Crush

Released: 2023-10-17

Runtime: 44 minutes

Episode Overview

American students give emotional first-hand accounts of a crowd catastrophe on Halloween 2022. Stories of survival and heroism. 159 perished that night.

Series Overview

A spine-tingling account of what happened when a Halloween night of celebration turned into a nightmare. More than 100,000 young revelers, who were packed into the narrow bar-lined alleyways of Seoul's trendy Itaewon neighborhood, became trapped in a mass panic. The toll was astonishing: 159 people, including two American students studying abroad, had suffocated and died that night. Nearly all those who perished were in their twenties.