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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

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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

Relatives of victims who perished in the Itaewon crowd crush of Oct. 29, 2022, begin to cry in the National Assembly in Yeouido, western Seoul, after the legislature passed a bill mandating a new investigation into the disaster on Thursday afternoon. [NEWS1]

Tears flow as National Assembly passes bill to investigate Itaewon disaster

The bill, which was passed with support from 256 lawmakers out of 259 present at a plenary session of the legislature, establishes a bipartisan committee to uncover the causes of the crowd crush in Seoul’s Itaewon nightlife area on Oct. 29, 2022.

2024.5.2

Families of the victims of the Itaewon disaster of Oct. 29, 2022, protest the Cabinet’s motion to send back to the National Assembly a special bill calling to reopen an investigation into the tragedy in front of the Seoul government complex in Jongno District, central Seoul, on Tuesday. President Yoon Suk Yeol later Tuesday vetoed the bill, which was railroaded by the Democratic Party in the National Assembly earlier this month. [YONHAP]

President Yoon vetoes bill to form special committee to probe 2022 Itaewon disaster

President Yoon Suk Yeol vetoed on Tuesday a bill to form a special committee to further investigate the deadly Itaewon disaster of 2022, passed earlier this month by the liberal Democratic Party (DP)-controlled National Assembly.

2024.1.30

The families of the victims of the 2022 Itaewon disaster, holding portraits of their loved ones, silently march down Sejong-daero in central Seoul on Wednesday, calling for the swift enactment of the Itaewon Disaster Special Act and the establishment of an independent investigation body to probe the incident. They later headed toward the presidential office in Yongsan District, central Seoul. [NEWS1]

Families of Itaewon disaster victims demand enactment of special act

The families of the victims of the 2022 Itaewon tragedy held a silent memorial march in central Seoul on Wednesday, calling for the swift enactment of the Itaewon Disaster Special Act.

2024.1.17

Lawmakers of the conservative People Power Party (PPP) exit the chamber ahead of the majority Democratic Party’s vote on the Itaewon Disaster Special Act in a plenary session at the National Assembly in Yeouido, western Seoul, on Tuesday. [YONHAP]

DP passes bill to investigate Itaewon disaster despite PPP boycott

The National Assembly, controlled by the Democratic Party, passed on Tuesday a bill aiming to form a special committee to investigate the truth behind the deadly Itaewon disaster in 2022, despite a boycott by the People Power Party.

2024.1.9