Just a moment before the entire building collapsed ... with another 937 injured, making the Sampoong Department Store collapse in Seoul the worst peacetime disaster in the history of South ...

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 ...

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 ...

On April 27, KBS2’s “KBS Morning News Time” reported that Jang Dong Min was sued by a survivor of the Sampoong Department Store collapse disaster back in 1995 that took the lives of over 500 ...

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 ...

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.

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) ...