Grief-stricken and angry South Korean parents bid final goodbyes to Halloween disaster victims


  • World
  • Thursday, 03 Nov 2022

Jung Jae-moon, 62, father of Jung Joo-hee, 30, who was one of the victims of a crowd crush that happened during Halloween festivities, leaves his daughter's grave holding her portrait, in Namyangju, South Korea, November 3, 2022. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji

SEOUL (Reuters) - "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 restrictions for the first time in three years.

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