alt Hacker NewsIt seems part of your comment may be alluding to today, the anniversary of the Itaewon crowd crush.
I want to emphasize that Halloween was not commodified or appropriated to express dissent here. It was a very localized phenomenon primarily celebrated in the traditional "foreigner neighborhood" near the now mostly defunct yongsan army base.
The deaths were a failure of the government, on several levels, to control excessive crowding in alleyways. Our friends that died that day were not protesting, they were just out having fun
Rest in Piece. I was mainly talking about Shanghai, but this terrible event in Korea is always on my mind this day. In Shanghai Halloween was used for dissent, people would dress up in controversial outfits (obscene and or politically charged) this year it is banned to dress up, although maybe only in certain places. The crowds were also something of a concern. Maybe half a million people would practically flood whole neighbourhoods. It was kinda scary. Police used sharing bikes to cordon off certain areas…