Further tragedy has struck after the deadly collapse of a ventilation grate at a K-pop concert in South Korea claimed 16 lives. According to Rolling Stone, the safety official in charge of last Friday's event was found dead in an apparent suicide. 

A police inspector said that the man had fallen to his death from a 10-storey building after leaving a note that said: "I am sorry for the dead victims. Please take good care of my children."

The concert took place in Seongnam, south of Seoul. Audience members had stood on the ventilation grate to get a better view of hugely popular girl band 4Minute. The platform broke under the weight and people fell 65 feet into an underground car park. 

"Basic safety precautions were all brushed aside," safety engineering expert Chung Jae-hee told AFP. "The organisers of the show should have at least set up temporary safety fences or deployed security guards there. These kind of safety hazards are latent in many places all over this country. Over the past decades, economic expansion always took precedence over safety concerns, resulting in the lack of safety conciousness among Koreans."

4Minute's management released this statement over the weekend: "We can't express how regretful they are for what happened. The performance wasn't solely a 4Minute show, but a stage shared by many artists for an event."

"During their performance, none of the members or staff were aware of the accident and finished their complete set. It wasn't until they arrived back in Seoul that they heard of the news regarding the accident."