Abstract
As a social disaster, the Itaewon disaster left more scars by structurally excluding and isolating the victim's pain and death. This article examines how the suffering and death of social disasters are socially constructed and deconstructed, and has the purpose of exploring to reveal and restore memories and stories about social disasters. Death in modern society is deemed personal, but it is in fact related to others and is socially mediated. However, the Itaewon disaster shows the characteristics of reducing the social death to a personal accident and weakening the public character of remembrance and condolence by driving the victim's pain and death out of everyday life. This is not a simple disappearance of memories over time, but a form of active discrimination to erase the lives and records of others in everyday life. Examining how individual pain and death are politically removed from our daily life in the Itaewon disaster, I suggest that mourning and memory for social disasters should be practiced in time and space overlapping with daily life.
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