The cause of the Itaewon stampede is still under investigation

Before the Itaewon stampede, more than four meters of the alley was crowded, but some people said that the chaos was exacerbated by drugs.

South Korean eyewitness: “People who took drugs were walking on the road, quarreling with ordinary people and getting hurt. There were many people in the police station, because of the relationship of taking drugs, high heels stepped on other people’s thighs, such accidents often happen.”

Trample accident after the outbreak, witnesses say they’re pear Thai courtyard surrounding, often see people suspected of having trouble because of drugs, on Halloween, South Korea Internet also goes not to eat the way hair candy, and they were afraid to doping drugs, in fact the pear Thai courtyard is the south Korean government’s scouring drug stronghold, many club drug compounds are hidden crisis.

Yonhap TV reporter: “It was faster than I expected. I found traces of drugs. I heard that they were mostly in the toilet.
Yonhap reporters visited the popular nightclub, found in the toilet suspected drug clip bag, indirect evidence here to obtain drugs is not difficult.

Yonhap TV REPORTER: “Before I actually entered a nightclub, an employee approached me and told me not to bring cold medicine. I don’t know what cold medicine means, but it seems to be a code word for drugs.”

In Itaewon, in particular, there are many foreigners living in South Korea who go to the carnival places, and the businessmen directly forbid people to bring drugs into the house with the code, which also shows how many people have illegal substances.
Nightclub customer: “There are a lot of foreigners in Itaewon, giving fentanyl to South Koreans, because foreigners can buy fentanyl, not only here (with drugs), but also at XXXX(the name of the nightclub) in Sinsa, where it used to be XXXX(the name of the nightclub).”

Even fentanyl, known as a super drug, was found in Itaewon nightclub.
South Korean CRIMINAL OFFICER: “Young people often go to nightclubs, so they are naturally acquainted with friends who take drugs with them or criminals who circulate drugs, so there are a lot of people who come into contact with drugs there.”
The spread of the coronavirus caused by nightclub groups turned Itaewon into a public enemy for a while. After trying to unblock the carnival, stampedes and drug problems have cast a shadow over the area.