It's Tuesday, November 1st, 2022.

I'm Albert Moller, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from

a Christian worldview.

It was supposed to be a social coming-out party on the streets of Seoul, because over the

course of the COVID-19 pandemic, this kind of celebration wasn't possible.

The occasion was Halloween, which until very recently wasn't even a part of the calendar

in the Korean culture, but nonetheless, Halloween 2022 in Seoul, Korea is not going to be remembered

for a big party, but for an absolutely tragic death toll.

As of this morning, that death toll was over 150, about another 130 or more injured, some

of them seriously injured.

The death toll was almost certain to rise, and also, you have the rise of the temperature

in that nation.

Politically, people are demanding an answer.

How could this have happened?

Where did the government fail?

But policies were not applied, who's responsible for this?

But you also have the emotional temperature of that nation, which is now running very hot,

especially given the fact that so many of these victims were so young.

So many of the casualties were teenagers and young adults.

They were not distributed evenly when it comes to gender.

That might tell us something about the distribution of gender in the crowd.

It might tell us something about the fact that young men were able to escape.

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