South Korea’s leisure business has postponed a number of occasions within the wake of the tragic crowd surge that killed greater than 150 individuals in Seoul’s Itaewon district on Saturday evening. The nation is in a week-long interval of mourning.
Amongst these reported lifeless is 24-year-old actor Lee Ji-han who gained fame as a contestant on Mnet audition present, Produce 101. His company, 935 Leisure, wrote on Instagram that he has “change into a star within the sky and left us,” although it didn’t expressly consult with the occasions of Saturday evening. A consultant instructed XsportsNews, “It’s true that Lee Ji-han died in an accident in Itaewon on the twenty ninth,” based on a translation by Korean popular culture web site Soompi.
The actor was reportedly attributable to seem in upcoming MBC sequence Season of Kkokdu and had completed filming his scenes in September. His different credit embody net sequence Right this moment Was One other Nam Hyeon Day.
Total, the native business is in upheaval following the tragedy. Based on native experiences, broadcasters are skipping this week’s episodes of their leisure applications. Per the Korea JoongAng Each day, schedules are prone to stay tentative till the top of the mourning interval.
The Korea Instances says the manufacturing staff of upcoming movie Males of Plastic, starring Ma Dong-seok (aka Don Lee), postponed its press convention, whereas actors from Confession, which launched this previous weekend, canceled a visitor go to occasion.
Huge Hit Music additionally introduced that scheduled promotions for BTS star Jin’s launch of debut single “The Astronaut” have been postponed. A lyric video was attributable to drop at present and Huge Hit stated it’s going to now set a later date.
YG Leisure, which reps such artists as Blackpink, can be briefly suspending the promotion schedule and content material releases for its acts.
JoongAng Each day additional reported that the Korea Music Content material Affiliation stated it’s going to postpone its Shifting the World with Music Competition, which was set to happen in Busan on Thursday and Friday. Different occasions canceled embody the Busan One Asia Competition Okay-pop Live performance and Peakbox 22-03.
Amusement parks and department shops have additionally suspended Halloween occasions.
On Saturday evening, 154 individuals had been killed and no less than one other 103 injured after being crushed in a slim alley in Seoul nightlife district Itaewon as 1000’s visited the world for Halloween. The New York Instances experiences that greater than 100 of these killed had been of their 20s.
Actress Jamie Lee Curtis was amongst these to pay tribute to these lives misplaced:
