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those of you who would rather study with it that way. So today is Halloween and usually Halloween is one of my favorite days of the year, but unfortunately I can't say that about

this year's Halloween. As you probably know I'm Canadian but I live in Seoul

South Korea and over the weekend on Saturday night there was a

really tragic accident where over a hundred young people mostly in their late teens and early 20s, passed away.

There's a neighborhood in Seoul called Itte-Wan, and each Halloween young people go there

to show off their costumes and have some fun and go to

Halloween parties and I've even been there myself on Halloween. It's been a while I

think the last time that I visited Iteuan on Halloween was in 2015 or 2016,

but the Halloween vibe and atmosphere is always alive in Ite-Tewan on Halloween so it's a fun place to visit.

Well as you may have heard on the news over the weekend on Saturday night there was a horrible

horrible accident called crowd crush crowd crush and according to what I've heard on the news, there were over a hundred thousand people who went to that neighborhood to celebrate Halloween in Itsehuan, which is just unreal to think about. That's almost the size of my whole hometown

gathered into just one small little neighborhood and the accident occurred on a side street where there were just too many people

jam-packed together and as a result this horrible accident occurred. Now I don't

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