According to the Kyunghyang Shinmun, members of the Yongsan branch of the Korean Government Employees' Union's Seoul regional office visited the disaster scene on the 27th, two days before the fourth anniversary, to honor the victims. They conveyed their feelings with the phrase “We remember, we stand with you.” Because the report consists mainly of photographs, the program of the memorial and the number of attendees were not confirmed.

The commission's interim report

The same day, the special investigative commission on the Itaewon disaster held a public interim report session at the Korea Press Center in Seoul. According to advance reports, the session was to cover the police security and traffic response on the night of the disaster, the early response of the Yongsan district disaster safety headquarters including matters related to falsified official documents, and the disaster response manual and the disaster safety communications network.

The Kyunghyang Shinmun said the commission found indications that a command vacuum and evasion of responsibility on the part of the presidential office and the government prevented the national disaster response system from working properly. However, the specific items investigated and those held responsible cannot be determined from the material checked here.

The union's visit to the scene can be read as the public-service community, which stood on the front line of disaster response, reflecting on its own responsibility. That is, however, an interpretation rather than a fact set out in the report, and no separate statement or demands from the union were confirmed. A citizens' memorial event was reportedly planned for the anniversary itself on the 29th, but the details need to be checked later.