It is rare that this edit space has a take on international events, but there are takeaways from events beyond borders too. We live in a global village where the cyber superhighway has shrunk distances, communication is at the speed of light and occurrences everywhere touch our lives, sometimes in very direct ways.

The recent tragedy in Seoul, South Korea, where over 150 were dead in a crowd surge hits home, and hard. Crowd surge fatalities are not foreign to us. In this city where space is at an absolute premium, these pose humongous dangers as our history shows us.