Gone too soon: Lee grieving next to Joo-hee’s grave in Namyangju as (pic, below) Buddhist monks pray at a makeshift memorial for the victims of the deadly Halloween crowd surge in Seoul. — Reuters/AFP
SEOUL: “Dad, I’m going out” were the last words Jung Hae-moon heard his daughter utter, at the end of a chat they had on the telephone on Saturday as she turned down an invitation to dinner.
Hours later, 30-year-old Jung Joo-hee was among 156 people, most of them in their teens and twenties, killed in the South Korean capital while celebrating Halloween free of Covid-19 restrictions for the first time in three years.
