South Korean Floats Ideas For Crowd Limits After Deadly Halloween Crush

The South Korean government floated on Thursday crowd control ideas that involve crowd limits on subways and trains, in the wake of the deadly Halloween crush in Seoul, media said.

The measures were discussed at a meeting attended by Interior Minister Lee Sang-min, national police chief Yoon Hee-keun and other high-ranking officials, the South Korean Yonhap news agency reported.

The outlet said the plans include preventing overcrowding at subway stations and trains in cities with populations of more than 500,000, and issuing an alarm when crowd density at a subway station becomes dangerous.

A separate meeting saw the government enact a guideline on crowd controls at spontaneous events that was tabled in parliament on Wednesday.