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Park Ga-young, who would have turned 20 on Tuesday,

was among the dead in the crowd crush in Seoul.

Photograph: John Yoon

The New York Times

Young Dreams Extinguished in the Crush of a Halloween Crowd in Seoul

More than 100 of those killed in the South Korean capital were in their 20s,

planning for the next chapter of their lives.

NYT

Oct. 31, 2022    Updated 9:22 a.m. ET

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/31/
world/asia/seoul-itaewon-crowd-crush-victims.html

USA > NPR podcasts

USA > NPR podcasts > before 2024

‘I almost forgot how to date’

The Global Dating Crisis: episode 3

The Guardian    5 June 2026

‘I almost forgot how to date’

The Global Dating Crisis: episode 3

video    The Guardian    5 June 2026

In many countries, dating seems to be on the decline,

with many young people either dating less,

or finding it harder to have meaningful relationships.

YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kce0GvSHhRk

South Korea        UK / USA

https://www.theguardian.com/world/
south-korea

https://www.theguardian.com/music/
k-pop

https://www.theguardian.com/world/
seoul-crowd-crush

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Hyundai_Motor_Group

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
LG

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Samsung

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/
samsung

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
BTS

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Bong_Joon-ho

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Jang_Joon-hwan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Park_Chan-wook

2026

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/06/
starbucks-south-korea-tank-day-promotion-blunder

https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2026/jun/05/
i-almost-forgot-how-to-date-the-global-dating-crisis-
episode-3-video

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/
southkorea-environment-beekeeping/ - June 3, 2026

https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/
south-korea-says-
it-will-pursue-all-options-avoid-samsung-strike-2026-05-17/

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/mar/21/
bts-review-
having-lost-none-of-their-chemistry-
its-a-comeback-of-epic-proportions

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/mar/20/
bts-arirang-review-the-worlds-biggest-pop-band-return-
with-dumb-fun-and-downright-weirdness

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/
world/asia/korea-first-lady-kim-keon-hee-jail.html

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jan/09/
i-havent-mellowed-my-violence-park-chan-wook-on-cultural-dominance-
the-capitalist-endgame-and-why-we-cant-beat-ai

2025

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/
movies/park-chan-wook-no-other-choice-korea.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/
business/workplace-sexual-harassment-south-korea.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/
arts/baek-se-hee-dead-author.html

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/16/
south-korea-bans-travel-to-parts-of-cambodia-
amid-deepening-scam-crisis-that-has-left-80-missing

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/aug/29/
no-other-choice-review-park-chan-wook

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/31/
hot-weather-japan-south-korea-record-breaking-heat

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/24/
north-koreas-military-is-being-transformed-
on-the-battlefields-of-ukraine-
so-why-is-seoul-silent

https://www.npr.org/2025/03/26/
nx-s1-5341196/south-korea-wildfires-buddhist-temple

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/
world/asia/south-korea-actress-dead.html

2024

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/15/
south-korean-officials-seek-stability-as-joe-biden-
says-alliance-linchpin-for-peace

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/14/
south-korea-president-yoon-suk-yeol-downfall-analysis

https://www.npr.org/2024/12/07/
g-s1-37286/south-korean-president-impeachment-vote-fails

https://www.npr.org/2024/12/06/
g-s1-37117/south-korea-impeachment-yoon

https://www.npr.org/2024/12/05/
nx-s1-5215788/south-korea-martial-law

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/dec/04/
martial-law-came-to-south-korea-
and-my-friends-and-i-doomscrolled-through-the-night

https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2024/dec/04/
south-korea-
martial-law-drama-president-yoon-suk-yeol-photos-national-assembly

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/nov/04/
korean-cinema-precarious-period-netflix-director-jang-joon-hwan

https://www.npr.org/2024/10/24/
nx-s1-5163246/south-korea-weapons-ukraine-north-korea-troops-russia

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/oct/20/
k-pop-k-movies-a-nobel-prize-k-poetry-book-wise-words-korea-cultural-
lee-seong-bok

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/12/
world/asia/south-korea-dogs-pet-popularity.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/10/
arts/nobel-prize-literature.html

https://www.npr.org/2024/10/10/
nx-s1-5147254/nobel-prize-literature-han-kang

https://www.npr.org/2024/09/15/
nx-s1-5113082/as-medical-strike-drags-on-in-south-korea-
patients-are-on-edge

https://www.reuters.com/graphics/
NORTHKOREA-SOUTHKOREA/TRASH/klvynygmjpg/ - 23 August 2024

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/15/
insider/south-korea-labor.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/05/
business/south-korea-labor-workweek.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/05/
business/samsung-workers-end-strike.html

https://www.npr.org/sections/the-picture-show/2024/06/25/
g-s1-5821/north-koreans-established-abai-village-
after-the-korean-war

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/28/
world/asia/k-pop-suicide-goo-hara.html

https://www.npr.org/2024/02/11/
1229437757/social-isolation-south-korea

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2024/feb/10/
south-korean-convenience-stores-preserved-in-ink-lee-me-kyeoung

2023

https://www.npr.org/2023/12/27/
1221760871/actor-lee-sun-kyun-of-oscar-winning-film-parasite-
is-found-dead-in-seoul

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/jun/18/
death-from-overwork-young-koreans-rebel-against-culture-of-long-hours

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/02/
world/asia/korea-us-comfort-women-sexual-slavery.html

https://www.npr.org/2023/04/20/
1170989467/the-k-pop-star-moon-bin-is-found-dead-
at-his-home-at-the-age-of-25

https://www.npr.org/2023/02/18/
1150397895/return-to-seoul-review

2022

https://www.theguardian.com/world/
seoul-crowd-crush

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/dec/03/
blackpink-o2-arena-london-review-born-pink-
k-pop-juggernaut-with-world-beating-attitude

https://www.npr.org/2022/11/07/
1134772593/throughline-how-korean-culture-went-global

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/31/
world/asia/seoul-itaewon-crowd-crush-victims.html

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/29/
dozens-of-people-crushed-by-large-crowd-
at-halloween-festivities-in-south-korea

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/10/
world/asia/south-korea-floods-basement.html

2021

https://www.npr.org/2021/11/06/
1053163060/class-conflict-and-economic-hardship-in-squid-game-
is-real-for-many-south-korean

https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2021/oct/22/
the-korean-debt-crisis-that-inspired-squid-games-dark-dystopia

https://www.npr.org/2021/10/16/
1046541725/how-to-watch-squid-game

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/29/
once-a-covid-success-story-
south-korea-sweats-through-summer-of-delta-surge

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/mar/19/
the-last-children-on-an-ageing-south-korean-island-in-pictures

2020

https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/12/07/
943812120/south-koreas-health-minister-describes-seoul-
as-a-covid-19-war-zone

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2020/dec/04/
kimchi-from-field-to-lunch-in-pictures

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/oct/25/
lee-kun-hee-samsung-electronics-chairman-dies-aged-78

https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/10/19/
925341006/south-korea-eases-coronavirus-restrictions-
touts-exceptional-success

https://www.npr.org/2020/08/20/
904213121/new-coronavirus-cases-are-on-the-rise-in-south-korea

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/apr/11/
south-korea-beating-coronavirus-citizens-state-testing

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/02/
coronavirus-testing-
how-some-countries-germany-south-korea-got-ahead-of-the-rest

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/01/
opinion/covid-face-mask-shortage.html

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2020/mar/26/
south-korea-booming-drive-ins-in-pictures

2018

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/19/
parallel-lives-matching-portraits-from-south-and-north-korea-
in-pictures - Guardian picture gallery

https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2018/aug/22/
reunions-of-a-lifetime-as-south-koreans-head-north-in-pictures

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/apr/27/
korea-summit-leaders-vow-to-write-new-chapter-in-peninsulas-history

https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2018/apr/27/
north-south-leaders-meet-korea-summit-pictures

2016

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/05/17/
478332594/the-vegetarian-wins-man-booker-international-prize-for-fiction

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/feb/05/
han-kang-interview-writing-massacre

2015

https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2015/oct/09/
north-south-korea-divided-in-pictures

https://www.npr.org/blogs/parallels/2015/04/10/
398498496/a-forgotten-generation-
half-of-s-koreas-elderly-live-in-poverty

2012

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/sep/25/
gwangju-biennale-south-korea-democracy

1988

https://www.nytimes.com/1988/04/02/
world/seoul-apologizes-for-a-tragic-incident.html

May 1980

massacre of student protesters

in the South Korean city of Gwangju

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Gwangju_Uprising

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Coup_d'état_of_May_Seventeenth

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Chun_Doo-hwan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Choi_Kyu-hah

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/06/
world/asia/gwangju-massacre-human-acts-han-kang.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/05/
world/asia/photos-1980-south-korea-martial-law.html

https://www.npr.org/2024/12/05/
nx-s1-5215788/south-korea-martial-law

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/21/
world/asia/south-korea-photos-gwangju-crackdown.html

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/feb/05/
han-kang-interview-writing-massacre

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/sep/25/
gwangju-biennale-south-korea-democracy

https://www.nytimes.com/1988/04/02/
world/seoul-apologizes-for-a-tragic-incident.html

December 1980

https://www.nytimes.com/1980/12/01/
archives/
rise-of-young-officers-dims-fate-of-seoul-dissident-case-has.html

September 1980

https://www.nytimes.com/1980/09/06/
archives/175-are-indicted-in-south-korea-on-charges-in-kwangju-uprising.html

June 1980

https://www.nytimes.com/1980/06/12/
archives/
seoul-papers-fight-military-censorship-cartoons-are-being-used-to.html

May 1980

https://www.nytimes.com/1980/05/30/
archives/military-in-seoul-reported-taking-control-of-policy-general-is.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1980/05/28/
archives/when-the-troops-finally-came-kwangju-revolt-became-a-rout-inn.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1980/05/28/
archives/korean-leaders-appeal-for-unity-but-fears-of-further-unrest-persist.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1980/05/27/
archives/south-korea-troops-recapture-kwangju-in-predawn-strike-military.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1980/05/25/
archives/30000-in-south-korea-continuing-kwangju-protests-despite-warning.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1980/05/25/
archives/old-grudges-spur-a-new-revolt-in-south-korea.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1980/05/23/
archives/south-korean-army-moves-to-try-foe-report-says-kim-dae-jung-plotted.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1980/05/22/
archives/protesters-control-south-korean-city-at-least-32-killed-new-cabinet.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1980/05/21/
archives/cabinet-resigns-in-south-korea-as-riots-grow-more-deaths-reported.html

Park Chung Hee (Korean: 박정희)    1917-1979

South Korean politician and army officer

who served as the third president of South Korea from 1962

after he seized power in the May 16 coup of 1961

until his assassination in 1979.

His regime oversaw

a period of intense economic growth and transformation,

making Park one of the most consequential leaders in Korean history,

although his legacy as a military dictator remains a bitter subject.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Park_Chung_Hee

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Park_Chung_Hee

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/06/
starbucks-south-korea-tank-day-promotion-blunder

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/may/18/
ceo-starbucks-in-south-korea-fired-over-controversial-ad-campaign

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/sep/25/
gwangju-biennale-south-korea-democracy

Seoul        UK

https://www.theguardian.com/world/
seoul-crowd-crush

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/29/
dozens-of-people-crushed-by-large-crowd-
at-halloween-festivities-in-south-korea

https://www.theguardian.com/travel/gallery/2013/feb/22/
seoul-life-in-the-megacity-in-pictures

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