Emergency Karaoke - Nine teenager died!

Anjong,

today I have to discuss a serious topic. I have to think about it now for hours and it still claims on my mind!

Everybody knows the evenings you meet with your friends and you don't know exactly where to go or what to do. It doesn't matter if you are in Berlin and you have to decide which cocktail bar at the Simon-Dach-Str. you should join, or if you are in Essen and you have to decide Mupa or Delta.... or you are in Busan and you have to decide what you wanna do in Seomyeon.

Every decision could be your last one. I know, that it sounds very extreme, but last night showed me, that it really could be your last one!

After hiking James and me went to Seomyeon for dinner, afterwards we decided to go for a round of beer pong.... suddenly Dawoon and Youjung joined us... we had a really fun night! But at the same time just a few houses away there was a fire in a karaoke room establishment. 

Me and my friends had been to a similar establishment a few weeks ago.... it was located in the basement of a house. Of course many people wanted to have fun, it was saturday night... so you go out and drink and maybe if one of your friends want to go to sing.... you go and sing....

The fire started in the entrance area..... and the owner wanted to dowse the fire on his own.... but didn't manage to fight the fire.... so he had to rescue himself.... but there were still people in the rooms singing and drinking.... In the end nine teenager died. They were on vacation in Busan, because of the yacht race in Haeundae (I watched with James during the afternoon). After a while Dawoons and Youjungs family started to call them if they are okay.... and if one of us wanted to go to sing karaoke.... I still think about the crowded streets in Seomyeon, even during the time the firefighter started to fight the fire.... It seemed like everybody was still making their own decisions for their night...

I still feel sorry for the victims... Even if I know, that there is so much worse stuff in this world.... I am still thinking, that it could have been me and my friends....

So everybody, please make the right decisions and walk through your life with your eyes wide open! Even if you just check the emergency exit.... sometimes there is none....

 Here you see the firefighters and all the young people walking to another party...

I am happy, that my nothing happened to my friends!