Ep 72 - Shopping for Disaster - The Sampoong Department Store Collapse
Description
We're back with Engineering Disasters - this time, we're going to South Korea in 1995 for one of the most horrible disasters on record. The Sampoong Department Store was never meant to be a store - it was built as an apartment building and converted into a store. Developer Lee Joon ignored all the warning signs and made bad decisions after bad decisions - resulting in a collapse that killed over 500 people.
It's a classic 'Swiss Cheese' model - little things that add up to a huge disaster.
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