Modern Korea
Season 1 • Episode 4: We Built This City: Sampoong • Watch with subtitles
Episode 4: We Built This City: Sampoong
February 6, 2020 • 53 min
June 29, 1995, 5:57 p.m. One of the most luxurious department stores in Gangnam collapsed. 502 people were killed and 937 were injured in the greatest tragedy since the Korean War. The collapse of the Sampoong Department Store was a national trauma broadcast across the nation for nearly a month.
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