Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from the Economist.

From London, I'm your host, Jason Palmer.

And in New York, I'm John Fassman.

Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

Once upon a time, you bought a new car, drove it off the lot, and that was that.

Increasingly, however, cars run on constantly updated software.

It's a revolutionary change that's disrupting one of the world's biggest industries.

And Britain's national trust is an enormous landowner, giving its members access to

stately homes on green and pleasant lands.

Uncontroversial, Tweet stuff.

But lately, it has, like so many institutions, been drawn into the culture wars.

You're stuck, though.

On October 29, crowds of Halloween partygoers poured into the Itaewon neighborhood of South

Korea's capital, Seoul, foreign evening of revelry.

But despite repeated calls to police, when people concerned about dangerous levels of

overcrowding, nothing was done to stop more people coming.

It's believed around 130,000 descended on the neighborhood, in a crush and in alleyway,

more than 150 of them died.

A police investigation is looking into what went wrong and where the blame for the disaster

might lie.

But many politicians in South Korea's national assembly aren't happy with that, and today

they launched their own investigation.

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