Itaewon crush causing people to ask for Halloween to be banned/rejected in SK, focusing on the wrong issue completely

typical to focus on something ridiculous like this rather than ask politicians uncomfortable questions about event planning, etc.

if they ban Halloween, they can just go ahead and ban any type of festivities, concerts, sports games etc bc these things can literally happen at ANY of those (and have, in the past).

Yeah Halloween isn't the issue. This could've just as easily happened during a Lunar New Year celebration

Non western people celebrating Halloween have always annoyed me, regardless of this tragedy. Kids ignore our own festivities to celebrate some dumbass shit introduced to them through US pop culture. For me it is the same as Kpop fans starting to celebrate Chuseok out of nowhere.

Sound like my country, they always find the wrong easy way out.

Like because of a drinking incident, it is now illegal to drink in public after 10:30pm

I think they are trying to shift the blame from them to others...

it's default mentality for politicians and people in power...

it's never my fault but the other side or whoever...as long as they can shift or change the narrative so it's not their responsibility

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Non western people celebrating Halloween have always annoyed me, regardless of this tragedy. Kids ignore our own festivities to celebrate some dumbass shit introduced to them through US pop culture. For me it is the same as Kpop fans starting to celebrate Chuseok out of nowhere.

THIS is very normal here in Korea and a few other Asian countries lol American holidays are like cocaine apparently the shit is soo fun we just had to have it 🤣🤡 Now people in the west randomly adopting chuseok would be fucking hilarious and baffling at the same time

Halloween is just an abstract thing

So people are more comfortable blaming sth abstract

Banning Halloween is pure xenophobia. It is an unofficial celebration. Just like Hannukah, Kwanzaa, Cinco de Mayo. Etc. are celebrated in the US and there would be cries of racism if the US banned them. SK really doesn't care about discrimination or being inclusive of diverse people. I personally think that is something that needs to change, especially with the deliberate push of Hallyu as a soft power.

withint that line they would have to cancel xmas and new year

if they want to take it further they would have to cancel any uni festival, concert, sports-related gathering etc

this isnt about a specific event or festivity, it can happen in any of them

This is just stupid. Halloween didn't kill those people, and scapegoating Halloween is just taking the focus away from the real causes of the tragedy. If they don't fix those causes, this will happen again, and they won't have some random holiday to blame it on. Also, bad things have happened on literally every holiday. So based on this faulty "ban Halloween" logic, you might as well ban every other holiday while you're at it. Oh, and your birthday. Can't celebrate that either, because a whole bunch of people have died or been killed on that date. In fact let's just not celebrate anything and only focus on the negative.

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Non western people celebrating Halloween have always annoyed me, regardless of this tragedy. Kids ignore our own festivities to celebrate some dumbass shit introduced to them through US pop culture. For me it is the same as Kpop fans starting to celebrate Chuseok out of nowhere.

How would you feel if people called Chuseok "some dumbass shit?" You don't have to like Halloween, but essentially hating it just because it's foreign is... irksome.