CEO Jae-myung Lee lays a wreath at the Itaewon disaster memorial space [사진 제공: 연합뉴스]
The leadership of the Democratic Party of Korea visited the joint incense burner in Itaewon today to commemorate the victims and visited the accident site.
After the meeting of the Supreme Council at the National Assembly today, Representative Lee, together with floor leader Park Hong-geun and the main members, visited the joint incense burner for the victims of the Itaewon disaster and site’ the accident in turn at Noksapyeong Station Square.
CEO Lee then went to the scene of the accident and met with Yongsan Fire Chief Choi Seong-beom, hearing that “the road is full of people,” and noted, “If the police or the fire department separate the pavement from the drive and control it, people won’t go in.”
When asked about the situation at the time, CEO Lee continued, “If there are a lot of people, do you stop keeping order, or did you intend to manage it (so it’s not people and vehicles mixing),” Choi said, “From the beginning (to prevent people from going on the road) I had no plans,” he replied.
Then, CEO Lee pointed out the inadequate response, saying, “If there was a shortage of manpower, it would have been prevented by replenishing it, but because there was no plan itself, (vehicles and personnel) were left mixed up, and that’s the first problem.”
When CEO Lee asked again, “It seems to be in the basic plan, why were the road and sidewalk not separated and the number of people entering was not controlled?” I organized a group, but when I arrived around 7:05 pm, there were no mouths with 12 people.”
CEO Lee continued, “We did our best in fighting the fire, and first of all, we have to focus on handling the accident. Emphasized.
However, he criticized, “It wouldn’t have happened if we had repeated what we have done before, but I don’t understand why this time there was no access control, no separation of roads and pavements, and no one way control. ”
