crowded and I remember their is a slope near the hamilton hotel. I am glad made the decision not to walk there.
I wonder why people didn't jump inside the shops which is literally on their right or left side. It would have created a huge gap and reduce the concentration of humans at one place. If I was there I would try to get in of these shops, I would either break the glass to create space or enter an already opened shop. If you watch the video, there is plenty of space on all sides (shops). The street is not a 100% locked street, its very sad people didn't use this opportunity.
With a crowd this dense, no one really has control of their own movement. The crowd begins to behave as a whole or fluid due to the weight exerted by the force of everyone else. The real issue here is lack of foresight, planning, and proper crowd control by local law enforcement. Really wish people would stop spouting their uneducated opinions and actually consider the dynamics at force with a crowd this large and dense. But I digress.
@@azucenas_ghost But isnt that caused by people pushing others and piling on top of each other though? I remember being in a situation like this and before it gets to that point, it usually begins by a couple jerks pushing others from the back which results in a domino effect of everyone else pushing/ stumbling because of the pushing and losing any space they had. Everyone ends up getting squished while people from the back keep pushing to move foot traffic along. Keep in mind before any of this began there quite a bit of room for people to control their movements and people were following the normal flow of foot traffic instead of expediting it through force. I actually fell and people literally started stepping on me or over me. I literally thought I was going to die that day. Even while screaming for people to stop, people wouldn’t stop the only thing that saved me was grabbing on to the people in front of me and pulling myself up. The worst part is that a 9 year old girl was almost trampled by her fellow peers and the teachers who were supposed to be looking after us didn’t even notice, even while I was shouting. From that day onward I have always avoided crowds and I know that whenever stuff like this happens it’s a combination of self centered jerks causing chaos and poor crowd control to prevén or control said chaos. That and expect the worst from people especially in crowds.
Looks like you passed through the narrow alley shortly before the crush happened., as people were on top of each other towards the bottom middle of the alley, and rescuers were trying to pull them out. Wow. Glad you both made it out safely!
Seems a lot of people are still confusing this as some type of event when it was not. It’s just a popular entertainment district and especially popular during Halloween no different than Las Vegas or Hollywood or even West Hollywood or downtown Pasadena. Lots of clubs, bars, and restaurants in the area from what I gather. That said, it was the local police duty to ensure proper crowd control and to set up rails to ensure foot traffic was guided properly in order to avoid this very issue. Most people have little control in a crowd such as this. You can only see so far ahead of you and the loudness of the crowd mixed with all the noise from the bars and clubs leave little room for people to properly communicate with each other. As more people spilled in from all the various directions, seems like it caused people to be pushed against this will and a crowd collapse as people started falling from the slippery street and the weight of the crowd. People further away have no idea this is happening and will just continue to move along with the crowd around them, further aggravating the weight on those stuck in a chokehold. Prayers for victims and their loved ones. May we learn to be more situationally aware and have the foresight to be wary and more cautious in this type of situations.
This has happened to me once it was a Thanksgiving after two years because of the ebola outbreak I almost died since then whenever I see lots of people around me I get scared it really traumatic. May their souls rest in peace.
Это очень страшно… Даже просто смотреть. Когда уже оказался в этой толпе, поворачиваешься во все стороны, а выхода не видно - везде замкнутое пространство и толпа… Конечно, когда видишь, что столько народа, лучше зайти в открытое заведение и переждать, пока людей станет меньше, но если уже прошёл их и повернуть назад не вариант… это страшно… И так явно видно в конце видео, что кто-то реально начал толкать встречную толпу вперёд - люди начали кричать и падать((( Соболезную всем потерявшим близких в этой трагедии, никакими разговорами это уже не исправить 😢 А нам всем пусть это будет уроком.
I believe the Pilots are the video author and they demonstrate the best body protection position in such situation with the hands raised around the chest.
Apartir del minuto 25:00 se empieza a notar que algo pasa adelante, ya se empezaban a empujar, algo y obvio "alguien" decidió por algún motivo ya no continuar de frente, porque empieza a verse una ola de gente empujando a los detrás y estos dan vuelta y van de regreso en contra corriente, eso lo vuelve un caos. Yo opine desde el principio del vídeo, cuánta imprudencia!! Yo no hubiera entrado a la multitud ni de broma!! Y pasan los minutos y recuerdo, son chicos de veinte años aproximadamente!!! Yo fui también así!!! A esa edad la mayoría no le dan miedo ciertas cosas y solo se siguen porque es divertido para ellos. Varios reían mientras otros tirados en el suelo, porque no se dieron cuenta de nada y no los hace malos e insensibles cómo he leído en otras publicaciones en los comentarios. En fin, descansen en paz y fortaleza para sus familiares.
Tbh many of them are there for the children make up and probably went in at a less crowded hours for food only to leave at the wrong time and get caught
Why didn’t more people on the sides try to get into the bars and shops? Those bars and clubs should have encouraged them to come in and not block the entrance.
I believe some were reserved bars, but yes they should have encouraged some people to come in, but there was also way too many i people i think it was inevitable. A one way system should've been implemented. Police were informed of the dangerous crowds around 6.20pm. It could've been prevented.
@@plumeria66 They could have you're right, but in my opinion the fault lies with the police who ignored the multiple calls asking for help hours in advance. The police have a duty of care and they failed.
Hola , hay un chico explicando se llama Jinseop Coreano por que pasó esto dice que es por que hay salida del metro , la calle en es forma de T y es como un cruce a pie , solo 200 policías que controlaban el tráfico no las personas y que al ser una calle de comida internacional, muchos estudiantes de intercambio fueron pero que la gente que salía del metro era mucha y los que estaban andando para volver a casa no podían ir y los que salían entonces fue lo que pasó que ni para atrás ni para adelante y como Iván disfrazados no se veía a alguien herido en verdad la música alta no se podía oír que estaban pidiendo ayuda o podían hablar entre ellos por que empezó a apretujarse todo el mundo y el que entraba en esta calle no tenía idea que iba a quedarse atrapado .
27:12 Look at that brave young man in the gray shirt who stands in front of everyone so they don't come forward and crush the girls. My sincere respects to that guy 💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿
This whole event seems poorly thought out. They are so lucky this wasn’t worse omg. This is horrific to watch it makes me feel sick and my heart race. It could be like a parade and a route people follow with many chances to exit. Or a limited amount of expensive tickets people have to buy or stay home. The public transport system is awful and the buildings over crowded could cause a floor to cave in. Money from the tickets could go towards emergency and security services provided could be a way of stopping this from happening again. All my love sent to the people of Korea
I don’t mean to sound like I think I know what I’m talking about I’m just talking about the whole situation in general I’m not talking about this specific alley way this whole city was over crowded. The public transport was too maybe they could have a day for only children? A day for adults? Just a thought to maybe brake the crowd into groups there must be some sort of way to manage these situations better. Most people just seems to be out walking around not going anywhere in particular the same as Japan just sight seeing. If the country’s knew so many people wanted to be out on these days that different clubs would be doing different things they should maybe charge people and keep a lower number of people allowed to come with security and police to enforce it. I don’t know it’s just a thought I’m just expressing myself because I feel so much and I don’t know what to do. I just hope to god that this never happens again.
@@dropbearzzz Nah u may have a point with some of ur ideas, im sorta on board. Other than that, i do hope SK does take this as a learning moment and it should help them to better prepare for future events. As dark of a reality this is, a lot of things are written in the blood of the deceased and are set to make sure no more is added.
@@veroorzaakt6387 Very true. Almost all the safety regulations we have in the US today is due to some tragedy happening that could’ve been prevented. The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, The Great Molasses Flood, The General Slocum, The Great Chicago and Coconut Grove Fires, The Titanic, etc. More recently, The Columbine Massacre, The Station Nightclub Fire, and even The Travis Scott Astroworld crowd crush, among many others, are the types of incidents that sadly occur before any change is actually made. Even so, the sheer lack of authorities is baffling; these kids didn’t deserve to die this way. RIP. I just hope their loved ones can remain strong throughout all this, once all is said and done. Just a horrific tragedy all around.
The thing is this wasnt a hosted "event" to begin with. This place is just random streets filled with bars, clubs, restaurants.... and it happened to be filled with too much people that day.
Please take this video to the police authority in Seoul, so they can figure out the cause of the crowd surge and what really triggered the massive human crush and stampede. Please do it, please!!
Este video es muy valioso. Se ven muy bien todos los puntos impotantes No quiero imaginarme que hubiera pasado si hubiera un incendio en alguno de los bares o restaurantes. Toda esa gente hubiera entrado en pánico y hubiera querido correr. Claramente se nota la falta de autoridades para controlar y organizar. Ojalá llegue justicia para todos los involucrados
Si, fue algo que con organización de la policía y de los dueños de los establecimientos se pudo evitar, no pensaron y se les salió todo de control, lamentable
There should have been some type of concrete barriers placed down the middle of the road or alley for people on the right to go one way and people on the left to go the other way
Can't help but wonder if every face that popped up in frame made it out alive.. pretty dark stuff. Deepest condolences to the fallen and their families.
26:37 front-right side of the people holding this camera a surge of people come rushing down faceward the people holding the cam then people start falling down, shouting right at the center of intersecting point of crowds. the guy with green shirt, white stripes on sleves tried to help them, signaling the people to go backward and stop pushing. that slope is a deadly factor with people getting impatient pushing causing a chain effect, it's a death pit. damage could be minimized if someone sensed the danger in these crowd and initiated crowd controlling by the sidelines could also have chain effect for the people in the sidelines to do the same.
Basically when people start to move in very high density crowds, each individual physically doesn't have enough space around them to behave like a normal person who acts based on decisions anymore, but rather the entire crowd starts moving like a fluid, forced forward by the pressure of the people walking forwards behind them. We're talking densities of 5+ people per square meter (you can roughly equate 4 people per square meter to being in a tightly packed crowd but still being able to move 360 degrees, just brushing up on people on all 4 sides. At about 5-6 people/meter2 you start to lose that freedom of movement). The crowd starts to literally behave by the laws of fluid dynamics, and can experience shockwaves that ripple up and back through the mass of people when a push comes from any given direction... anyone who's been in a moshpit knows what I'm talking about. These crowd densities aren't dangerous in themselves until you start reaching more than 8+ people/meter2 , however starting at about 5-6 they become extremely risky to facilitate movement in for two major reasons: 1) the risk of hitting a choke point and 2) the risk of someone falling over. Source:reddit And the question is where's the possibility of the choke point and why?
I do not see any police whatsoever... If they would've just been on these blocks they could've controlled the flow of traffic. I dont think the governor realizes how much Seoul has grown recently... All those apartment buildings.. those people are bound to go somewhere and all at once look what happens. This is nightmare for an introvert.
I wish there were next part of it. this is such a good evidence of what happened before the accident.. I wish this footage can be shared more and sent to those who investigating..
So weird!. It is like all of a sudden, an invisible force, pushed the crowd. I have repeated the video several times, and I don’t see people pushing. It is like a ground wave that moved everybody. All of them looked disoriented after that.
The Atelier place could have easily let a few people in up to the stairs and make it a bit easier for people to move. Instead I see them sending people away.. I know it's the job of those bodyguards but still... They should have seen what was happening and stepped in. People in the restaurants should have helped pull people out of there. People please always remember your safety comes first. Don't be in a rush to get anywhere. RIP to the victims :(
There were only a few people to turn foot in the other direction. It's so hard to wrap my head around that many people continuing to walk and push forward in the direction of the screams. Why wasn't there a chant started of "turn around" or "go back" ?
Bcos its quite common in south korea. They need to squeeze like that sometimes to quit a subway on busy time. And I think everyone was thinking same thing its most quick to go that direction than trun around. But yeah im also sad. Bcos no one shout to turn around 😔
Seriously!!! So many people near that club or watever “atlier” can go inside and i can see stairs so they can even go up for the mommet and make some space and loosen up the crowd when it started getting worse and ppl are literally screaming for their lives, but no one is doing anything not even the club people or the people walking towards the edge .everyone still wanna be part of the crowd even when they have the chance to escape. Its mind boggling to me
How did no one realize what was happening so as not to have lowered the music in the bars? How did no one suspect what was coming? It didn't occur to anyone to have told the people in the bars to turn down the music? And in that way to have been able to alert people so that they did not continue pushing. The same people who were on the terrace of that bar on the corner with the stairs, or those who were in the bars across the street, why didn't anyone think of it?
It looked like they were all passing through the alley. Why did they seem to stop at the front? That's what caused it to clog up and become so dense. Loud music blocking out screams as well as the people yelling to move back. Way too many people allowed into one area. I've never seen that level of density in a gathering. Ridiculous. Everybody has to be at the cool place with the cool crowd I guess.
Its look like people stuck on T-junction. And the tragedy always happened on T junction. Even in the car crash, or house located in Tjunction, most of it seems have many tragedy awaited.
Man that is horrible and a nightmare for me. I can barely handle going to OKC or Tulsa oklahoma, to many people. Growing up my closest neighbors were a mile away, closest town was 10 minutes away and only has 600 people who lives there. I wouldn't have even gone down any of the alley roads, just by looking at the amount of people here. This is tragic and I am sadden to hear many lost their lives and many hurt from this. 😥😢 I pray this will be a lesson for the authorities to do better with crowd control during these events.
This is the best footage out there of the events from that night. Incredible. Don't allow this to be deleted. The world needs to observe and learn from the tragedy of that night so that it never happens again.
The Rittenhouse shooting and George Floyd’s death are still uploaded - not to mention far more graphic videos in general, so it’d be in pretty bad taste if youtube were to remove this.
You should watch this from Japanese guy. This is the perfect footage I found from that night.
ua-cam.com/video/-Vac7xIadQs/v-deo.html
@@junghwank1746 대박! 고맙습니다
@@punkgrl325 UA-cam is a dictator, they delete videos for nothing actually
Aye.
I'm hoping more people could see this.
While you might think most injuries and deaths in such incidents are cause by trampling, a lack of oxygen is often to blame. The crush of the crowd pushes against your chest and makes it hard to breathe. It takes 30 seconds before you lose consciousness, and around about six minutes, you're into compressive or restrictive asphyxia. That's a generally the attributed cause of death - not crushing, but suffocation,” he added. It can also cause head and neck injuries.
-WebMD
Why is this video showing as "deleted video"? This is crucial, extraordinary evidence that by some miracle you happened to capture, that is going to either hold someone accountable or absolve them of liability. Please contact Seoul authorities immediately. You cannot count on them to find this on their own.
Totally agree!
The people that are accountable are those adults who were there
I have already sent tis footage to the Korea president already
@@Odo55 No. It was the SK president who moved his offices to another part of town and took 700 police for his protection, leaving almost no police presence for crowd control.
@@vsbaretummysugastonguetech1540 So are you saying these adults weren't intelligent enough to see how crowded these areas were and just kept pushing themselves tighter and tighter together ? They needed others to tell them to stop and go a different direction ? Sorry, that's just lame and not taking personal responsibility for keeping themselves safe.
Incredible, the last 10 minutes show how within a span of 5 minutes the situation completely became life threatening.
Makes me feel claustrophobic watching it. Knowing any of these people that we are looking at throughout the whole video could be the ones that passed gives me chills and makes me so sad. Rest in peace. ❤️
Watch the video at 2x speed starting from 25:30 facing west and you can see how the 'waves' of pressure is propogating through the crowd and it started getting chaotic. Then at 26:45 at the T-Junction, a girl appears to have passed out collapsing. Her friends tried to help her but the shear amount of people are pushing against them and almost stepping over her. After a while, they managed to clear a small circle around her at 27:05, giving her some space. But it didn't last long, more and more people just kept coming and squeezing into the junction.
Watch from the beginning of 23:00. There is a huge build up of people wanting to go into the "Atelier" store, the one with the grim reaper signage. This build up of people causes a huge blockage in this T-section, causing only a single file of people to be able to move out of the left road (left relative to facing the grim reaper building) to the slope.
At exactly 24:15, you see the last trickle of people moving out from the left road as they get blocked by people wanting to go into the left road. From that point on, the people wanting to go INTO the left road, the people wanting OUT of the left road, and the people WAITING to get into the grim reaper bar were all blocking each other.
From that point on, the flow was clogged, and the pressure started building up from all sides. Unfortunately, there was a group from the left road who started encouraging people to do a concerted push so that they can get out.
I don't know if I'm blind but around 26:50 under the Trouba Dour sign I see some parents carrying their children. The dad carrying the boy and the mom the girl. The little girl seems to be gasping for air.
I was like what people are you talking about I've been staring hard for 3 mins and don't see anyone falling or a guy in a jean jacket. Then I realize it's 360 degrees and i have to turn it lol whoops
@@allisons6910 0
@@rotonuz there were many parents with little children😔
If you watch closely you can see a few people get consumed by the crowd. A woman stumbled and all the sudden the crowd surges forward and people must be walking on her or tumbling over her. You can see her hand reach out for her friend and he notices but is downstream of the crowd surge. Him and his friends appear to be trying to stop the crowd surge to get his friend upright but that also causes more congestion. It would be a nightmare to die like this. Literally be washed out by a sea of human bodies and (mostly) dying from asphyxiation
Wow! This is my 1st time to see a youtube video that you can actually rotate. This will really help everyone analyze what went wrong. Our deepest condolences to all the families.
Thank you for posting these. I hope it helps people realize how easy it is to get caught in this situation without fully understanding what is happening. I hope it helps the businesses and security to better plan. I hope it humbles the people who say nasty things online about the people there. I wish you well and I am so sorry for all those lost and suffering.
You literally risked your life for us to witness vicariously through what you actually went through. Thank you. And i’m glad you made it out without alive. It’s still surreal seeing this footage and knowing many people didn’t make it out alive.
Wow this is amazing, you never stop videoing even though it started. Thanks for the video, so sorry for those who lost their lives
Very very tragic , so many good people harmed . Condolences to all friends and family. May society learn and crowds become more safe.
terrifying how the crowd kept pushing forward into that small alleyway around the end of the clip, not knowing they were suffocating the people at the bottom. it’s horrible. this could’ve all been prevented with crowd control.
rest in peace to all the souls lost in this tragedy.
This should be useful to officials studying what happened. If one watches at 2x speed, one can clearly see that people were funneling into the downsloped alley from both sides. I heard that one person tripped, which created a domino effect, but this doesn’t appear to have happened during this video.
마지막부분에부터 시작인거죠.
딱 절묘하게 대참사벌어지기전에
화면 끊긴듯여ㅜㅜ 사태 파악위해
보고잇는데ㅜ삼가고인들의 명복을 빕니다ㅜㅜ
Apparently, people fell at the very top of the slope, mainly because others were pushing to go left and right on the road perpendicular to where the top of the slope begins.
Once again, youtube is telling it like it is. It wasn't just people tripping on the slope. People kept trying to push forward, even when others screamed saying people were dying. Why would you push down toward ppl coming up a slope? What is wrong with humans? Other firsthand accounts: ua-cam.com/video/2m-A52tVCSU/v-deo.html
@@evalinap.6875 They didn't know. Some people just wanted to go into the event, while others wanted to go home rushing to the last train for the night.
Aye.
I'm hoping more people could see this.
While you might think most injuries and deaths in such incidents are cause by trampling, a lack of oxygen is often to blame. The crush of the crowd pushes against your chest and makes it hard to breathe. It takes 30 seconds before you lose consciousness, and around about six minutes, you're into compressive or restrictive asphyxia. That's a generally the attributed cause of death - not crushing, but suffocation,” he added. It can also cause head and neck injuries.
-WebMD
Thank you for posting this. In a video by Cheddar on how stampedes occur, it was indicated that there is a significant lack of research on crowd control and surge prevention. Hopefully such footage provides better insight to local governments, scientists, and law enforcement on how to avoid such tragedies in the future.
My condolences go out to the families of the victims.
I think I can see the error. they allowed traffic of all these people to come in from multiple directions. I think if they would have controlled which direction people come in and out that would have been a big help.
Error is the slope. And being that cramped. How I hate large crowd.
Traffic controlling should not be only for vehicles, authorities and businesses knew they will get this amount of people on the streets, traffic controllers officer should have been in each corner
slope caught them off guard, and people from train station and tourist all goes to this intersection in the middle of rush hour.
some get impatient as they're getting blocked from their direction causing some group of people to push forward with no remorse resulting in a chain effect of pushing.
I believe you are correct.
T section and both sides pouring into the downward slope. deadly setup.
Why did the people at the entrance insist on pushing forward? They could already see how jam packed it was, doesn't anyone have pure common sense?
This happens at crowd crushes. Often the people at the back can't see or hear what's happening ahead, and since they still have the space to move forward, motivated by whatever reason, keep pushing and cause the density of people to increase.
You cant blame their "common sense" in this situation. The crowd is too large in a super narrow specific area. I cannot describe it best but when someone enter the alley they find out that it stuck, but when try to head back another group of people do the same thing. over and over again until they try anything to get out the situation, including pusing forward.
If you look at 27:00, you can tell that after the initial surge a group a girls in the crowd fell on to the floor, almost trampled. Thank god the people around the girls were able to pick them up before any tragedy happened. You can see just how dangerous the crowd is by seeing how much they had to struggle to stand up again after falling. God bless the victims, hope authorities can investigate this incident and prevent such tragedies from ever happening again.
I believe the main incident was shortly after we got out.
@@BuzzMoves365 was the actual incident in that same alley? And I’m glad you and your loved one is safe, my prayers to all the victims and their families
@@PJMera13 it was this alley and up the slope around the corner near Waikiki club
@@b.jellis I don't think anyone actually know what is happening tbh if you are talking about that bald white guy he is actually doing great putting his backpack in front of him it could serve as cushion for his chest if ever he fell down or pinned towards the wall. the way I see it he isn't being a jackass he looks more like confused tbh.
@@b.jellis I wouldn’t call someone trying to escape a jackass. People were dying survival kicks in. 😒
Pls send this video to the Seoul’s police. Thank you.
Thank you for sharing. I was struck by the footage of the young people patiently moving inch by inch up a packed sidewalk. People in the US where we have so much space even in urban areas don’t realize how crowded urban areas in densely populated countries like Korea and Japan and China can get. There sidewalks are always congested. So the people may not realize right away that something is seriously wrong until it is too late. It broke my heart to see how young the merrymakers were! 😢😱
Pls send this video to the Seoul's police. Thank you.
Nope
Thank goodness you made it out safely! Would it have helped if the alley ways had been blocked in the beginning so that foot traffic stayed only on the main roads or would that have prevented access to some of the clubs?
Definitely, had they prevented more people coming in from the other alleys, the fatal alley would have been cleared up faster, you could see even as people struggled after the stampede, the density there increased and is likely because the other entrances were still open and others went through the alternate route
I can’t believe you got out alive. I noticed that the worst happened when you and your copilot got out. It’s so heartbreaking. I can’t stop thinking about them and praying for their families. Remembering them and mourning as well in the USA.
i'm glad you made it out. and am so deeply sorry to all the lives directly affected
I didnt expect it happened in a span of a few minutes? Im shocked how unexpected the wave of people was, a few moments before there was still a lot of space to move around
That's the craziest thing cos there was space to walk just moment before...it was still so normal
So this is how everything started. The authorities should use this in their investigation. This will help a lot. I've been searching for videos like this to farther understand how everything ended in a tragic incident.
This might be one of the most useful footages of a disaster ever recorded in human history. You have no idea what this video means to humanity and to the authorities in hopefully preventing this in the future. The fact you're right in the intersection is even more insane.
thank you for this video! It was terrifying to see how things started to go down hill. Glad you made it out of there safe
I was having trouble grasping how this could have happened, and this is the best footage I've seen yet (probably the best footage out there at all). Other people are saying "they could see how crowded it was they shouldn't have gone in" but it really could have happened to any one of us here. They went in there because they didn't realize just how tight it was.
Yeah, you're very right. It's easy to judge. Most people don't assume they would have been in danger. I would haven't gone in myself. Too many people for me. It would scare me and make me feel claustrophobic, to be honest. The responsibility for safety there was the police, the authorities, not the people. Cops are paid to keep massive crowds safe, but somehow the authorities didn't think so.
Some have said they first stood on open spots on the sides but got swept into the crowd as it moved and couldn't get out. It's unreal.
I'm also truly baffled by the disgusting comments under every post about this tragedy blaming the victims. I'm so appalled.
May the dead rest in peace and the injured get back to health soon.
@@FlyingAnanas-337 i cant agree more
ive experienced this before when i attended a festival. the air gets too thin that you can barely shout to give instruction to people where to go. you also have no choice but to go with the flow of the crowd or else you will lose your balance and fall down. what made this particular incident so fatal is that narrow sloped alley. imagine trying to keep your balance on a sloped alley while a sea of people constantly pushing you from behind.
La verdad es que si yo veo que estoy entre tantas personas y tengo la oportunidad de entrar a un establecimiento, lo hubiera hecho sin pensarlo. He notado que hay lugares que tienen sus puertas abiertas pero nadie entra y adentro está vacío pero los jóvenes optan por seguir entre la multitud. Qué terrible tragedia. Faltó sentido común.
Exacto pprque no se metieron a los establecimientos, o gente que estaba ahí ayudarlos a subir si veían como estaban todo a punto de colapsar😓
Exacto me da estrés solo de pensar porque no entraron a los establecimientos que estaban abiertos ,
Aunque creo por temor a que haya son muy exigentes en las reglas
Pero es valido ya en una cituacion asi
No on the left side you see an employee in all black not letting people climb up into the establishment 😞
초반17:15에는 그래도 질서아닌 질서가 있었네요..
중반25:15부터 앞쪽에 싸움이 났는지 사람들이 정체되면서 갑자기 크게 요동치기 시작하네요 이때부터 혼란이 시작된것 같아요
수많은 영상 중 인파 속에서 치고박고 싸우는 영상(반대편 2층에서 찍힌영상이고 앞 클럽외관도 비슷했음)을 본 기억이 있어요 분명 연관있을 듯
+)25:51부터 앞사람들이 방향을 틀면서 갑자기 많은 사람들이 경사진 골목으로 모여버리네요.. 질서가 사라진 최초 원인은 여기 있었네요
개인적으로 이거 밀어사건만큼 너무 중요한 영상인 듯합니다
7~8시쯤, 제가 저 거리에 있었을 때만 해도 나름 우측보행이 되고 있었던지라 안타까운 마음에 영상을 더 자세히 봤네요..
25:15 the exact moment the tragedy began. When the first screams began to be heard, and the first wandering movements of people were seen.
I'm so sorry this happened. My heart goes out to all that lost lives. God bless Itaewon and SK. I've been there 3 times. I love the country and the people. My thoughts and prayers are with everyone there.
At 4:44 thats me in the green Luigi Costume, dead centre of the alleyway. We were going the opposite direction when the screaming started and i got bowled over and pushed to the ground to the right side of that building. Truly scary stuff, i tried to get up as fast as possible and picked up two girls from the ground and my gf. And we escaped onto the road.
Thank God you got out of it alive…extremely lucky!
im so sorry you went through this
Feel sorry for you
Another thing that added to the confusion is the blasting music. How do you expect to communicate and think over that? Some people said they thought they were told to move forward but was actually being told to move backward and some misinterpreted the scream of agony from excitement. Almost similar to that Astroworld tragedy.
Wow! Between 25 - 28 minute, there was a couple girls who actually fell. Some guy helped her up, and moved her to the edge.
Please pass this on to authorities this is legit best video of the incident online.
1. There was way too much people there.
2. When it hits just after 25mins it seems like there was a sort of ground tremor that kind of made everyone move in a wave position, it's strange cos no one is actually walking/pushing- it just looks like a wave movement and everyones body seems to have gone with that wave motion.
3. When people started chanting, there was no way in hell anyone could have known what was happening in the alley at the bottom where the bottleneck of crushed people were starting to pile up.
4. There were so many people that even if they knew what was happening at the bottom of alley, and people were to move back up it would have been too late and it could have possibly have been even more chaotic going back up the alley and possibly causing an actual stamped at top whilst people were already crushed at the bottom.
My thoughts and prayers for victims and families affected by this. Such a tradegy and it happened on my birthday and I was meant to be in Itaewon that evening :(
Those waves are probable caused by something small, like even just one person stumbling. It causes a ripple around her that spreads through the crowd as people tip over like dominoes. Then they all try to right themselves and sway together to and fro.
Basically when people start to move in very high density crowds, each individual physically doesn't have enough space around them to behave like a normal person who acts based on decisions anymore, but rather the entire crowd starts moving like a fluid, forced forward by the pressure of the people walking forwards behind them. We're talking densities of 5+ people per square meter (you can roughly equate 4 people per square meter to being in a tightly packed crowd but still being able to move 360 degrees, just brushing up on people on all 4 sides. At about 5-6 people/meter2 you start to lose that freedom of movement). The crowd starts to literally behave by the laws of fluid dynamics, and can experience shockwaves that ripple up and back through the mass of people when a push comes from any given direction... anyone who's been in a moshpit knows what I'm talking about.
These crowd densities aren't dangerous in themselves until you start reaching more than 8+ people/meter2 , however starting at about 5-6 they become extremely risky to facilitate movement in for two major reasons: 1) the risk of hitting a choke point and 2) the risk of someone falling over.
Source:reddit
Watching this 360 footage is amazing but at the same time it is unfortunately sad what the outcome will be. RIP to those who lost their lives😔
Смотрю с первого дня трагедии, мое сердце болит, душа плачет. Ну как, как так получилось, столько людей погибли?! Я все понимаю толпа людей, один упал и падали друг на друга, сработало эффект домино. Улица узкая, не продумали организаторы, затор получился. Ужас, как пережить родителям смерть детей, отправили погулять?! Соболезную Корея!!!
if you cannot move forwards than all should MOVE back, i see many smiling faces and pushing forwards, as they thought some sort of a game.
This felt like Squidward game
keep in mind a lot of the crowd wouldve been under the influence of alcohol and confused, not to mention the lack of oxygen in a crowd like that. i believe anyone smiling or pushing could be from panic or being under the influence and not understanding the harm they could cause. The lack of crowd control is to blame. Police received emergency calls with videos sent via text around 6.20pm, this couldve been prevented if the police intervened.
What time was this? I think they said the crush occurred somewhere around 10 pm.
Amazing that you went down this alley right before it got so bad. Glad you made it out of there ok!
That’s when they were finally able to get to the people that fell. We saw the first ambulance around 915-930 after we were out.
@@BuzzMoves365 So you got out much earlier than the main accident?
I was there that night but me and my friends avoid the alley, it was too crowded and I remember their is a slope near the hamilton hotel. I am glad made the decision not to walk there.
I cannot breath just watching the footage😥😪
I wonder why people didn't jump inside the shops which is literally on their right or left side. It would have created a huge gap and reduce the concentration of humans at one place. If I was there I would try to get in of these shops, I would either break the glass to create space or enter an already opened shop. If you watch the video, there is plenty of space on all sides (shops). The street is not a 100% locked street, its very sad people didn't use this opportunity.
Same, I've wondered that too, some people climbed unto the red coralled restaurant when it got too cramped.
My heart broke a little more watching this but this is so important that people watch it
Every person who entered the already overcrowded area and pushed others to get further is responsible for what happened.
With a crowd this dense, no one really has control of their own movement. The crowd begins to behave as a whole or fluid due to the weight exerted by the force of everyone else. The real issue here is lack of foresight, planning, and proper crowd control by local law enforcement. Really wish people would stop spouting their uneducated opinions and actually consider the dynamics at force with a crowd this large and dense. But I digress.
@@azucenas_ghost But isnt that caused by people pushing others and piling on top of each other though?
I remember being in a situation like this and before it gets to that point, it usually begins by a couple jerks pushing others from the back which results in a domino effect of everyone else pushing/ stumbling because of the pushing and losing any space they had. Everyone ends up getting squished while people from the back keep pushing to move foot traffic along. Keep in mind before any of this began there quite a bit of room for people to control their movements and people were following the normal flow of foot traffic instead of expediting it through force.
I actually fell and people literally started stepping on me or over me. I literally thought I was going to die that day. Even while screaming for people to stop, people wouldn’t stop the only thing that saved me was grabbing on to the people in front of me and pulling myself up. The worst part is that a 9 year old girl was almost trampled by her fellow peers and the teachers who were supposed to be looking after us didn’t even notice, even while I was shouting.
From that day onward I have always avoided crowds and I know that whenever stuff like this happens it’s a combination of self centered jerks causing chaos and poor crowd control to prevén or control said chaos. That and expect the worst from people especially in crowds.
really good footage, so glad someone had actually filmed this. it really needs to be properly examined how this happened, 150+ deaths is no joke.
Looks like you passed through the narrow alley shortly before the crush happened., as people were on top of each other towards the bottom middle of the alley, and rescuers were trying to pull them out. Wow. Glad you both made it out safely!
소중한 영상 감사합니다. 이 영상이 중요한 수사 자료가 될것으로 판단됩니다. 한국 수사 당국이 꼭 이 영상을 보고 사고 원인 파악을 하는데 좋은 자료가 될 것입니다.
The best video footage ever! Something good from the vr technology fr us human! Good job man!
Seems a lot of people are still confusing this as some type of event when it was not. It’s just a popular entertainment district and especially popular during Halloween no different than Las Vegas or Hollywood or even West Hollywood or downtown Pasadena. Lots of clubs, bars, and restaurants in the area from what I gather. That said, it was the local police duty to ensure proper crowd control and to set up rails to ensure foot traffic was guided properly in order to avoid this very issue. Most people have little control in a crowd such as this. You can only see so far ahead of you and the loudness of the crowd mixed with all the noise from the bars and clubs leave little room for people to properly communicate with each other. As more people spilled in from all the various directions, seems like it caused people to be pushed against this will and a crowd collapse as people started falling from the slippery street and the weight of the crowd. People further away have no idea this is happening and will just continue to move along with the crowd around them, further aggravating the weight on those stuck in a chokehold. Prayers for victims and their loved ones. May we learn to be more situationally aware and have the foresight to be wary and more cautious in this type of situations.
This has happened to me once it was a Thanksgiving after two years because of the ebola outbreak I almost died since then whenever I see lots of people around me I get scared it really traumatic. May their souls rest in peace.
Это очень страшно… Даже просто смотреть. Когда уже оказался в этой толпе, поворачиваешься во все стороны, а выхода не видно - везде замкнутое пространство и толпа… Конечно, когда видишь, что столько народа, лучше зайти в открытое заведение и переждать, пока людей станет меньше, но если уже прошёл их и повернуть назад не вариант… это страшно… И так явно видно в конце видео, что кто-то реально начал толкать встречную толпу вперёд - люди начали кричать и падать(((
Соболезную всем потерявшим близких в этой трагедии, никакими разговорами это уже не исправить 😢 А нам всем пусть это будет уроком.
Condolences to the families and may all victims rest in peace💔🙏
I believe the Pilots are the video author and they demonstrate the best body protection position in such situation with the hands raised around the chest.
Lack of communication .Absolutely terrifying. Saddest .They should stop road traffic. Rest in peace for those people who have lose their lives.
Apartir del minuto 25:00 se empieza a notar que algo pasa adelante, ya se empezaban a empujar, algo y obvio "alguien" decidió por algún motivo ya no continuar de frente, porque empieza a verse una ola de gente empujando a los detrás y estos dan vuelta y van de regreso en contra corriente, eso lo vuelve un caos. Yo opine desde el principio del vídeo, cuánta imprudencia!! Yo no hubiera entrado a la multitud ni de broma!! Y pasan los minutos y recuerdo, son chicos de veinte años aproximadamente!!! Yo fui también así!!! A esa edad la mayoría no le dan miedo ciertas cosas y solo se siguen porque es divertido para ellos. Varios reían mientras otros tirados en el suelo, porque no se dieron cuenta de nada y no los hace malos e insensibles cómo he leído en otras publicaciones en los comentarios. En fin, descansen en paz y fortaleza para sus familiares.
This is so terrifying prayers and condolences too all families and victims
Yrguys r so LUCKY from this kind of situation. My deep condolence for the pass away ppl. From 🇹🇭
This look like hell without the hell fire.
I don't understand why some people would bring children to such a crowded event. So irresponsible!
Tbh many of them are there for the children make up and probably went in at a less crowded hours for food only to leave at the wrong time and get caught
Why didn’t more people on the sides try to get into the bars and shops? Those bars and clubs should have encouraged them to come in and not block the entrance.
I believe some were reserved bars, but yes they should have encouraged some people to come in, but there was also way too many i people i think it was inevitable. A one way system should've been implemented. Police were informed of the dangerous crowds around 6.20pm. It could've been prevented.
@@kayleighdiamonds5356 Yes, police could’ve done better. But the clubs and bars saw what was happening and didn’t even help.
@@plumeria66 They could have you're right, but in my opinion the fault lies with the police who ignored the multiple calls asking for help hours in advance. The police have a duty of care and they failed.
Россияне соболезнуют корейцам 😔. Вы очень добрые и хорошие люди.
What was in that alley that they were looking at in the first place?
To my understanding, the alley connects the subway station and the road with the clubs, so it was people going to and from the subway and that road.
Hola , hay un chico explicando se llama Jinseop Coreano por que pasó esto dice que es por que hay salida del metro , la calle en es forma de T y es como un cruce a pie , solo 200 policías que controlaban el tráfico no las personas y que al ser una calle de comida internacional, muchos estudiantes de intercambio fueron pero que la gente que salía del metro era mucha y los que estaban andando para volver a casa no podían ir y los que salían entonces fue lo que pasó que ni para atrás ni para adelante y como Iván disfrazados no se veía a alguien herido en verdad la música alta no se podía oír que estaban pidiendo ayuda o podían hablar entre ellos por que empezó a apretujarse todo el mundo y el que entraba en esta calle no tenía idea que iba a quedarse atrapado .
Este video contiene evidencia de cómo empezaron los hechos, esto lo debería de ver las autoridades de Corea del sur.
27:12 Look at that brave young man in the gray shirt who stands in front of everyone so they don't come forward and crush the girls.
My sincere respects to that guy 💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿
I hope that boy in the gray shirt survived 🤞🏿🤞🏿🤞🏿🤞🏿
This whole event seems poorly thought out. They are so lucky this wasn’t worse omg. This is horrific to watch it makes me feel sick and my heart race. It could be like a parade and a route people follow with many chances to exit. Or a limited amount of expensive tickets people have to buy or stay home. The public transport system is awful and the buildings over crowded could cause a floor to cave in. Money from the tickets could go towards emergency and security services provided could be a way of stopping this from happening again. All my love sent to the people of Korea
I don’t mean to sound like I think I know what I’m talking about I’m just talking about the whole situation in general I’m not talking about this specific alley way this whole city was over crowded. The public transport was too maybe they could have a day for only children? A day for adults? Just a thought to maybe brake the crowd into groups there must be some sort of way to manage these situations better. Most people just seems to be out walking around not going anywhere in particular the same as Japan just sight seeing. If the country’s knew so many people wanted to be out on these days that different clubs would be doing different things they should maybe charge people and keep a lower number of people allowed to come with security and police to enforce it. I don’t know it’s just a thought I’m just expressing myself because I feel so much and I don’t know what to do. I just hope to god that this never happens again.
@@dropbearzzz Nah u may have a point with some of ur ideas, im sorta on board. Other than that, i do hope SK does take this as a learning moment and it should help them to better prepare for future events. As dark of a reality this is, a lot of things are written in the blood of the deceased and are set to make sure no more is added.
@@veroorzaakt6387 Very true. Almost all the safety regulations we have in the US today is due to some tragedy happening that could’ve been prevented. The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, The Great Molasses Flood, The General Slocum, The Great Chicago and Coconut Grove Fires, The Titanic, etc. More recently, The Columbine Massacre, The Station Nightclub Fire, and even The Travis Scott Astroworld crowd crush, among many others, are the types of incidents that sadly occur before any change is actually made.
Even so, the sheer lack of authorities is baffling; these kids didn’t deserve to die this way. RIP. I just hope their loved ones can remain strong throughout all this, once all is said and done. Just a horrific tragedy all around.
The thing is this wasnt a hosted "event" to begin with. This place is just random streets filled with bars, clubs, restaurants.... and it happened to be filled with too much people that day.
Why are you going into such a crowded place yourself?
Please take this video to the police authority
in Seoul, so they can figure out the cause
of the crowd surge and what really triggered the
massive human crush and stampede. Please
do it, please!!
Este video es muy valioso. Se ven muy bien todos los puntos impotantes No quiero imaginarme que hubiera pasado si hubiera un incendio en alguno de los bares o restaurantes. Toda esa gente hubiera entrado en pánico y hubiera querido correr. Claramente se nota la falta de autoridades para controlar y organizar. Ojalá llegue justicia para todos los involucrados
Claro que faltaban dijeron que asistieron a ese lugar alrededor de 100k de personas y solo mandaron 80 y tantos oficiales
si sinceramente ojala pobres niños es terrible fuerza corea del sur
Right. I didn't think about the fires. So important to always have exits open and exit strategies.
Si, fue algo que con organización de la policía y de los dueños de los establecimientos se pudo evitar, no pensaron y se les salió todo de control, lamentable
I still can't understand why people would go anywhere near such a crowded area.
Это ужасно, приношу соболезнования семьям погибших
How did you shoot in the crowd? Awesome
“Insta360 onex2” camera on a 1 meter stick
There should have been some type of concrete barriers placed down the middle of the road or alley for people on the right to go one way and people on the left to go the other way
why didnt people let some into the buildings? like the one named atelier at the end?
나도 그것이 궁금하네요
다른 영상에선 그날 사건장소가 찍혀있었는데 클럽의 가드는 더이상 누구도 들어올수 없게 입구를 막고 있었어요 건물안 복도는 텅비었고 계단도 자리가 될수 있을텐데
26:11 밀어라 ~ 누군가 외친후 밀리고 넘어지네요
Can't help but wonder if every face that popped up in frame made it out alive.. pretty dark stuff. Deepest condolences to the fallen and their families.
26:37 front-right side of the people holding this camera a surge of people come rushing down faceward the people holding the cam then people start falling down, shouting right at the center of intersecting point of crowds.
the guy with green shirt, white stripes on sleves tried to help them, signaling the people to go backward and stop pushing.
that slope is a deadly factor with people getting impatient pushing causing a chain effect, it's a death pit.
damage could be minimized if someone sensed the danger in these crowd and initiated crowd controlling by the sidelines could also have chain effect for the people in the sidelines to do the same.
Basically when people start to move in very high density crowds, each individual physically doesn't have enough space around them to behave like a normal person who acts based on decisions anymore, but rather the entire crowd starts moving like a fluid, forced forward by the pressure of the people walking forwards behind them. We're talking densities of 5+ people per square meter (you can roughly equate 4 people per square meter to being in a tightly packed crowd but still being able to move 360 degrees, just brushing up on people on all 4 sides. At about 5-6 people/meter2 you start to lose that freedom of movement). The crowd starts to literally behave by the laws of fluid dynamics, and can experience shockwaves that ripple up and back through the mass of people when a push comes from any given direction... anyone who's been in a moshpit knows what I'm talking about.
These crowd densities aren't dangerous in themselves until you start reaching more than 8+ people/meter2 , however starting at about 5-6 they become extremely risky to facilitate movement in for two major reasons: 1) the risk of hitting a choke point and 2) the risk of someone falling over.
Source:reddit
And the question is where's the possibility of the choke point and why?
I do not see any police whatsoever...
If they would've just been on these blocks they could've controlled the flow of traffic.
I dont think the governor realizes how much Seoul has grown recently... All those apartment buildings.. those people are bound to go somewhere and all at once look what happens.
This is nightmare for an introvert.
So incredibly sad to see so many lost lives during this there needed to be more security for sure
Боже мой, это ужасно, примите соболезнования, для родных близких, из России 😭💔
I wish there were next part of it. this is such a good evidence of what happened before the accident.. I wish this footage can be shared more and sent to those who investigating..
So weird!. It is like all of a sudden, an invisible force, pushed the crowd. I have repeated the video several times, and I don’t see people pushing. It is like a ground wave that moved everybody. All of them looked disoriented after that.
The Atelier place could have easily let a few people in up to the stairs and make it a bit easier for people to move. Instead I see them sending people away.. I know it's the job of those bodyguards but still... They should have seen what was happening and stepped in. People in the restaurants should have helped pull people out of there. People please always remember your safety comes first. Don't be in a rush to get anywhere. RIP to the victims :(
Has anyone figured out what time this video was taken?
There were only a few people to turn foot in the other direction. It's so hard to wrap my head around that many people continuing to walk and push forward in the direction of the screams. Why wasn't there a chant started of "turn around" or "go back" ?
Bcos its quite common in south korea. They need to squeeze like that sometimes to quit a subway on busy time.
And I think everyone was thinking same thing its most quick to go that direction than trun around. But yeah im also sad. Bcos no one shout to turn around 😔
They did chant but some couldn’t move at that point anymore
Seriously!!! So many people near that club or watever “atlier” can go inside and i can see stairs so they can even go up for the mommet and make some space and loosen up the crowd when it started getting worse and ppl are literally screaming for their lives, but no one is doing anything not even the club people or the people walking towards the edge .everyone still wanna be part of the crowd even when they have the chance to escape. Its mind boggling to me
Same thoughts
@@JR-wp2pv yeah it was too tight, some even climbed on the edge of a restaurant.
This footage needs to be seen more
How did no one realize what was happening so as not to have lowered the music in the bars? How did no one suspect what was coming? It didn't occur to anyone to have told the people in the bars to turn down the music? And in that way to have been able to alert people so that they did not continue pushing. The same people who were on the terrace of that bar on the corner with the stairs, or those who were in the bars across the street, why didn't anyone think of it?
That's why i always avoid those type of event with too much people
Is this before or after the accident
Anyone who is in Korea really needs to send these videos to the authorities.
I would never had even entered that area seeing how many people were there.
The death ripper image or bulletin in the background is scary and not a coincidence.
Idk why people are STILL trying to push into the crowd
It's like 95% of people there were clueless what are they doing in there, they just came and wandering literally for nothing ...
It looked like they were all passing through the alley. Why did they seem to stop at the front? That's what caused it to clog up and become so dense. Loud music blocking out screams as well as the people yelling to move back. Way too many people allowed into one area. I've never seen that level of density in a gathering. Ridiculous. Everybody has to be at the cool place with the cool crowd I guess.
Its look like people stuck on T-junction. And the tragedy always happened on T junction. Even in the car crash, or house located in Tjunction, most of it seems have many tragedy awaited.
Man that is horrible and a nightmare for me. I can barely handle going to OKC or Tulsa oklahoma, to many people. Growing up my closest neighbors were a mile away, closest town was 10 minutes away and only has 600 people who lives there. I wouldn't have even gone down any of the alley roads, just by looking at the amount of people here. This is tragic and I am sadden to hear many lost their lives and many hurt from this. 😥😢 I pray this will be a lesson for the authorities to do better with crowd control during these events.