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There have been 26 foreign deaths as a result of this disaster.
All 14 countries, different nationalities, but young people who came because they liked Korea.
Even their families could not hide their sadness at the tragic news they had heard from a distant country.
Reporter Kim Jang-hoon will tell you.
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This morning at Nakashibetsu Airport in Hokkaido, Northern Japan.
The man rushing through the reporters’ cameras is the father of his 26-year-old daughter, Mei Tomikawa.
My daughter, who went to Korea to study Korean, lost contact after the Itaewon disaster.
The news of her daughter was instead sent as a death notice through the Foreign Ministry, and she is now on her way to Korea.
[일본 사망자 토미카와 메이 씨 아버지]
“I want to meet my daughter soon. I thought everything would be fine until the end …”
The number of confirmed overseas deaths to date is 26 in 14 countries, including 5 in Iran, 4 each in China and Russia, and 2 each in the United States and Japan.
Although they were of different nationalities, they were ordinary young people who left their hometown to attend a Korean school and work for the same reason they liked Korea.
They are now kept in various morgues.
[랜디 달러/미국 출신]
“I would like to express my condolences to those who have lost their families and acquaintances”.
Foreign media are carrying the news of the deaths of these young people with the pain of their parents.
Steven’s parents, who had an accident while coming to Korea as an exchange student, said: “I felt like I was stabbed hundreds of millions of times at once.”
Kisuke’s parents, who also visited Korea as an exchange student, said: “We lost our daughter and were completely devastated.”
After the incident, the US Embassy in Korea raised a flag to express its condolences to the victims and the Chinese Embassy in Korea also attended.
Foreigners in Seoul also visited the common incense burner and expressed their condolences with a feeling of sympathy.
[무초 악소이/튀르키예 출신]
“(The victims) were all young, they were just trying to play (sorry)”
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has required foreign victims to be treated in the same way as Koreans in support of funeral expenses, etc. And the Ministry of Justice has decided to simplify immigration screening, such as visa waiver, for the families of foreign victims.
I’m Kim Jang-hoon of MBC News.
Video coverage: Na Kyung-won / Video editing: Ahn Joon-hyuk
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