Teenage Itaewon Crowd Crush Survivor Commits Suicide
There has to be plenty of survivor guilt for the people that survived the Itaewon crowd crush disaster especially those that lost friends like this teenager did:
![A message of mourning and a bouquet of chrysanthemum flowers are placed at the scene of the Itaewon disaster in central Seoul on Nov. 28, about a month after the crowd crush took the lives of 158 people. [NEWS1]](https://i0.wp.com/koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/data/photo/2022/12/14/e648dca2-a105-4aea-b2a0-a052016dafd8.jpg?w=640&ssl=1)
A teenage survivor of the Itaewon tragedy, who lost two friends in the crowd crush that took 158 lives on Oct. 29, died in an apparent suicide while receiving psychological treatment for trauma.
Joong Ang Ilbo
According to the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education, police found a dead high school student in a motel room in Mapo District, western Seoul at 11:40 p.m. on Monday, after half an hour of searching for the teen following a missing persons report by his mother.
The student checked in alone at around 7 p.m. Monday and committed suicide in the bathroom, according to local news reports. No suicide note was found.
You can read more at the link, but condolences to friends and family of the deceased.
May God comfort the family and friends.