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SEOUL — Built in 1989, the Sampoong Department Store was a sprawling nine-story structure that proudly stood in Seoul’s luxurious Gangnam district. It symbolized South Korea’s economic rise ...

Half of Sampoong Department Store, the pink-color, two-building complex that had stood as a landmark of the affluent Seocho-gu neighborhood, was gone, leaving behind scenes of ruins, debris and dust.

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 ...

The in-depth story 1995 Sampoong Department Store collapse disaster in Seoul. It was a busy day at the Sampoong Store that June 29, 1995. Like every other day, people were swarming through the ...

The Sampoong Department Store was a mecca for pricey foreign goods, a playground where the rich and famous of South Korea's capital shopped and dined in a sprawling complex of nine levels ...

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 ...

On 29 June 1995, the Sampoong Department Store in Seoul, South Korea, collapsed due to structural failures. The disaster killed 502 people and injured more than 900. It provoked national outrage ...