Usually glitzy and buzzing in the holiday season, South Korea’s popular Itaewon night-life district looks like a ghost town this year, as people still mourning 158 killed in a Halloween crowd crush go elsewhere for festivities. READ:
“Itaewon used to be a place for Christmas parties, with lots of decorations on the street, but it has become very silent and sombre,” local resident Lee Jun-hee told Reuters from the alleys.
“Now we have very few customers coming, and the streets are silent,” he said, asking not to be named. “It’s not Christmas yet, but I guess Christmas won’t be so different.”
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