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K-Pop Concert Disaster

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16 Dead in K-Pop Concert Catastrophe; plus Five of History’s Worst Live Music Tragedies.. On Friday, 16 young people fell to their deaths when a grate they were standing on collapsed, at a K-Pop Concert in South Korea. Today, the accident has promoted one of the concert organisers, wracked with guilt, to jump off a ten-storey building and commit suicide. 16 people are dead and eight people are dealing with life-threatening injuries after a ventilation grate collapsed underneath an audience at a K-Pop concert in Seongnam, just south of Seoul. K-pop band 4Minute, one of Korea's most beloved and well-known bands, were performing as part of a band showcase when disaster hit. A video recorded by someone at the concert that was shown on the YTN television network showed the band continuing to dance in front of a crowd that appeared to be unaware of the accident. 4Minute’s record label CUBE Entertainment issued a statement saying: “We can’t express how regretful they are for what happened. Th