Seoul’s Itaewon Nightlife District Was Built for Tragedy

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Seoul’s Itaewon Nightlife District Was Built for Tragedy
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A decade of unchecked development crowded the already narrow alleys where more than 150 people were killed on Halloween weekend

, taking 17,000 soldiers with it. Real-estate developers began muscling in, pricing out small businesses and putting up glitzy commercial buildings that rented for exorbitant amounts while the narrow, back-alley footprint of the streets remained the same.

Partygoers putting on Halloween makeup in Itaewon, in 2018. The neighborhood has been the country’s main Halloween destination for less than a decade, and it’s only grown in popularity.Against this backdrop, the annual Halloween celebration, which began less than a decade ago, has morphed into the biggest in the country without any formal organization or coordinating body, and cementing Itaewon’s status as South Korea’s place to see and to be seen.

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