One year since the Itaewon accident... ”No one wanted to die that day” = South Korea

``It was really a step difference.'' On the night of October 29 last year, Kim Cho-ron (33) was at the Hamilton Hotel, where the accident occurred in Itaewon, Yongsan-gu, Seoul, South Korea.
I was in the alley. It was Halloween, and I was planning on wearing costumes with my friends and having fun like always. However, the more time passed, the more I felt that something was wrong. no one is in control
The alley was crowded with people, and it was hard to breathe among them. There were moments when my feet couldn't touch the ground. Pushed by the crowd, I barely made it out thanks to a nearby pub opening its doors.
I was able to get it out. When the police and paramedics arrived and shouted, ``Go home immediately,'' they had no idea that 159 people would be crushed to death. It's just that there's a big fire somewhere.
Did you wake up?" I thought. Kim, a survivor of the Hamilton Hotel alley and an eyewitness to the scene, has published a book titled ``I Accident.''
Are you a survivor? (제가 참사 생존자인가요)'' In an interview with E-Daily and a press conference held in Mapo-gu, Seoul on the 19th, Kim said, ``That day, I wanted to die.''
He repeatedly mentioned the ``guilt'' of the survivors, saying, ``There was no one there.'' The fact that I was able to escape from the scene despite hearing cries of ``I want you to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR)'' will later become a traumatic experience for me.
became a burden. Kim confessed, ``I could have died in their place, but I felt like I brought a part of their lives with me.'' ``I wanted to apologize to the victims,'' Kim said.
Kim went to Itaewon again this year before Halloween. It may not be a place he wants to go to again, but he said, ``I didn't want to ignore it.'' She said, ``If I try not to look at it, I'll do it.''
``I believe that if we think about what to do in the future, we will be able to overcome this problem.''