{"id":667979,"date":"2026-10-28T17:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T17:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/667979\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T17:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T17:00:11","slug":"itaewon-disaster-footage-row-in-call-of-duty-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/667979\/","title":{"rendered":"Itaewon disaster footage row in Call of Duty game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text-primary article-summary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">SEOUL \u2013 Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 4, a best-selling first-person shooter video game, is receiving backlash for allegedly using footage from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/asia\/east-asia\/seoul-crush-hits-itaewon-nightlife-district-on-verge-of-renewal?ref=inline-article\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"gap-x-04 items-center inline text-primary-60 select-auto\" aria-label=\"link\" target=\"_blank\" data-testid=\"custom-link\">2022 Itaewon crowd crush<\/a> in a cinematic sequence, prompting bereaved families and a civic coalition to demand its removal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The controversial clip, which lasts about three seconds, shows paramedics performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation on a person who has collapsed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The Families of the Itaewon Disaster and the Citizens\u2019 Countermeasures Meeting for the Itaewon Disaster said using footage of the tragedy in an entertainment game was inappropriate. They said people who witnessed the disaster or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/multimedia\/photos\/in-pictures-halloween-horror-as-death-toll-from-south-korea-stampede-rises-to-151-including-19-foreigners?ref=inline-article\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"gap-x-04 items-center inline text-primary-60 select-auto\" aria-label=\"link\" target=\"_blank\" data-testid=\"custom-link\">took part in rescue efforts<\/a> continue to suffer from trauma, and that hateful online comments belittling the victims have added to their pain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The game\u2019s publisher, Activision, told the local media that it had no intention to reference or trivialise the disaster in any way. It argued that the sequence was meant to convey the game\u2019s fictional story, which involves a North Korean invasion of South Korea and fighting in Seoul.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The Itaewon crowd crush during Halloween festivities on Oct 29, 2022 killed more than 150 people. THE KOREA HERALD\/ASIA NEWS NETWORK<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEOUL \u2013 Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 4, a best-selling first-person shooter video game, is receiving backlash for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":667980,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[61,60,80],"class_list":["post-667979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=667979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/667980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}