'Children who lost their parents are orphans, but there's no word for parents who lost their children,' says a father whose only child died in the deadly crush on the night of Halloween in South Korea.
SEOUL, South Korea – Taking time off work, South Korean bus driver Cho Gi-Dong has visited a crypt where the remains of his 24-year-old daughter are kept almost every day since she perished in a deadly crush on the night of Halloween a month ago.
“Children who lost their parents are orphans, but there’s no word for parents who lost their children. I have found one – a sinner. I felt so guilty for losing her,” he said, holding back his tears as he gripped a wallet he had gifted Ye-jin when she went to college five years ago. Most of the dead from that nightmarish night had been in their twenties and thirties. Many of the dead were suffocated in the crush. Nearly 200 others escaped with injuries.
Police faced stringent public criticism and scrutiny over its responses to those calls, and an investigation is underway into authorities’ overall handling of the disaster. Cho said he has not received any offer of help from the government except for guidance on how he can be reimbursed for funeral costs and receive what is termed “consolation money”.
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