'My Little Old Boy' soccer player Lee Seung-woo visited an Itaewon club with fellow soccer player Song Beom-geun and danced ...

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As a kid who spent summers in Seoul, I was fascinated by Itaewon. I loved scouring the neighborhood’s humble stalls for clothes, and watching my mom test her bargaining skills. (Haggling is expected ...

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The crowd was half mourners, half journalists, standing over a rectangular pile of white flowers, notes, and sundry tributes to the too-young dead: cup ramen, cigarettes, soju bottles. The victims ...

SEOUL, Oct 30 (Reuters) - With "Hooker Hill" and snaking alleyways of bars with signs like "BADASS" around the local landmark Hamilton Hotel, Seoul's Itaewon, opens new tab district was a symbol of ...

One word tore Joung-Joo Choi’s world apart. He had first heard about crowd trouble in Seoul’s nightlife district of Itaewon on evening news bulletins, but it was a call from his wife that made panic ...

SEOUL, South Korea — Itaewon, the neighborhood where at least 151 people were killed in a Halloween crowd surge, is Seoul’s most cosmopolitan district, a place where kebab stands and BBQ joints are as ...