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It is very regrettable that many people did not prepare in advance for the danger of crowding, and that they could not respond more quickly on the day of the accident.

As we investigated, there were no rescue manuals for accidents where people gathered at once, and the government's management guidelines were poor.



Reporter Min-Jeong Kim reported.



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The rescue team that arrived after the accident was reported and tried to take out the person lying underneath is in accordance with the standard lifesaving operation manual that rescues the critical person first.



However, rescue was difficult due to the weight of people stacked on top of each other, and only a sad time passed without help.



[Firefighters: They knew there would be some gaps (I pulled them) and they said that the load was much larger than expected.]



There is a specific rescue manual prepared by the authorities for various disaster situations such as building collapse, large fire, and large traffic accident. , There is no separate rescue manual for this kind of outdoor crushing accident.



After the crushing accident at a concert hall in Sangju, in which 11 people lost their lives in 2005, the government made some manuals to prepare for a situation in which many people gather outdoors, but it was tinkering.



The performance hall safety management manual created by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism prepared only guidelines for the situation inside the venue, and the local festival management manual of the Ministry of Public Administration and Security did not take into account cases where there was no organizer like this Halloween festival.



[Park Jae-seong/Professor of Fire and Disaster Prevention Department, Soongsil Cyber ​​University: Because safety management and control at the event site and safety management and control on the street are very different from the nature of risk and the necessary elements for safety management…

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In addition to Halloween, there are frequent situations in which people gather in downtown Seoul, such as bell-ringing events and Christmas.



[Kim Tae-gu / Professor, Department of Health and Safety Engineering, Inje University: There are facilities (places) where we gather a lot.

The fact that the same accident repeats itself means that there is a fundamental countermeasure, and no follow-up measures are taken.]



With this disaster as an opportunity, it seems urgent to supplement the system to closely protect the daily life of citizens.



(Video editing: Eunjin Choi)