Aid promised to families of overseas victims of the Itaewon disaster arrives slowly.

Gulieva Giunai, a Russian student at Kwangwoon University, was horrified to learn that her friend Kristina was one of the 26 foreign nationals murdered in the crowd crush in Itaewon on October 29.

The two had known one other since 2020, when they both took Korean language classes at a university in North Gyeongsang Province despite being from separate Russian cities.

Despite her anguish over the unexpected loss, the 19-year....