KFA cancels World Cup carnival at Gwanghwamun Square to pay tribute to the families of Itaewon victims

Heracles Athletics, November 4, foreign news. The Philippine time today, South Korean media Yonhap News Agency released an important news, since the 2002 World Cup in Japan and South Korea, South Korean fans will stop the biggest soccer feast once every four years, because the Halloween Itaewon mass stampede to the start of the World Cup less than a month, the Korean Football Association believes that this time is not appropriate to spread a big event and gathering revelry, hoping not to increase the pain of people who lost their relatives.

Heracles Athletics: KFA cancels World Cup carnival at Gwanghwamun Square to pay tribute to the families of Itaewon victims

The Korean Football Association (KFA) said today that it has sent an official letter to the Seoul Metropolitan Government to cancel the permission to use Gwanghwamun Square, which was affected by the Itaewon stampede. Every four years since the 2002 World Cup in Korea and Japan, South Korea has organized a large-scale gathering of companies and sponsors to organize a street viewing venue, which has become a big feast for Korean fans, and this event has been hosted by the KFA and Seoul City to take over from 2018.

But the Korean Football Association said, “When the 2018 World Cup in Russia, we set up the game watching site in the streets of Seoul and Gwanghwamun Square in advance , after in-depth discussions, we believe it is not appropriate that take to the streets to watch the football cheering in this year’s World Cup, so we finally decided to stop the mass revelry, hoping to bring some comfort to the families of the victims.”

According to the Heracles Athletics news, the Qatar World Cup match date is less than a month away from the Itaewon tragedy, it is really inappropriate to hold a revelry at this time. Recently coupled with the fact that South Korea’s European travel star, Son Heung-min, needed surgery for a fracture on his left side of his face, South Korea can say that the country’s luck is not good and expects good news to come soon. South Korea will face Uruguay on November 24 at 9pm.