Sampoong Department Store Collapse

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MBC's 'disastrous' livestream of Olympic opening ceremony

Korea Times 25 Jul 2021

AP-Yonhap. Broadcast stuns viewers with scathing representative images of countries, factual errors. By Kang Hyun-kyung ... 2021-07-24 11.18 . Tokyo Olympics ... One internet user said what MBC did would be like featuring the collapses of Sungsu Bridge or Sampoong Department Store in southern Seoul in the 1990s as representative images for South Korea ... Yonhap.

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[Cityscapes] Gwangju collapse terrifies public temporarily

Korea Times 20 Jul 2021

Sampoong Department Store in southern Seoul famously collapsed in 1995, taking over 500 lives. But people might not know there was a second department store in the area that collapsed in October 2008. The store, named Nasan Homeplace according to signs found inside, had been ...

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A tragic equation

Korea Times 22 Jun 2021

Then, two days before President Moon Jae-in departed for the summit, a building collapsed in Gwangju killing nine people and seriously injuring eight others ... Isn't this the kind of thing that only happens in developing countries? Surely, we must have learned our lesson since the Seongsoo Bridge collapse and the Sampoong department store disaster?.

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Death and Calamity: The Sampoong Department Store Collapse Explained

Interesting Engineering 19 Jun 2021

When you read about the Sampoong Department Store collapse of 1995, it will likely strike you that its cause doesn't fit into one little neat box ... Initially, the Sampoong department store was set to become a four-story residential apartment complex, to be built by a company called Woosung Construction.

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South Korea: Nine dead after building collapses on to bus in Gwangju

BBC News 09 Jun 2021

Eight people were injured in the collapse, which happened in the southern city of Gwangju ... One of the world's worst peacetime building collapses happened in South Korea in June 1995, when Seoul's Sampoong Department Store collapsed, killing more than 500 people.

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Shenzhen skyscraper closes as officials try to figure out cause of shaking

Straits Times 21 May 2021

The owner of SEG Plaza has told all tenants and merchants to stay out of the 72-storey tower from Friday (May 21), the official Xinhua News Agency reported ... Chinese Internet users urged a thorough inquiry, with some pointing to the collapse of the Sampoong Department Store in South Korea in 1995, a disaster that killed more than 500 people ... � ....

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Shenzhen skyscraper closes as officials try to figure out shaking

Straits Times 21 May 2021

The owner of SEG Plaza has told all tenants and merchants to stay out of the 72-story tower starting Friday (May 21), the official Xinhua News Agency reported ... Chinese internet users urged a thorough inquiry, with some pointing to the collapse of the Sampoong Department Store in South Korea in 1995, a disaster that killed more than 500 people ... � ....

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Book review: Time travel journey to save loved one becomes humanist exploration

Korea Times 30 Apr 2021

"Then, and There" by Lee Kyung-hee / Courtesy of Safehouse. By Park Han-sol ... And although the story hints at other national calamities, such as the collapse of the Sampoong Department Store in 1995 and the Sewol Ferry disaster in 2014, the author never sensationalizes or puts them under an unnecessary spotlight ... "Someone must remember all this ... .

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Raging helplessness of Sewol

Korea Times 18 Apr 2021

By Jason Lim. My social media page was covered with remembrances and self-condolences about the Sewol tragedy that happened seven years ago this week. I am sure that I am not an exception ... The Sampoong Department Store collapse and Seongsu Bridge collapse in the mid-nineties were arguably more shocking and killed more people ... But Sewol was different ... .

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Underwood Memorial House designated cultural heritage site

Korea Times 06 Apr 2021

Underwood Memorial House / Courtesy of the Cultural Heritage Administration. By Park Ji-won ... "Horace Horton Underwood built the house in 1927 ... Underwood (1890-1951) was a U.S ... "The textbook has social and historical value ... In particular, it was dispatched during major incidents, such as the Seongsoo Bridge and Sampoong Department Store collapses (1995).

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Korea's first firefighting chopper to be designated as cultural asset

Korea Times 01 Jan 2021

Kkachi 2 is one of the two first firefighting choppers introduced by Seoul's firefighting department in December 1979 ... The deadliest disaster in modern Korean history occurred just a year later as Sampoong Department Store in Seoul's posh southern Seocho District collapsed, a tragic event that still remains vivid in many people's memories.

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On thoroughness

Korea Times 26 May 2020

By Kim Ae-ran ... My mother held the ears again one by one in silence and harvested the leftovers from them ... Such is the thorough spirit of craftsmanship ... As we can see, doing things roughly and hurriedly has tragically resulted in serious disasters such as the collapse of the Sampoong Department Store or the sinking of the Sewol ferry ... .

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The 10 Best Korean Dramas to Watch on Netflix

Time Magazine 13 May 2020

Mr ... Ten days after the king mysteriously collapses, rumors that he is dead begin to spread ... The cast’s transition to adulthood is captured as they navigate relationships against the backdrop of real-life historical events, from the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul to the Sampoong Department Store collapse in 1995 that killed more than 500 people ... .