Posted on 07/27/2019 10:41:04 AM PDT by BenLurkin
A balcony inside a nightclub in South Korea collapsed on Saturday, killing two people and injuring 16, including American and other athletes at the world swimming championships, officials said.
Hundreds were at the nightclub in the southern city of Gwangju when the collapse occurred next to the athletes’ village.
Two South Korean men died while 16 others were injured, police said. According to a police account, the injured include 10 foreigners, eight of them athletes who were in Gwangju to participate in the swimming championships. Among the athletes were three Americans, two New Zealanders, one Dutch, one Italian and one Brazilian, a police officer said, requesting anonymity ahead of an official announcement.
He said most had minor injuries but an American female water polo player required surgery. The other two Americans — a man and a woman — are also water polo players, the police officer said.
Police said they detained one of the nightclub’s co-owners and summoned three other club officials to investigate whether the collapsed balcony was an unauthorized structure
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Hmm , another Balcony
Having been to South Korea myself, I have no idea why you would frequent a night club there. The ones I saw in Seoul looked real sketchy to me.
I noticed long ago, it is probably not a good practice to Boogie on a balcony with a whole bunch of other people.
The scariest thing I experienced at a Seoul nightclub was all these dudes from Samsung dancing together. They weren’t gay, it was just acceptable there, like all the Korean teenage schoolgirls and young office girls holding hands while walking side by side along the sidewalk. Also rotating glasses around the table to take a swig of someone else’s backwash. Some cultural differences are best left overseas.
This happened recently in Berkeley and killed a whole bunch of college students from Ireland
It was terribly tragic
Never play water polo on a balcony.
Yep, I’ll pass...
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