Huge Crowd at Pikachu Parade Causes Safety Concerns

Published on January 01, 0001 by Chef Mia

This weekend, a Pikachu parade was held in Seoul, South Korea. Too many people showed up. The parade marked the first Korean to win the Pokemon World Championships. It was similar to the parade held this past summer in Japan—but minus the sea of humans. Don’t get me wrong! The event in Japan drew crowds, but nothing like this. https://kotaku.com/this-parade-of-pikachus-looks-like-a-pokemon-invasion-1619278586 The Pikachu Parade in South Korea started out okay enough. [Photo: n_adicc] But… [Photo: all4yys_beast] [Photo: chocola_26] [Photo: furymanura] [Photo: Yonhap via Insight] [Photo: Segye] [Photo: furymanura] It got so

crowded that safety concerns resulted in some of the parades being nixed. “The police were worried about the crowd and how it could have led to a possible stampede,” an event y1 games organizer told The Korea Times. “So we decided to hold parades only at 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. time, y1 com

and cancelled the 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. shows.”cnx.cmd.push(function(){cnx({"playerId":"e3616d04-4972-4839-a63a-c6975e2e9731","settings":{"advertising":{"macros":{"AD_UNIT":"/23178111854/od.kotaku.com/article","CHILD_UNIT":"article","POST_ID":"1659553227","POST_TYPE":"post","CHANNEL":"kotaku-east","SECTION":"","SUBSECTION":"","CATEGORIES":"kotaku-east","TAGS":"pokemon","NOP":"0"},"timeBeforeFirstAd":0}}}).render("cnx-player-main")}); [Photo: Segye] 韓国でピカチュウ大量発生イベントをやった結果 [2ch] Pikachu parades canceled due to safety fears[The Korea Times] y1 com Top photo: สมาชิกใหม่ รับเครดิตฟรีทันที creaturess To contact the author of this post, write

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