Pangyo Techno ValleyFestival Collapse
During an outdoor festival/concert at Pangyo Techno Valley, spectators stood on a ventilation grate/cover to get a better view of performances including 4Minute. The grate gave way and about 27 people fell into the ventilation shaft/parking-area ventilation space below.
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What happened
During an outdoor festival/concert at Pangyo Techno Valley, spectators stood on a ventilation grate/cover to get a better view of performances including 4Minute. The grate gave way and about 27 people fell into the ventilation shaft/parking-area ventilation space below.
Date: 17 October 2014. Reuters, Yonhap, and the Gyeonggi-do Safety Experience Center all place the incident on that date; the Gyeonggi-do page gives the time as 5:53 PM.
Location: Pangyo Techno Valley, Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea / Republic of Korea. More specific location wording varies by source:
Source Caution
What varies by source
Reporting is broadly aligned on the main incident, but varies on fall distance, exact site wording, and how injuries are described.
Yonhap: Pangyo Techno Valley, Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province, just southeast of Seoul.
Gyeonggi-do Safety Experience Center: “the outdoor stage of the Youth Space in Pangyo Techno Valley, Bundang-gu, Seongnam-si.”
Hankyoreh: “U Space Mall at Pangyo Tech Valley in Seongnam’s Bundang district.”
Korea Observer: “Pangyo Techno Valley Square.”
Incident Name: The user’s wording, The Pangyo Techno Valley Festival (performance by 4Minute). Common alternative names in sources and later references include Pangyo Techno Valley vent collapse, Pangyo ventilation grate collapse, and the collapse accident at the outdoor concert venue in Pangyo, Seongnam.
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Different sources report this point differently, so it should not be treated as settled without further source checking.
Al Jazeera says 16 were killed and 9 others seriously injured.
The Guardian says 16 died and 11 others were seriously injured.
Reuters, Yonhap, The Korea Times, and the official Gyeonggi-do page consistently support 11 total injured, but not all sources describe all 11 as serious.
Different sources report this point differently, so it should not be treated as settled without further source checking.
Reuters says victims fell more than 10 metres.
The Guardian says victims fell 20 metres.
ABC gives 18.7 metres, while Yonhap and other reports describe the victims as plunging four stories. The official Gyeonggi-do page says the shaft height was about 20 metres.
Different sources report this point differently, so it should not be treated as settled without further source checking.
Official Gyeonggi-do page says outdoor stage of the Youth Space in Pangyo Techno Valley, Bundang-gu, Seongnam-si.
Hankyoreh says U Space Mall at Pangyo Tech Valley in Bundang district.
Other sources use broader wording such as Pangyo Techno Valley, Pangyo Techno Valley Square, or near a shopping mall. The sources align on Pangyo Techno Valley in Seongnam/Bundang, but not on one single micro-location label.
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