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Episode 10: I'd still go to Itaewon that day — an ode to staying alive and remembering

If you suffer from a condition that traps you in the past, forgetting is no longer an option.

2026.7.1

Episode 9: Four years later, October is still the cruelest month

As fall approaches, the specter of a tragedy and its possible reoccurrence lingers while the need for remorse, accountability, and social healing remains crucial.

2026.7.1

Episode 8: Minesweeping through triggers, healing through help and confrontation

Hidden triggers, from abandoned shoes to the Jeju Air crash, continued to reopen my trauma. But treatment helped me endure.

2026.6.24

Episode 7: Running, giving, surviving: How I fought PTSD one day at a time

Identifying the illness was only the first step; treatment was the next, much harder one, sending on a winding road as I tried different activities in search of stillness and catharsis.

2026.6.24

Episode 5: Small gestures that help and words to avoid for those living alongside PTSD

After the illness entered my life, it was my psychiatrist who held me together inside the consultation room. Outside the clinic, it was the handful of people who knew about my illness — my partner and close friends — who kept me going.

2026.6.17

Episode 4: Working through the emotional aftermath as a survivor

For a long time, I wondered why I reacted so strongly to things that seemed minor. It was only through treatment and time that I realized it was not a matter of willpower; it was a consequence of physical changes in the brain.

2026.6.17

Episode 3: The importance of engaging in your own treatment

Psychiatric treatment ultimately depends on one’s own agency. The same can be said of other forms of treatment, but mental health care tends to be more effective the more actively the patient engages with it.

2026.6.11

Members of a special investigation committee on the 2022 Itaewon disaster enter the Seoul Western District Prosecutors’ Office to submit a complaint against the head of the Yongsan ward office, Park Hee-young, on May 8. [YONHAP]

Itaewon disaster committee files complaint against Yongsan ward chief, subway station chief

A special investigation committee on the 2022 Itaewon crowd crush decided Friday to file a complaint against the head of the Yongsan ward office for allegedly giving instructions that prevented officials from immediately responding to the tragedy.

2026.5.8

Wee Eun-jin, the standing commissioner of the National Commission for the Investigation of the October 29 Itaewon Disaster, center, speaks to reporters in front of the Seoul Detention Center in Uiwang, Gyeonggi, on March 10. [YONHAP]

Ex-President Yoon refuses to attend hearing on 2022 Itaewon disaster

Former President Yoon Suk Yeol on Tuesday refused to meet with representatives of a special investigation committee on the 2022 crowd crush who visited the Seoul Detention Center to persuade him to attend a hearing.

2026.3.10

The father of Norwegian victim Stine Evensen, second from right, speaks during a press conference in central Seoul with families of foreign victims of the Itaewon disaster, which claimed 159 lives on Oct. 29, 2022. [YONHAP]

For bereaved families, painful questions remain three years after deadly Itaewon crowd crush

Three years on, the pain from the deadly crowd crush in Itaewon, central Seoul, still runs deep — particularly among those who lost their beloved family members in the tragedy.

2025.10.28

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Itaewon disaster

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Episode 10: I'd still go to Itaewon that day — an ode to staying alive and remembering

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