00:00 One year after Park Young-soo lost her son to the deadly Halloween stampede,
00:05 she still can't bring herself to open the door to his room.
00:09 29-year-old Lee Nam-hoon was one of the 159 people killed in Seoul's nightlife district Itaewon,
00:16 where hundreds of thousands of people were crammed in the district's hills and narrow alleys.
00:22 Experts say the crush, one of the worst disasters in South Korean history, was avoidable.
00:29 A police probe acknowledged authorities' crowd control negligence and poor response.
00:35 It also held 23 officials accountable.
00:39 But no senior government official has resigned or been fired over the incident so far.
00:45 "I think I have the right to know what went wrong that day,
00:52 and how the government failed to respond to the disaster."
00:56 Park and others who lost loved ones that night have taken matters into their own hands.
01:04 They've been fighting for a special law that would allow an independent probe into the incident.
01:10 Park says she can't move on until she sees some kind of accountability.
01:16 "When the day finally comes,
01:23 I'll open his room and tell him to rest in peace.
01:28 I'll take out all the anger and mortification from my heart and cry out on his bed.
01:35 I'm hoping the day will come soon."
01:38 The government has rejected calls to dismiss top officials.
01:42 But it says it's worked hard to set up a monitoring system to prevent disasters in the future.
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