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	Sampoong Department Store collapse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Sampoong Department Store (삼풍 백화점) collapse is a structural failure that occurred on June 29, 1995 in the Seocho-gu district of Seoul, South Korea.
		The Sampoong Group commenced construction of the Sampoong Department Store in 1987 over a tract of land previously used as a landfill.
		The store consisted of a north wing and south wing, connected by an atrium.
	911research.wtc7.net /cache/wtc/analysis/compare/wikipedia_sampoongcollapse.html (855 words)

	9-11 Research: The Sampoong Department Store Collapse
		Collapse of Faultily Constructed Department Store in Korea Killed Over 500
		The collapse of the building, which was constructed using steel-reinforced concrete pillars, was blamed on faulty construction.
		The Sampoong building was not even a high-rise, let alone a skyscraper.
	911research.wtc7.net /wtc/analysis/compare/sampoong.html (523 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Sampoong Department Store collapse
		The Sampoong Group began construction of the Sampoong Department Store in 1987 over a tract of land previously used as a landfill.
		Five hours before the collapse, the first of several loud bangs were emitted from the top floors, as the vibrations in the air conditioning caused the cracks in the slabs to widen further.
		Shortly after the collapse, it was immediately thought that leaking gas caused the collapse, due to the fact that two gas explosions had occurred elsewhere in the city earlier in the year.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Sampoong_Department_Store_collapse (1851 words)

	Sampoong Department Store collapse - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Sampoong Department Store collapse was an engineering failure that occured on June 29, 1995 in the Seocho-gu district of Seoul, South Korea.
		The Sampoong Department Store was opened to the public on July 7, 1990, attracting an estimated 40,000 people a day during the building's five years in service.
		Sampoong Department Store Collapse, a student project from the Frankfurt International School.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Sampoong_Department_Store_collapse (713 words)

	National Geographic Channel: Explorer: Collapse
		The Sampoong Department store in Seoul, South Korea was one of the swankiest stores in town.
		Yet one minute the department store was bustling with diners and shoppers and the next, all five floors were a heap of rubble.
		Seung-Hyeon Park, an employee at the Sampoong Department Store who was buried in the rubble for 17 days without food or water before she was found.
	blogs.nationalgeographic.com /channel/blog/2005/09/explorer_collapse.html (2521 words)

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		The Sampoong Group began construction of the Sampoong Department Store in 1987 over a tract of land previously used as a landfill.
		The store management failed to shut the building down or issue formal evacuation orders, as the number of customers in the building was unusually high, and the store was not intending to lose potential revenue for that day.
		Five hours before the collapse, the first of several loud bangs were emitted from the top floors, as the vibrations in the air conditioning caused the cracks in the slabs to widen further.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Sampoong_Department_Store_collapse (1475 words)

	The Korea Times : [The Dawn of Modern Korea] (233) Collapse of Sampoong Department Store (Site not responding. Last check: )
		June 29, 1995, was marked by the worst peacetime disaster in the history of Seoul _ the collapse of the Sampoong Department Store.
		However, the managers (including the son of the Sampoong Group president who was the CEO of the department store) were reluctant to close the store: that afternoon the number of shoppers was unusually high, and they did not want to lose the revenue.
		The daughter-in-law of the Sampoong president was also buried under the wreckage, although she was subsequently rescued from a small pocket where she spent hours with one of her employees.
	times.hankooki.com /lpage/opinion/200410/kt2004101418510554130.htm (724 words)

	9-11 Research: The Sampoong Department Store Collapse
		The collapse of the building, which was constructed using steel-reinforced concrete pillars, was blamed on faulty construction.
		When it was later converted to a department store, support columns were cut away to accommodate escalators.
		The Sampoong building was apparently framed with reinforced concrete, not steel columns and beams.
	www.911research.wtc7.net /wtc/analysis/compare/sampoong.html (523 words)

	Sampoong department store collapse@Everything2.com
		The Sampoong Department Store was a new pink edifice of commercialization.
		The store simply moved much of its merchandise to the basement.
		The store's owner got 10 years in jail, and 25 other people involved in the construction were assigned jail time or levied with large fines.
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	World News Briefs;South Korean Is Jailed In Store's Collapse - New York Times
		The owner of a department store in Seoul that collapsed in June, killing more than 500 people, was sentenced to 10 1/2 years in jail today, Yonhap news agency reported.
		Lee Joon, 73, owner of the Sampoong department store, was found guilty of criminal negligence.
		The collapse of the fashionable store was one in a series of disasters in South Korea that were attributed to inadequate construction or to corruption.
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	Omnipelagos.com ~ article "Sampoong Department Store collapse" (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Later on, a fifth floor was added to the four-floor building, which was first planned to be a skating rink; the skating rink was added due to regulations that stopped the whole building from being used as a department store.
		Two days after the collapse, some officials said that anybody who was still in the building must have already died; therefore, further efforts would be made only towards "recovery" and not "rescue".
		Shortly after the collapse, it was immediately thought that leaking gas caused the collapse (due to the fact that two previous gas explosions had occured).
	www.omnipelagos.com /entry?n=sampoong_%44epartment_%53tore_collapse (1325 words)

	9-11 Research: Other Building Collapses
		That people would readily embrace the official story that plane impacts and/or fires caused the total collapse of three skyscrapers on September 11th could be predicted from the currency of the concept of building collapse, supported by the periodic reports of thousands dying from collapsing buildings in severe earthquakes.
		Collapses of buildings of any type of construction are rare in the developed world, whose building standards anticipate severe stresses.
		However, available reports and photographs do not support the reviewer's claim that the collapse was symmetric, nor would the symmetry of the collapse of the five-story structure be relevant to the symmetry of the collapse of a skyscraper such as Building 7.
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		Originally designed as an office building with four floors, Lee Joon, the future chairman of the building, redesigned the building as an upscale department store later on during its construction.
		Later on, a fifth floor was added to the building, which was intended to be a skating rink; the skating rink was added due to zoning regulations that prevented the entire building from being used for a department store.
		Two days after collapse, some officials said that anybody who is still in the building must be dead; therefore, further efforts will be made only to "recovery" and not "rescue".
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	9-11 Research: Other Building Collapses
		That people would readily embrace the official story that plane impacts and/or fires caused the total collapse of three skyscrapers on September 11th could be predicted from the currency of the concept of building collapse, supported by the periodic reports of thousands dying from collapsing buildings in severe earthquakes.
		Collapses of buildings of any type of construction are rare in the developed world, whose building standards anticipate severe stresses.
		) cited the Sampoong department store collapse to counter Jones' claim that the symmetry of the WTC collapses indicated demolition.
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		Department Store Collapse The Seoul Metropolitan government changed the number of people listed as missing in the Sampoong Department Store collapse from 197 to 410 on Thursday, prompting waves of criticism from families of the victims.
		Department Store Collapse The ROK's parliamentary speaker said on July 5 that the collapse of a Seoul department store, is, has left the nation's pride in ruins.
		An official said they were widening their net to explore widespread allegations in the media of corruption involving petty officials while the Sampoong Department Store was being built six years ago and during subsequent renovations.
	www.nautilus.org /archives/pub/ftp/napsnet/daily_reports/1995/07-95_--_Jul/JULY14 (4884 words)

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		The Sampoong department store was built in July 7, 1990 in Seoul, Seocho-ku, in the middle of an apartment development area.
		In April 1995, cracks appeared in the ceiling of the fifth floor and even tiny vibration was appreciable, but the manager of the department store took no further action than simply to move several stores to the basement.
		The department store was very packed with customers because the store was on sale at that time.
	esl.fis.edu /students/projects/disaster/sampoong.htm (482 words)

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		A department store is a retail establishment which specializes in selling a wide range of products without a single predominant merchandise line.
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	Welcom to the NEMA National Emergency Management Agency
		One of two buildings of Sampoong Department Store located at 1675-3, Seocho-dong, Seocho-gu, Seoul (the slab on the fifth floor of the northern building, 5-storied on the ground and 4-storied underground) collapsed, which was continued to collapse of the basement soon.
		０ The accident of Sampoong Department Store’s collapse resulted from incorrect construction.
		It reduced the effective section of the pillars and the steel reinforcing so stress was highly likely to be generated, but after completion of the construction, its structure was changed without permission and review of the structure, and accordingly, load exceeded and a factor of instability - cracks - grew up.
	www.nema.go.kr /eng/m4_samp.jsp (234 words)

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