Picture of the Day: Remembering the Sampoong Department Store Collapse
Flowers are placed in front of a monument in Seoul on June 25, 2015, erected to remember the victims of a 1995 collapse of Sampoong Department Store in southern Seoul. The country will mark the 20th anniversary of the incident, which killed 502 people and injured 900 others, four days later. (Yonhap)
Is there a Samsoong department store anywhere in Seoul, now, to replaced the collapsed one?
My mother-in-law was on her way to the Sampoong Department Store the day it collapsed. A friend of hers wanted to get coffee first, so they stopped in at a little shop for a cuppa and a chat. The building fell while they were at the coffee shop.