As South Korea mourns the deaths of more than 150 people in a Halloween party crush, many people - even those not directly involved - are dealing with trauma and a search for answers that has at times blamed the victims, a psychiatry expert says.
Thanks in part to a flood of disturbing images in the first hours of the disaster, the emotional and mental health effects of the disaster could touch all corners of society, said Ulsan University Hospital professor of psychiatry Jun Jin-yong.
Disturbing footage showing emergency rescue officials and citizens providing cardiopulmonary resuscitation to unconscious victims quickly went viral on social media even before the nature and the scale of the disaster became known. Jun said there was a natural human tendency to look for an explanation for a disaster, placing blame on people or a set of circumstances, Jun said.
"Everyone was there to enjoy a festival. No one knew that accident would happen," Kim said. "I don't understand how people can blame "
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