Sampoong Department Store collapse

When

29 Jun 1995

Kind

Event

Coordinates

37.50° N, 127.01° E

Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, Sampoong Department Store collapse.

Sampoong Department Store collapse in the Seocho-gu district of Seoul, South Korea, kills 502 and injures 937.

1995 building collapse in Seoul, South Korea

On June 29, 1995, the Sampoong Department Store in Seocho District, Seoul, South Korea, collapsed due to a structural failure. The collapse killed 502 people and injured 937, making it the largest peacetime disaster in South Korean history. It was the deadliest non-deliberate modern building collapse until the 2013 Rana Plaza factory collapse in Bangladesh.

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• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributorsCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Einsturz des Sampoong-Gebäudes in Seoul, Südkorea”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “В Сеуле, Южная Корея, внезапно обрушился универсальный магазин, под обломками которого погибли около 500 человек”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “en Seúl, (Corea del Sur) se produce un derrumbe en el edificio de las Tiendas Sampoong”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Chinese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “韩国三丰百货大楼倒塌事故，造成502人死亡，937人受伤。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page