SEOUL (Reuters) - A large fireworks festival in South Korea drawing a massive crowd on Saturday has snarled traffic through its busy capital, prompted police to deploy 2,400 officers and sent the rates of some hotel rooms with a view above 10 million won ($7,400).
The popular annual event has taken on a serious public safety dimension as memory is still fresh of a Halloween night disaster two years ago that killed 159 mostly young people in a crush of crowd packed in a dense entertainment district.
