Things They Lost: Personal Items Catalogue Seoul Stampede Horror

Police collected 1.5 tons of items from the scene and have put them on display in a gym that was briefly used to store bodies from the disaster.

Broken glasses. A grubby stuffed toy. Blood-stained running shoes.

The broken and twisted detritus of personal possessions collected from the scene of Seoul's deadly Halloween crowd surge are a poignant catalogue of young lives lost.

More than 150 people, mostly costumed partygoers in their 20s, were killed in a crush during what was supposed to be a night of post-pandemic celebration in the popular Itaewon nightlife district on Saturday.

Police collected 1.5 tons of items from the scene and have put them on display in a gym that was briefly used to store bodies from the disaster.