[Itaewon Tragedy] Support for Missing Foreigners... Seoul City Provides 4 Foreign Language Services via 120 Dasan Call Center

On the afternoon of the 29th, crowds gathered in the Itaewon-dong area of Yongsan-gu, Seoul, for Halloween, resulting in an accident. In the early hours of the 30th, 119 paramedics dispatched to the scene are conducting rescue operations for the victims.
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[Asia Economy Reporter Lim Cheol-young] The Seoul Metropolitan Government announced that starting from 2:30 PM on the 30th, the 120 Dasan Call Center began offering services in four foreign languages to facilitate foreigners in reporting missing persons related to the Itaewon crowd crush disaster.

The supported languages include English, Japanese, Chinese, and Vietnamese. Seoul also assigned foreign language-capable personnel to the Hannam-dong Community Service Center, which operates the missing persons situation room, to assist foreigners in reporting missing persons.

Foreign language-capable personnel are also deployed at the Hannam-dong Community Service Center, where the missing persons situation room is in operation, to provide support.

Meanwhile, as of noon on the same day, the death toll was reported at 151, with 103 injured. Among the injured, 24 are in serious condition. The number of missing person reports received by Seoul City was tallied at 3,580 as of 2 PM.

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