Seoul crush victim's parents to borrow B400,000 to bring body home
published : 1 Nov 2022 at 09:04
writer: Gary Boyle
ORIGINAL SOURCE/WRITER: Soonthorn Kongwarakhom
The father and mother of the Thai student who lost her life in a horrifying crowd crush during Halloween celebrations in Seoul are desperate to bring her body home.
Sakhon and Nha Makaew said on Monday they would borrow 400,000 baht from relatives to pay to fly the body of their only daughter, Natthicha, 27, from South Korea to her home in Lom Sak district of Petchabun.
The Thai embassy in South Korea said that the process would take about four days.
Natthicha, an only child, taught the Korean language to Thai students after graduating from Mahasarakham University.
After the Covid-19 outbreak shut down her tutorial classes, she enrolled in a six-month advanced Korean course at Sogang University in Seoul.
Natthicha was among 26 foreigners who died in the stampede as people packed the Korean capital's Itaewon district to celebrate Halloween.
South Korea is in a five-day period of national mourning to pay respects to the 154 people who died in the tragic event.
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Vocabulary
- borrow: to take and use something that belongs to somebody else, and return it to them at a later time - ยืม
- crush: a crowd of people pressed close together in a small space - ฝูงชนที่แน่นขนัด
- embassy: a group of officials who represent their government in a foreign country - สถานทูต
- enroll (verb): to put someone onto the official list of members of a course or college - ลงทะเบียน
- mourning: the process or ceremony of expressing great sadness because someone has died - ไว้อาลัย
- relative: a member of your family - ญาติพี่น้อง
- stampede (noun): (of a large group of people or animals) to run in an uncontrolled way because they are frightened or excited - ความแตกตื่นโกลาหล, ความระส่ำระสาย, ความอลหม่าน
- tragic: causing or involving great sadness, because someone suffers or dies - น่าสลดใจ
