When the disaster struck the building at 5:52 PM, hundreds of customers were inside. Just a moment before the entire building collapsed, they heard a powerful cracking sound followed by an alarm.

South Korean officials blamed the department store’s management and ... bloodiest incident in Seoul since Sampoong’s collapse. On the Saturday before Halloween, tens of thousands of partygoers ...

Half of Sampoong Department Store ... and board meeting kicked off at around 3 p.m., only three hours before the collapse. Some of the board members suggested an evacuation of employees and ...

Lee Joon, 73, owner and founder of the three-story Sampoong Department ... for the collapse.” The court also sentenced Lee Choong Woo, a former chief administrator of area where the store ...

The nine-story Sampoong Department Store that collapsed on June 29 ... a fifth-floor column were rapidly widening and hours before the collapse, executives were evacuated from the building ...

Lee Joon, the former chairman of Sampoong Department Store, died Saturday at the age of 81 ... Mr. Lee’s second son, Lee Han-sang, 50, who was president of Sampoong at the time of the collapse, ...

Sun Minh Lee was working at the shop that day. She speaks to Ben Henderson. (Photo: Sampoong Department Store after the collapse. Credit: Choo Youn-Kong/AFP/Getty Images) ...

In 1995, the collapse of the Sampoong Department Store in the South Korean capital, Seoul, killed and injured hundreds of people. Explaining the impact it had on urban planning is Dr Youngmi Kim ...

The death toll from the collapse of an eight-storey factory building near the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, has passed 500, officials say. Another 29 bodies were pulled from the rubble of the Rana ...