To unadvised ones, Sa'am-Poong was a department store that colapsed in the middle of Seoul business district. It was said that unauthorized additions to the building like heavy air conditioning units on the top of building attributed toward the collapse.
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Placing the responsability on KCIA, regardless what KCIA may have represented in the past, is simply too much blindish. Better acccounts are welcome. The disaster of the SamPoong department store makes every single Korean on the surface of earth wonder what kind of country Korea is currently. The damage to the Korean people's confidence and pride is unprecedented and insurmountable. We should not forget this disaster and should try to build a society where human lives are considered more valuable than money.