A large-scale stampede occurred in the Itaewon area of Yongsan District, Seoul, South Korea. 156 people have died and 151 people have been injured, and 4 Chinese citizens have been killed.
According to multiple Zhejiang media reports, among the four Chinese citizens who unfortunately died in the stampede accident, two are from Ningbo, Zhejiang, one is a man and one is a woman, both in their 20s. After the incident, local relevant departments have assisted the families of the victims to go to South Korea to handle the aftermath.
People mourn the victims of the stampede accident. Xinhua News Agency reporter Wang Yiliang Photo
On November 1, An Jie (pseudonym), a college classmate of the victims of Ningbo , told reporters that the girl died was his undergraduate classmate, from Cixi, Ningbo, Zhejiang. She is a senior this year and is studying business at Shiming University in Techeon City, North Chungcheong Province, South Korea, and graduated next summer. The domestic universities they studied have cooperative education projects with many Korean universities. They studied in China in the first two years and could study in Korean universities in their junior year.
An Jie recalled that on the day of the incident, the girl who died told him that she would come to Seoul from the local area ( Chungcheongbukdo ) to play on the weekend, and planned to go to Itaewon or other places, but she had not decided yet. On the night of the accident, An Jie contacted her with other classmates, but there was no news. Until the next day, Anjie saw the official notice issued by Shiming University that she was on the list of victims. An Jie couldn't hide his sadness when talking about the girl he died. "She is a quiet and quiet girl, and she usually talks less."
Another Ningbo victim is the son of a retired and re-employed teacher in a local middle school. A student studying in the middle school told reporters, "The teacher was still in class last Friday, and he started taking leave this Monday (October 31), and has gone to South Korea. Her son is studying for a graduate degree in Seoul and was originally scheduled to return to China this year."
On November 1, a staff member of the Chinese Embassy in South Korea told reporters that the embassy in South Korea has contacted all the families of the four Chinese citizens who were unfortunately killed in the stampede accident, and the families have come to South Korea. The South Korean government has indeed assigned civil servants to assist the family in handling the funeral one-on-one.
Source | Editor of Southern Metropolis Daily丨Jiang Zhuyun
