SEOUL, Oct 29 — A few seconds of real-life tragedy have landed Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 in controversy, after players discovered footage from South Korea’s deadly 2022 Itaewon crowd crush embedded in a cinematic sequence depicting a fictional North Korean invasion.
The footage, showing a rescuer performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) on a victim of the disaster, has sparked outrage among bereaved families and civic groups, who are demanding that publisher Activision remove it from the blockbuster first-person shooter.
The controversy comes as South Korea marks the fourth anniversary today of the October 29, 2022, disaster, which claimed 159 lives during Halloween festivities in Seoul’s Itaewon nightlife district.
