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I just want to shoutout that first construction company that backed down from making this building when they realized how disastrous it would be, regardless of pressure from the owners. They're the kind of company that you would trust.
Usually in these cases, there will just be one engineer who spoke up. In the shuttle tragedy, one engineer. I was once that one engineer. It is not a rewarding position to be in. Everyone hates you. Until the bad thing happens. Then, they pretend you didn't warn them.
This calls for showing respect to every builder and architect whose buildings still stand after many years because they chose to not cut corners and build the way it should be done.
True but there is construction going on right next to my building and even as a layman I can easily see several faults which over time might result in tragedy. The fact that 16 steel rods were replaced with just 8 is what is happening here. There is nothing I can do. 😖
@@itsourlife now is exactly the time to contact every regulatory agency in your area to report this - and document everything! People will become apathetic over time, but right now it is very much in the front of people's minds, and they may just take action.
Yet after all of this time the Colosseum in Rome is still there. How many ancient buildings are still standing in Europe? The buildings not standing anymore are either bombed during war or demolished. Modern buildings are not nearly as safe or strong. Stay safe everyone.
I'd like to add a few details: 1. Executives fled from the building 17 minutes before the collapse, after the engineers warned "collapse was imminent" 2. That day the president of Sampoong said in the national TV interview, "I know that some people got hurt, but whats most important is that I lost a lot of asset!" 3. The daughter in law of the Sampoong president was also in the building at the time of the accident, but he left her behind before fleeing as well. She luckily survived and was rescued 14 hours later.
@@dongwoochang I know but it’s an example of this bubble we’re in. We don’t pay much attention to other countries and the tragedies that happen there. It might get a blip on the evening news but out of sight out of mind happens much too often.
I used to live in Banpo in 5th grade and went to Sampoong mall all the time.. used to go swimming there with my mom and friends. The collapse traumatized me so much that I started to sleep with bottled water and snacks next to me in my case apartment building collapsed..
Knowing the fact executives knew what is coming all along and they did escape the mall, but did not evacuate everone who was there to gain profit for as long as possible is just impossible to fit in my mind.. Longest 10 years its literally too short of a sentence considering the fact it was almost intentionally left to run in risk of people dying.. What a greed. Unimaginable.
I'm sure there's many stories like that... look up 9/11 and read about the group of people calling in sick that day the towers fell.... or the guy who opted for "terrorism" insurance the day before the attack.. and ended up super rich after the buildings fell... hmm 🤔
@@dans4645 im sorry but even if the building was flawed that still dosent change the fact there video and thousands of witnesses who saw planes hit the towers but yeah i can agree logically there is definitly some contruction in the usa that was similary cheaply built due to corruption in fact i can name one a dancing hall where the owners new the ground was lower in the middle and just added more floor instead of trying to find out why it lead to dozens of deaths as a giant sinkholle was underath and collapsed during a wedding dance.
@John Hunyadi Many of these types are somewhere on the psychopathy spectrum, and these people have no conscience and no regard for anyone. Big business, politics, entertainment, and economics draw these types in and it's frightening.
Not as bad structurally as you might think, as concrete has a very high compression strength. More bars would have slowed a collapse though, potentially saving lives- adequate steel reinforcement is required by law in many places for this reason
I was teaching English at ECC Banpo at the time, just a few blocks away from Sampoong . The anger at this needless tragedy was felt across the country, like the Sewol ferry disaster in 2014.
Wow, thanks for sharing this perspective on it Gobear! It's crazy to think even after all that reform from Sampoong things like the ferry disaster still happen near 20 yrs later, very sad.
@@BrickImmortar I also worked at ECC Banpo teaching English, arriving in November 1995. We would walk by the remains of Sampoong Department Store which was just down the street from the school. A number of teachers I worked with often frequented Sampoong. It was such a tragedy to see its remains, like a big open wound. We lived in old run down low rise apartments nearby that had supposedly been constructed by the US Military. That's what we were told anyway, to reassure us that our old units were safe to live in even if they looked ugly!
@@rtth4378 don’t be a dick mate, doesn’t make you look good. No one is perfect but there are definite levels to quantify dangerous greed.....thus you don’t have a point just anger
They tried to save one extra day for a million and instead they lost everything and took lives. So sad. Extremely well done video, can’t wait to see the future of your channel
4:35 The final survivor being pulled out after 17 DAYS!? I couldn't even imagine what that must've been like. Worse than Hell. I don't think I'd have the will power or mind set to hang on after 1 week, but 17 days? That's just insane.
You‘ve never been put in such a situation, and I hope you never will be. Extreme situations warrant extreme measures. The will to survive is amazing, but at the same time that survivor was lucky to have been found. Two weeks without food are somewhat ok, but having no water is the biggest problem.
They were probably unconcious the whole time, the body being forced by an injury during the moment of collapse into a sort of stasis mode long before those 17 days even started. Else they'd not survive the lack of water. Being the last to come out would have meant they were the furthest inside the collapse so extreme injury is even more likely.
For the people giving suggestions about the last survivor there is/was a documentary about this mall on YT I watched years ago (can't remember the name and not sure if it's still up) and they interviewed the last survivor. She was a young adult that lived ny drinking the rain water that trickled down to her and she had lost 20 pounds in the ordeal. She had been on one of the lower floors at the time of the collapse and couldn’t move, but fortunately was laying facing straight up.
I had been in this department 3-4 times. I came back to Korea 2 days after collapse and was shocked to see just the two standing walls. The company I was visiting has windows facing the site. The guy I was visiting saw it go down!! He said it was very quick and very quiet. He was speechless....
Oh my god that is the worst. I think the lack of screaming makes the whole thing even creepier. Imagine seeing such a massive construction suddenly pancake to a fifth of it's size knowing there are hundreds of people inside and not hearing anything?
@@vice.nor.virtue 😢 Twin Towers My grandfather landed on Hiroshima shore 3 days after they dropped the bomb. He was there for a year serving in the army. He doesn't talk about it. He did mention one thing. We asked him what Japan looked like when he got off the boat. He said "You know the pictures with one wall left standing from a building & everything else is just rubble surrounding it. That's what it looked like as far as the eye could see." "There was nothing, just rubble." I could feel the shock of that time still in him. He saw the impact it had on those people everything gone.
@@orneryokinawan4529 Yikes I hope you are OK. The cancers didn't start on my grandfather till after he left Japan. Random cancer throughout his body at different times. He's a tough cookie he survived them all only to die of CIVID 😿 Mankind can do wondrous things. When I was young I lived on a pluted military base for 3 years now I suffer from all kinds of stomach problems and other health complications along with my family and other service members who lived on that military base. It has been several years & the military still has not recognised it as far as Service members & their families but does for civilians. You know, civilians can sue 😉
Not just the employees but everyday there! the families who have 2 days a week to hang out together, the kids having their first mall experience and so much youth left to live, the people on their way to work in the underground floor trying to catch a subway etc...
The collapse of the Miami condo brought me here. It’s always so dark yet fascinating to understand the importance of engineering construction management in worst case scenarios like this, especially while watching it unfold.
The Miami condo collapse is EXTREMELY similar to this based on the facts we know, including ignored reports, unregulated renovations removing vital support structures and even heavy structures on the roof added after the fact. Even the collapses look the same.
Besides the second law of thermodynamics, everything is failing or breaking apart. The system is breaking down gradually. People are using cheaper building materials others are exploiting existing materials. More collapses more deaths more negligence is sadly bound to happen because of Crooks corruption both in commercial and political sectors. The main reason is greed. Unless people learn to become honest hard workers who play by the rules, world issues such as these continue to happen.
I’m literally sick to my stomach watching this. I never even thought about stuff like this until now. 🤦🏾♂️ really creepy shit man. 😳 I can’t look away tho . Rip 🙏🏾 to all innocent lives lost
"I refuse to lose even a single day of revenue by closing the mall". "But sir, many people could die!" "That's a risk I'm willing to take". An utterly disgusting level of greed. I'm not a violent person at all, but if I was the relative of a victim I think I would have been willing to risk a jail sentence of my own to find these people and put them in a situation that caused the same kind of terror felt by those inside the mall when it collapsed. No jail term is long enough for the guilty.
@@cassiemontgomery45 > Complete, unfettered capitalism is a scourge for any society Emigrate to North Korea then, maybe you'll learn something. I lived in both socialism and capitalism. Capitalism is way better. (However, capitalism does not make people less evil or greedy, and its not a paradise by any means).
> I'm not a violent person at all, but if I was the relative of a victim I think I would have been willing to risk a jail sentence of my own to find these people and put them in a situation that caused the same kind of terror felt by those inside the mall when it collapsed. I see internet keyboard warrior getting his daily dose of outrage. Cool down.
I took an architecture class in high school ages ago as a requirement for my program (it wasn't anything serious lol) and we watched a documentary about this mall before our structure-building project. It was insane! I'm still very bothered about how much negligence was involved.
@@piercehawke8021 this happened the same year that the Oklahoma City bombing happened but unlike that this was do to negligence on behalf of the owners
This is why I would NEVER buy a new construction. Imagine living on the 50th floor of a multi million dollor condo built by greed, corruption, shoddy materials, price cutting, poor work ethics, etc etc etc.
Look what’s happening in Australia. People have been evacuated from a bunch of high rises after paying a huge amount to live there. And now they can’t return.
The one in San Francisco is called Millennium Tower. It's a condominium building of 58 floors and each unit cost a few millions. It sank 17 inches and tilted 14 inches. They have done somethings to the foundation since but I don't know if they were able to put the building back straight up.
@KHPS MN I was quite conscious about world events but don't remember anything coming from South Korea around that time. Definitely remember 1993 Oklahoma bombing like events though.
@@marufio The company was more worried about profit loss from needing to close down. Even in press conference after the collapse, the chairman said "I know some people got hurt, but I also suffered a huge loss to my assets".
This is one of the best engineering disaster videos I have seen. I like the thorough but easy to understand explanation you gave. Those poor people who had to die, crazy how it happened on the exact same day that the structural engineers gave their findings/concerns
Thanks Carolina! Yeah the whole thing was just tragic and even worse they might not have even prosecuted if it weren't for the public outrage. Crazy the corruption got that far
9:35 They added columns for support, but not column on column in line? I'm not an engineer but I think even a two-year-old with building blocks would figure out that's a stupid idea.
The Miami condo collapse is EXTREMELY similar to this based on the facts we know, including ignored reports, unregulated renovations removing vital support structures and even heavy structures on the roof added after the fact changing the load bearing. Even the collapses look the same and pancaked exactly the same.
I know buildings aren’t meant to collapse with people in them but if the worst happens don’t you want them to collapse downward instead of over where they can cause even more death and take out other surrounding structures?
@@Collins1118 you can't really control where a building is gonna collapse if you're not doing it yourself. Although a major building toppling on one side isn't too common anyway.
Yeah you can't mess with concrete buildings. Ceilings without steel girders are extremely vulnerable to runaway collapse. "A girder" can fail, but everything is fine in a steel-frame structure due to redundancy. Concrete is dead weight held up by rebar toothpicks inside columns that can crack. Single-point failure = structural failure in this type of architecture. Twin Towers, Sampoon Mall, viaducts and freeways in earthquakes, and now, Florida condo. There's many more examples. Concrete is cheaper, but less stable. Maintenance and inspection is critical. Conspiracy theorists go nuts when they see concrete go down, because it looks like demolition. Well, that's how single-point failure = collapse works. It's not a conspiracy - it's concrete damaged, or not maintained.
Ok as a construction worker that’s spent about 36 years building hi rise buildings in australia, I am utterly gobsmacked by the columns not being sited on top of each other. And half the REO being removed. Half! Absolutely criminal greed and irresponsibility. Now the same things happening in China. Only a matter of time before something like this, or worse, happens there…
To Planet Disco What are your thoughts about the Florida Condo that has Collapsed as this seems simular as this was very shocking so many people Died this is first time i heard of this i am in Australia in Melbourne Vic.I have watched on UA-cam watching the Demolictions and it is Facinating but takes so long to Build and gone in Seconds Collapse.I feel very sad for those victims in both places.😇😮😚
Oh they sleep very well. They have sociopathic personalities so they simply don't care about any potential loss of human lives as a result of their decisions.
I used to live a couple of blocks from the dept store with my family before it collapsed. One of my sisters lived a block away from there as well. We used to shop and dine out there a few times a week. We were so horrified when we heard the news. Luckily I was already here in the states and none of my family was there at the time of the event. But it has still haunted me to this day. This vid made me revisit the memory lane. So sorry for the lost lives to greed and corruption. Men made disasters are always the worst.
To felony thankyou for your response to the Champlain Condos in Florida Collapse i would never live in any High Rise as have Trouble with the Owner NOT FIXING THINGS ON GROUND LEVEL I AM IN AUSTRALIA BUT IN LOCKDOWN SO EVEN IF I WANT TO MOVE AT THE MOMENT STUCK THE THING WOULD BE THE VIEW BUT I CAN WALK 15 MIN AND GET A VIEW TO THE BEACH.WERE ARE U FROM.
How horrifying. I don't know how people that do these things live with themselves. Very important video, Sam. I'm glad you reuploaded it so more people can learn about this event. Thank you.
Those people you don't understand , they are filthy rich (well were) , when they had plenty of money it was very easy for them to live with themselves and their money , they don't need to care about pawns , that is what the government is for .
So many people had a chance to prevent this tragedy, yet they didn’t. For the families of the victims, the pain goes on forever, sincerest condolences.
@@BrickImmortar Knowing human nature it won’t be, there will always be some small group of people who will take the easiest and cheaper route. I wish the first construction company would have publicly, and loudly, said something to Korean media about the dangerous changes to the building process.
I can’t imagine losing someone in this disaster, then finding out the executives knew what was going to happen and only evacuated themselves. And only ten years?! Wow!
"The families & victims pushed for a memorial to be built along the lines of a park or something memorializing the victims. However, this was turned down by local governments, & the site became the home to ____ apartment complexes." History unfortunately repeats itself. 😔
Stuff is pretty safe in Korea now. Everything is dominated by a few huge chaebols. They have no incentive to cut corners since the companies are so big.
@@PrezVeto Last June in the US there was a building collapse that could have been due to negligence & cut corners during construction. The families wanted a memorial to honor their loved ones, but instead the property was listed for sale & sold at a large price tag. The money will be shared between the families, but the families still felt this was a greedy decision.
Back in 1989 I watched them build a small hotel. Well midway thru the construction they decided to add two more floors. They didn't order any more concrete and steel to add these floors, they just added more sand to the concrete. I guess the only saving grace was the upper floors being lighter, haha.... with all the construction and growth since then I bet the hotel was torn down and something larger put in it's place.
@@buxtintravel not on @James, but its definitely stated in the video that the building was meant to collapse sooner or later, the movement of the cooling units does causes major vibration through out the building, so james is correct.
My wife’s cousin and grandma died in this disaster.. they went there to buy a children’s book. I’ve been to the memorial in the citizens forest as well; it’s a fair distance from the centre of town and almost tucked away. It’s a real shame in my opinion the memorial isn’t located in a prominent location.. not only out of respect for the victims memory but also to remind people on a daily basis the importance of integrity and doing the right thing (even when it’s hard)
It's not shocking this took place. People see Korea as modern today but from 1945-1965 Korea was one of the poorest counties on earth. There was major corruption and chaebols ruled the government. They have made progress since then but corruption scandals still rock the country today.
It's worrying how my generation has been indoctrinated by Korean cultural propaganda. Beneath the glamour, South Korea operates like a third world country.
@Winnie P I didn't say anything to the contrary, however, people are painting Korea almost as some perfect place. It is also not "some accident" (the language you use really shows what you stand for), this was a tragedy resulting from a deliberate cutting of corners and could have been prevented.
@@YT-wl6kt M Ch Jj Bb R S Kk. Just because foreigners know 한국의 역사 and you don't doesn't mean they are "slandering Korea". Maybe grow up and realize your country has problems that can and deserve to be criticized?
Yes, this is a re-release of this video. Between UA-cam's issues with the first one (said it showed "violent video gameplay"), my terrible narration and other things that just weren't to the standards I wanted... I decided to make a more condensed version telling this story more concisely. Hope you're all doing well this week!
@@syxepop Haha yup, no matter what I said to them, even when I talked to a "real person" they'd "review" it and still say it was a violent videogame. *Facepalm*
Do you remember the nightclub fire in Daegu ROK in 1983? I was on temporary duty at Daegu AB from a base in Georgia, USA and had been in the club prior to the power outage and it was shoulder to shoulder and when the power went out and they started to put lit candles on all the tables, just long candles with no bases not small nightclub candles in glass containers like most people think about, I told the girl I was with, let's get the heck out of here we barely got down the stairs and within minutes the place was burning down. We weren't out the door more than 3-5 min and the fire started. I didm't know the extent of what happened until i went back to work on the following workday and when I did I just fell straight down onto the floor and was in a daze, it just took the wind right out of my sails. In the five years that I lived in Korea from 84-89 I never let myself stay or enter a place when I got that feeling in the pit of my stomach.
Came back to this video in light of what happened today in Miami, the way the building fell just reminded me of this story. Can’t imagine the terror these people experienced in their last moments, my heart goes out to the families and friends affected by both of these tragedies. There aren’t any words
@@Nikkisweeets it was almost 100 people, that’s much more than a handful. Aside from that, miami has a lot of snowbirds. There’s plenty of apartments that are owned but inly in use maybe half the year during the winter/fall.
I remember me and my grandmother where driving a block away from the mall as it collapsed. We pulled over and just watched it crumble to the ground. I was there just a week before. I was about 9 at the time and it definitely had an impact on me later in life.
I visited Korea as a kid and remember going to this mall. I believe there was a also major bridge collapse a year before this mall collapsed. Well anyhow I remember I wasn't too impressed with the mall. Needless to say it freaked me out when I heard about the collapse. It's such a horrific tragedy driven by greed.
It amazes me how much miscellaneous modern history I’ve never heard of, it’s kind of cool that the internet allows us to learn about things we’d never hear of otherwise.
It’s amazing how experts are grilled about the reasons behind their decisions, but executives don’t have to explain a thing - they just expect what they say goes.
One of my friends died in the Sewol ferry accident, I understand the anguish and pain the families and friends felt the day this b uilding collapsed. And I am angry that my govt let it happen time and time again, not changing policies, laws or even attempting to abolish laws that protect those responsible.
How devastating and awful. God rest those poor innocent souls who were taken in all the collapsing in Korea. Corruption always hurts the innocent most.
I swear I heard that one of the executives that evacuated themselves, had a daughter or niece shopping in that mall that same day, and he didn't do anything to even get her to evacuate. Don't know how true this is, but if it is true that's disgusting, if it wasn't true, still disgusting that they decided to only save their own assess and let everyone continue shopping for more profit.
It's not just one of the executives, but the Chairman and his daughter-in-law. Even she was also one of the victims, but went to apologized to the people after being rescued. Btw executives didn't escape but they just didn't need to, bcz at that time they were having a meeting in a building that didn't collapse.
Also the drama black the main character she has visions and then her friend died in the mall collapse from corruption I'm wondering if its a reference to this
there is another k-Drama called Chocolate the main character ends up beneath the rubble when she is still a child and is shown to have severe PTSD later on (though later on in the series it gets better for her) this one is actually on netflix
so..the perpetrators lost their whole fortune, spent 7-10 years in jail, have their reputation forever marred by this tragedy and many lives lost that's on their shoulders...I say that's nowhere near enough of a punishment..I bet they don't even feel guilty about the people that had died in this tragedy, they're just sorry they got caught...
There's a K-drama called Just Between Lovers that is about two people who were victims of the collapse of a mall, called the S Mall, that killed and injured many people years before, and how they deal with the trauma of what happened. It's a pretty cute drama. My explanation doesn't really do it justice, but I don't really know how to describe it. Lol. I believe it's on Hulu. P.S. I'm not saying that the drama is based on these events but seeing as it is about two people who fall in love and who were both victims of a building called the S Mall collapsed while the building that collapsed in real life is the Sampoong Mall, one could assume that the inspiration was the real S Mall, aka theSampoong Mall, collapse. [EDIT] P.S. The drama is kind of like how the titanic film was. The romance is the main focus while the tragedy is in the background.
Damn good thing i saw this comment. Now that when u think abour it, it really feels like that S Mall was like what happened in this Mall. That drama was heavy and at the same time a calm one. I kept on crying for the few final eps
i think it was partially based on it as the ML was the last one to be pulled out and the FL was the daughter of the construction worker(similar to the exec daughtr being left behind and saved later). it was a beautiful drama and its one of my favourites!!
I found out about this disaster because of a kdrama I watched, the neglect in this situation is beyond sickening. It reminds me of what the captain and most of the crew did during the sinking of the Sewol ferry. They told all those kids to stay put while they escaped knowing they weren’t going back to try and rescue them. Disgusting
If you search up those apartments in korean, you'll apparently find Building A of the acrovista development had 20 workers die during the construction. Building A was built directly on the site of collapse. Building B and C were built on the bridge and carpark part of the building which didn't collapse, and didn't have any workers die during the contruction. Apparently Building A is also super haunted; lifts moving on their own, dogs barking at nothing, noises heard in particular on ground floor apartments, screaming in hallways etc.
Just moved my grandma from a ninth floor apartment because of cracking in concrete and concerns about the building that I really thought she was being her typical self but now days after Miami im glad we moved her out now she's safe in a single level building
Okay who wants to live in a hi rise apartment building in a country where 4% of their hi rises are compliant with code , over top the remains of dead from a mall collapse , that was built over a land fill , sounds like luxury digs , No ?
Sadly, I have first hand experience of living in a very well-appointed high-rise condo in Manila (rent was paid by my company).....19th floor of a 32 floor structure. Every time there was a strong wind, the building would sway (quite noticeably). Very, very scary.........luckily, I was assigned back to the USA. Definitely not typhoon-proof (as Manila is prone). 😳😳😰 P.S. The Philippines is known for its corruption.
My dad worked a block next to this district. That entire "super fast high urban development" district of Seoul later revealed so many construction flaws and corruption that his company moved, massive reconstruction and restructuring projects were undertook, and much stricter regulations were actively enforced by the state. The mutual civil rage was unbelievably large and had a common enemy. This was a landmark incident in so many Seoulites' lives and the present state of construction and urban zoning of Korea. I'm sad that people don't talk about this much anymore, though. It's as if we moved away from it. There's now a high rise luxury apartment complex in the very ground zero of this mall. I bet it's haunted af
@@chochootrain ....unfortunately in a city such as Seoul, with 20 million people, the only choice is to build upward. I too would not want to live on a site that experienced a tragedy.
@@RumMonkeyable I can't comment on building standard in the Philippines, but high-rise buildings are designed to sway in high winds. I've worked in several tall buildings in the U.S. and have experienced some movement when the winds are strong. Sort of line buildings in earthquake zones.
I was climbing out of the command heliport in Yongsan when this happened and I actually witnessed it from the air. It didn't make sense what I had seen until after I landed and heard it on the news. There were entire city blocks of tall buildings that had to be torn down because the builders cheated and used beach sand that was full of salt instead of the quarry sand specified, and it ate away the rebar in the support structure. Those buildings would have collapsed also. There was overall corruption in the construction business and all of the city government was involved.
Interesting tidbit about this: There's a series of apartment blocks just behind the former site of the Sampoong Department Store. They're still called "Sampoong Apartments". If you know where to look in the nearby subway station, you can find them.
@@Slenderman63323 Since the apartments didn't suffer any damage from the collapse, they remained occupied and look no different from the other 189375692 apartment high-rises in Seoul.
I am a forensic architect. I have a 35 year career engaged in forensic and building failure analysis. This is the first time I’m hearing about this. I am assuming there were no or completely corrupt building inspectors.
Heard this from my Korean student way back 2012. Another student's friend's mom was a victim. This was also referenced in one episode of the drama Reply 1994
there are apparently several k-dramas that also contain this disaster.. i recently watched the K-drama Chocolate in wich the main character actually ended up under the rubble as a child..
i just heard about this event today after watching a video where south koreans from different generations tell of the biggest things they remember from their time. when it came to the 90s, they mentioned this. so i looked it up and immediately thought of the drama Just Between Lovers. i wondered if it was based off of this event and it was! it’s a fantastic drama, but definitely very sad. the whole drama isn’t about the collapse of a mall but it’s apart of the two main characters’ backstories. and in the opening credits they even show images that look like other tragic events that happened in SK (a collapsed bridge, a sinking ferry).
Wow I’ve never even heard about this. I love how you explain the political and economic conditions in the country at the time (in addition to the really accessible explanations about the architecture and construction). Looking at the whole picture, this mall collapse was part of something much deeper and more complex. This is important because addressing those issues can often aid in ensuring that these truly horrific tragedies don’t happen again. Excellent work
How does this man only have 3.63 subs? This content is 1 mil sub type of stuff. Hope this channel see's a prosperous future, great video. This is a sad and upsetting story, but one we should be aware of.
I hope other people learned from this disaster to not cut corners. It makes me wonder where else in the world such things have been done, and what disasters are still waiting to happen.
@@alpzepta im not korean but from what i see the quality of what they make improved pretty much everywhere. remember hyundais in the 90's? now you can buy a korean car, appliance, etc. without worrying about it disintegrating after a few years (except for samsung 🔥 )
May I introduce you to History's Modern Marvels: Engineering Disasters...? The largest deadliest structural collapse in US was the Hyatt walkway that killed 114. That those people are still allowed to work ANYWHERE is unnerving.
How did I live in Korea for 4 years, learn the language, and still never hear about this? I thought SEWOL ferry disaster was the biggest corporate caused tragedy in Korea's history. I knew there was major corruption there, but I didn't realise this had happened in Seoul!
“For the love of money is the root of all evil, and some, whose hearts were fixed on it, have been turned away from the faith and been wounded with unnumbered sorrows.” 1 Tim. 6:10
This is disaster & it’s eerily similar to the disastrous building collapse in Florida about a week ago. I wonder how many more of these buildings are on the verge of collapse worldwide? Old bridges, viaducts and tunnels are in desperate need of repairs or replacement too!
A few years ago something similar happened in my own country. The shopping mall's ceiling collapsed because some idiot decided that they need a park on top of the roof. Now what happened in US. An 40-year old apartment building collapsed. I really hope people will learn from other countries experiences and do their job properly, without any shortcuts.
I saw this as a kid on I think Nat Geo or the Discovery channel but its interesting to revisit this tragedy again as it sheds new light on what happened especially being older now.
As someone with 0 prior understanding of engineering and building structure I wasn't expecting to fully understand why the collapse happened but this was so well explained
@@Medichio Eh. . . whuattt? Just tell me how many accidents you know that has happened like this in S.Korea. 15년 살면서 어느 건축의 어느 부분이 그렇게 생각하게 만들었는지도, 좀. 현재는 어느 나라에 살고 있는지도.
@@natalkak.9622 That's not a building breakdown case. The comment states about how bad S.Korea is in construction. What made him think that and why did the comment above telling that it does not suprise him get more than 100 likes?
This was a good coverage of this story . It is so so heartbreaking 😭.No integrity caused people to lose their lives .💔 You have covered it sufficiently .Kudos to you 👏🏻👏🏻
I was in Seoul and my friends was there when it happened and had just moved to the other section which did not collapsed. He stayed to help survivors until late that evening...I got the news straight from him. A last survivors had come out after 14 days from under the rubbles. That was the year of disasters, in Korea!
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I have never heard of this until I saw it on UA-cam. I live in Florida USA and follow international as well as domestic news. Thanks for uploading it.
Hyatt hotel in Kansas City would fit into this series.
Wow 17 days after found, unbelievable 😡🙏
@@alvaroakatico9188 yes, domestic news, very near you.
Hi brick where r u from
My auntie worked in this mall and sadly died. 10 years is not enough for the executives to be in jail.
I’m sorry for your loss ❤️
@@Jojoeyjo 🙏
🥺😞
I’m very sorry.
Wow! So sorry for your loss.🙏
I just want to shoutout that first construction company that backed down from making this building when they realized how disastrous it would be, regardless of pressure from the owners. They're the kind of company that you would trust.
My thoughts exactly....they rather not loose integrity over profit 🙏🏾
Yes
Usually in these cases, there will just be one engineer who spoke up. In the shuttle tragedy, one engineer. I was once that one engineer. It is not a rewarding position to be in. Everyone hates you. Until the bad thing happens. Then, they pretend you didn't warn them.
You know the moment they heard it collapsed that they weren't surprised and said "This is exactly why we didn't build it".
Wish I can find ethical contractors!
My mother was trapped in the subway station under the shopping center when the building collapsed. Luckily she survived.
So glad your mother survived! Live long and prosper !
There was a subway station???
^ the subway underneath the street, yes
Oh no! Wow. This is scary. Glad your mom survived. Wow
Thank God she survived.
This calls for showing respect to every builder and architect whose buildings still stand after many years because they chose to not cut corners and build the way it should be done.
True but there is construction going on right next to my building and even as a layman I can easily see several faults which over time might result in tragedy. The fact that 16 steel rods were replaced with just 8 is what is happening here. There is nothing I can do. 😖
Ugh….that’s sad I’m sorry :(
@@itsourlife now is exactly the time to contact every regulatory agency in your area to report this - and document everything! People will become apathetic over time, but right now it is very much in the front of people's minds, and they may just take action.
Yet after all of this time the Colosseum in Rome is still there. How many ancient buildings are still standing in Europe? The buildings not standing anymore are either bombed during war or demolished. Modern buildings are not nearly as safe or strong. Stay safe everyone.
@@itsourlife taking action with this knowledge might just save many lives my dude. You should report this somewhere
I'm noticing a pattern in all these disasters. It all revolves around cutting corners for the sake of their greed.
Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
@@NoTraceOfSense Or they have the knowledge of past failures, but do what they want anyway. People don’t always do what they know is right.
No government oversight just people doing their own thing
@@lightvacart That’s the same thing as not learning from history.
thats how some build countries in the third world - pay ,enforece silence ,die rich
I'd like to add a few details:
1. Executives fled from the building 17 minutes before the collapse, after the engineers warned "collapse was imminent"
2. That day the president of Sampoong said in the national TV interview, "I know that some people got hurt, but whats most important is that I lost a lot of asset!"
3. The daughter in law of the Sampoong president was also in the building at the time of the accident, but he left her behind before fleeing as well. She luckily survived and was rescued 14 hours later.
Omg
wha... is he really say that 😦
500+ people DIED...he's really nothing but a greedy and inhumane b
Wow that's sad
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This is the first time I had heard of this. I’m speechless.
SAME HERE 2021 MARCH I NEVER HEARD A WORD !
Me too! OMG, why?
yet u still said something
@@kristenevans4557 this happened before the internet...
@@dongwoochang I know but it’s an example of this bubble we’re in. We don’t pay much attention to other countries and the tragedies that happen there. It might get a blip on the evening news but out of sight out of mind happens much too often.
I used to live in Banpo in 5th grade and went to Sampoong mall all the time.. used to go swimming there with my mom and friends. The collapse traumatized me so much that I started to sleep with bottled water and snacks next to me in my case apartment building collapsed..
I'm sorry to hear this Alice :/ I hope you are better now...godspeed my friend.
If something like that happened to me, i would never sleep again
I'm sorry, I hope you are doing better now
Oh my I'm so sorry. Hope you're doing better now!! ):
I'm so sorry
Knowing the fact executives knew what is coming all along and they did escape the mall, but did not evacuate everone who was there to gain profit for as long as possible is just impossible to fit in my mind.. Longest 10 years its literally too short of a sentence considering the fact it was almost intentionally left to run in risk of people dying.. What a greed. Unimaginable.
I'm sure there's many stories like that... look up 9/11 and read about the group of people calling in sick that day the towers fell.... or the guy who opted for "terrorism" insurance the day before the attack.. and ended up super rich after the buildings fell... hmm 🤔
@@dans4645 im sorry but even if the building was flawed that still dosent change the fact there video and thousands of witnesses who saw planes hit the towers but yeah i can agree logically there is definitly some contruction in the usa that was similary cheaply built due to corruption in fact i can name one a dancing hall where the owners new the ground was lower in the middle and just added more floor instead of trying to find out why it lead to dozens of deaths as a giant sinkholle was underath and collapsed during a wedding dance.
Those bastards
Just happened in florida 3 days ago
@John Hunyadi Many of these types are somewhere on the psychopathy spectrum, and these people have no conscience and no regard for anyone. Big business, politics, entertainment, and economics draw these types in and it's frightening.
11:20 They reduced 16 bars to 8.
... *WHAT!?!?*
Im not an engineer but even I could see that was a *TERRIBLE* idea...
Not as bad structurally as you might think, as concrete has a very high compression strength. More bars would have slowed a collapse though, potentially saving lives- adequate steel reinforcement is required by law in many places for this reason
@@Thoron20 seconds to escape, that’s truly horrifying to think
I was teaching English at ECC Banpo at the time, just a few blocks away from Sampoong . The anger at this needless tragedy was felt across the country, like the Sewol ferry disaster in 2014.
Wow, thanks for sharing this perspective on it Gobear! It's crazy to think even after all that reform from Sampoong things like the ferry disaster still happen near 20 yrs later, very sad.
The Sewol disaster is one of those tragedies that every time i'm reminded of still greatly saddens me. Those poor kids.
The boat is sinking. Please don't leave the boat.
OK.
@@BrickImmortar I also worked at ECC Banpo teaching English, arriving in November 1995. We would walk by the remains of Sampoong Department Store which was just down the street from the school. A number of teachers I worked with often frequented Sampoong. It was such a tragedy to see its remains, like a big open wound. We lived in old run down low rise apartments nearby that had supposedly been constructed by the US Military. That's what we were told anyway, to reassure us that our old units were safe to live in even if they looked ugly!
Those were the days ... how I loved the smell of kimichi and garlic first thing in the morning.
Greed is the root to all evil
No greed is also why you have UA-cam
@@rtth4378 don’t be a dick mate, doesn’t make you look good. No one is perfect but there are definite levels to quantify dangerous greed.....thus you don’t have a point just anger
the original quote is "the love of money is the root of all evil".
corruption is the root of all evil. greed gave us the modern world. if you want to go live in a mud hut go head.
Simplistic regurgitated nonsense is the root of all exasperating comments.
I actually had lunch on the top floor the day before the collapse.
Still gives me the shivers...
Wow, incredible.
Wow... I got chills reading that.
So lucky....Thats terrifying
things that didnt happen
What did you eat for lunch?
They tried to save one extra day for a million and instead they lost everything and took lives. So sad.
Extremely well done video, can’t wait to see the future of your channel
4:35 The final survivor being pulled out after 17 DAYS!? I couldn't even imagine what that must've been like. Worse than Hell. I don't think I'd have the will power or mind set to hang on after 1 week, but 17 days? That's just insane.
You‘ve never been put in such a situation, and I hope you never will be.
Extreme situations warrant extreme measures. The will to survive is amazing, but at the same time that survivor was lucky to have been found.
Two weeks without food are somewhat ok, but having no water is the biggest problem.
Maybe he got stuck in a convenience store and was feasting the whole time. But I don't think so
They were probably unconcious the whole time, the body being forced by an injury during the moment of collapse into a sort of stasis mode long before those 17 days even started. Else they'd not survive the lack of water. Being the last to come out would have meant they were the furthest inside the collapse so extreme injury is even more likely.
It was raining during the rescue operation. The survivors could only rely on the rain water that went through numerous debris and dust to survive.
For the people giving suggestions about the last survivor there is/was a documentary about this mall on YT I watched years ago (can't remember the name and not sure if it's still up) and they interviewed the last survivor. She was a young adult that lived ny drinking the rain water that trickled down to her and she had lost 20 pounds in the ordeal. She had been on one of the lower floors at the time of the collapse and couldn’t move, but fortunately was laying facing straight up.
I had been in this department 3-4 times. I came back to Korea 2 days after collapse and was shocked to see just the two standing walls. The company I was visiting has windows facing the site. The guy I was visiting saw it go down!! He said it was very quick and very quiet.
He was speechless....
Oh my god that is the worst. I think the lack of screaming makes the whole thing even creepier. Imagine seeing such a massive construction suddenly pancake to a fifth of it's size knowing there are hundreds of people inside and not hearing anything?
@@vice.nor.virtue 😢 Twin Towers
My grandfather landed on Hiroshima shore 3 days after they dropped the bomb. He was there for a year serving in the army. He doesn't talk about it. He did mention one thing.
We asked him what Japan looked like when he got off the boat. He said "You know the pictures with one wall left standing from a building & everything else is just rubble surrounding it. That's what it looked like as far as the eye could see." "There was nothing, just rubble."
I could feel the shock of that time still in him. He saw the impact it had on those people everything gone.
@@you2angel1 ....annnd here we are in the nuclear hypersonic weapon age. I was in the 2011 tsunami disaster in Fukushima.
@@orneryokinawan4529 Yikes
I hope you are OK. The cancers didn't start on my grandfather till after he left Japan. Random cancer throughout his body at different times. He's a tough cookie he survived them all only to die of CIVID 😿
Mankind can do wondrous things. When I was young I lived on a pluted military base for 3 years now I suffer from all kinds of stomach problems and other health complications along with my family and other service members who lived on that military base. It has been several years & the military still has not recognised it as far as Service members & their families but does for civilians. You know, civilians can sue 😉
@@orneryokinawan4529 I really hope you are OK. I did give money to the relief effort.
I feel bad for the employees, they were working to provide for them and their families, which ended up costing their lives.
I WANT TO CRY
@@guadalupearias7118 yeah its pretty sad what people do to get ahead
@@gavin-1237 wow
Not just the employees but everyday there! the families who have 2 days a week to hang out together, the kids having their first mall experience and so much youth left to live, the people on their way to work in the underground floor trying to catch a subway etc...
@@gavin-1237 communism baby
The excecutives only received 10 years in jail at most? At least 500 people died. They should be given death penalty!!
The koreans made justice in brazilian way.
@@marcosffontes Money do speak a lot 😢
Justice in korea is a shit show
Does Korea have death penalty?
Manslaughter and negligence does not amount to murder. So they could not be punished with the punishment for murder.
The collapse of the Miami condo brought me here. It’s always so dark yet fascinating to understand the importance of engineering construction management in worst case scenarios like this, especially while watching it unfold.
The Miami condo collapse is EXTREMELY similar to this based on the facts we know, including ignored reports, unregulated renovations removing vital support structures and even heavy structures on the roof added after the fact.
Even the collapses look the same.
Same
Yes someone post a comment with this linked to it. I bet this is what happened in Florida.
Besides the second law of thermodynamics, everything is failing or breaking apart. The system is breaking down gradually. People are using cheaper building materials others are exploiting existing materials. More collapses more deaths more negligence is sadly bound to happen because of Crooks corruption both in commercial and political sectors. The main reason is greed. Unless people learn to become honest hard workers who play by the rules, world issues such as these continue to happen.
I’m literally sick to my stomach watching this. I never even thought about stuff like this until now. 🤦🏾♂️ really creepy shit man. 😳 I can’t look away tho . Rip 🙏🏾 to all innocent lives lost
"I refuse to lose even a single day of revenue by closing the mall".
"But sir, many people could die!"
"That's a risk I'm willing to take".
An utterly disgusting level of greed.
I'm not a violent person at all, but if I was the relative of a victim I think I would have been willing to risk a jail sentence of my own to find these people and put them in a situation that caused the same kind of terror felt by those inside the mall when it collapsed. No jail term is long enough for the guilty.
Complete, unfettered capitalism is a scourge for any society, and the innocent are the ones who pay the ultimate cost.
@@cassiemontgomery45 > Complete, unfettered capitalism is a scourge for any society
Emigrate to North Korea then, maybe you'll learn something. I lived in both socialism and capitalism. Capitalism is way better. (However, capitalism does not make people less evil or greedy, and its not a paradise by any means).
> I'm not a violent person at all, but if I was the relative of a victim I think I would have been willing to risk a jail sentence of my own to find these people and put them in a situation that caused the same kind of terror felt by those inside the mall when it collapsed.
I see internet keyboard warrior getting his daily dose of outrage. Cool down.
Imagine being so greedy even Ebenezer Scrooge would call you a scumbag.
@@denysvlasenko1865 🙄
I took an architecture class in high school ages ago as a requirement for my program (it wasn't anything serious lol) and we watched a documentary about this mall before our structure-building project. It was insane! I'm still very bothered about how much negligence was involved.
I don’t recall ever hearing about this disaster, I ‘m shocked that I’m hearing about this for the first time .
Seconds from Disaster did a really good documentary on this one.
It shocked me as well. I just hope something good occurred in this disaster and, those who perished, their deaths weren't in vain. RIP to all.
@@piercehawke8021 this happened the same year that the Oklahoma City bombing happened but unlike that this was do to negligence on behalf of the owners
@@Jprager Sht, you're RIGHT!
I hadn’t heard either. It’s absolutely horrible.
This is why I would NEVER buy a new construction. Imagine living on the 50th floor of a multi million dollor condo built by greed, corruption, shoddy materials, price cutting, poor work ethics, etc etc etc.
An example is in SF, where the damned building is actually leaning.
@@msr1116 Yes! I remember watching a documentary about that but could't remeber where it was. Thanks for your post.
@@mattdeans9873 ...you're welcome.
Look what’s happening in Australia. People have been evacuated from a bunch of high rises after paying a huge amount to live there. And now they can’t return.
The one in San Francisco is called Millennium Tower. It's a condominium building of 58 floors and each unit cost a few millions. It sank 17 inches and tilted 14 inches.
They have done somethings to the foundation since but I don't know if they were able to put the building back straight up.
over 500 people found dead and I haven't even heard of this disaster before this video. wow! This is heartbreaking
@KHPS MN I was quite conscious about world events but don't remember anything coming from South Korea around that time. Definitely remember 1993 Oklahoma bombing like events though.
I didn't either until now.
@@itsourlife what happened with Oklahoma bombing?
I've never heard of it either until now but to be fair I was only about 8 years old at the time and thousands of miles away.
@@KimAhrina11 Timothy McVeigh happened.
I can't believe those engineers came in to warn them of the collapse the exact same day it fell. Rest in peace to every single lost soul
If only they listened possibly hundreds been saved that same day.
Lee: “You said the building could collapse any moment??? Shyyyyt ain’t none of my business.” *runs to the nearest exit*
Should of warned someone besides the mall executives
Omg i was thinking the something
Turtle can sing sofa the explode
@@marufio The company was more worried about profit loss from needing to close down. Even in press conference after the collapse, the chairman said "I know some people got hurt, but I also suffered a huge loss to my assets".
He didn’t even warn his own daughter in law, she was trapped for days. Sick and twisted
This is one of the best engineering disaster videos I have seen. I like the thorough but easy to understand explanation you gave. Those poor people who had to die, crazy how it happened on the exact same day that the structural engineers gave their findings/concerns
Thanks Carolina! Yeah the whole thing was just tragic and even worse they might not have even prosecuted if it weren't for the public outrage. Crazy the corruption got that far
This collapse, and the Rana Plaza collapse just infuriate me.
All of the executives should've been hung, in my opinion.
@@jujubee463 I'm surprised they received such short sentences considering they were the cause of hundreds of lives lost.
@@margaretr5701 mohn-nie
@@margaretr5701 $'s speak louder than words.
9:35 They added columns for support, but not column on column in line? I'm not an engineer but I think even a two-year-old with building blocks would figure out that's a stupid idea.
I know right, like I heard that and I was like "wait...isn't that like a bad thing?"
Nah it’s worse than just doing it out of stupidity, they knew it was improper but did it anyways to increase shopping space. Not stupidity, greed.
@@perturabo7825 hanlon's razor
that blew my mind
The Miami condo collapse is EXTREMELY similar to this based on the facts we know, including ignored reports, unregulated renovations removing vital support structures and even heavy structures on the roof added after the fact changing the load bearing. Even the collapses look the same and pancaked exactly the same.
I know buildings aren’t meant to collapse with people in them but if the worst happens don’t you want them to collapse downward instead of over where they can cause even more death and take out other surrounding structures?
@@Collins1118 you can't really control where a building is gonna collapse if you're not doing it yourself. Although a major building toppling on one side isn't too common anyway.
I thought of this building too as soon as I saw the building in Miami.
Yeah you can't mess with concrete buildings. Ceilings without steel girders are extremely vulnerable to runaway collapse.
"A girder" can fail, but everything is fine in a steel-frame structure due to redundancy.
Concrete is dead weight held up by rebar toothpicks inside columns that can crack.
Single-point failure = structural failure in this type of architecture.
Twin Towers, Sampoon Mall, viaducts and freeways in earthquakes, and now, Florida condo. There's many more examples.
Concrete is cheaper, but less stable.
Maintenance and inspection is critical.
Conspiracy theorists go nuts when they see concrete go down, because it looks like demolition. Well, that's how single-point failure = collapse works.
It's not a conspiracy - it's concrete damaged, or not maintained.
They do look very similar.
Ok as a construction worker that’s spent about 36 years building hi rise buildings in australia, I am utterly gobsmacked by the columns not being sited on top of each other. And half the REO being removed. Half! Absolutely criminal greed and irresponsibility. Now the same things happening in China. Only a matter of time before something like this, or worse, happens there…
Can you be more specific? Which buildings?
What's REO?
You were prescient in your statement, unfortunately.
@@WildChildMcCloud steel reinforcements in the columns were reduced from 16 to 8
To Planet Disco What are your thoughts about the Florida Condo that has Collapsed as this seems simular as this was very shocking so many people Died this is first time i heard of this i am in Australia in Melbourne Vic.I have watched on UA-cam watching the Demolictions and it is Facinating but takes so long to Build and gone in Seconds Collapse.I feel very sad for those victims in both places.😇😮😚
Executives worried about lo$$e$, not human losses. How do they sleep at night ?
Oh they sleep very well.
They have sociopathic personalities so they simply don't care about any potential loss of human lives as a result of their decisions.
In prison
@@MichaelRabbitBass3 I was going to say that!
they sleep very well. not every human on this planet is humane, lesson #1.
They've got no conscience so they sleep well at night.
I used to live a couple of blocks from the dept store with my family before it collapsed. One of my sisters lived a block away from there as well. We used to shop and dine out there a few times a week. We were so horrified when we heard the news. Luckily I was already here in the states and none of my family was there at the time of the event. But it has still haunted me to this day. This vid made me revisit the memory lane. So sorry for the lost lives to greed and corruption. Men made disasters are always the worst.
To felony thankyou for your response to the Champlain Condos in Florida Collapse i would never live in any High Rise as have Trouble with the Owner NOT FIXING THINGS ON GROUND LEVEL I AM IN AUSTRALIA BUT IN LOCKDOWN SO EVEN IF I WANT TO MOVE AT THE MOMENT STUCK THE THING WOULD BE THE VIEW BUT I CAN WALK 15 MIN AND GET A VIEW TO THE BEACH.WERE ARE U FROM.
Was your sister OK?
How horrifying. I don't know how people that do these things live with themselves. Very important video, Sam. I'm glad you reuploaded it so more people can learn about this event. Thank you.
Thanks Dream, yeah pretty nightmare inducing and hopefully blazed the path for this to never happen again in this way, ever.
Those people you don't understand , they are filthy rich (well were) , when they had plenty of money it was very easy for them to live with themselves and their money , they don't need to care about pawns , that is what the government is for .
So many people had a chance to prevent this tragedy, yet they didn’t. For the families of the victims, the pain goes on forever, sincerest condolences.
@@BrickImmortar
Knowing human nature it won’t be, there will always be some small group of people who will take the easiest and cheaper route. I wish the first construction company would have publicly, and loudly, said something to Korean media about the dangerous changes to the building process.
How do they live with themselves?? They blame others for the problems, thus relieving their consciences.
I can’t imagine losing someone in this disaster, then finding out the executives knew what was going to happen and only evacuated themselves. And only ten years?! Wow!
"The families & victims pushed for a memorial to be built along the lines of a park or something memorializing the victims. However, this was turned down by local governments, & the site became the home to ____ apartment complexes." History unfortunately repeats itself. 😔
Yes, sooo frustrating...
Stuff is pretty safe in Korea now. Everything is dominated by a few huge chaebols.
They have no incentive to cut corners since the companies are so big.
I’m just wondering how can ppl live on the site where hundreds of ppl have died there, only scary thoughts came into mind 😰
How would that lead to history repeating itself?
@@PrezVeto Last June in the US there was a building collapse that could have been due to negligence & cut corners during construction.
The families wanted a memorial to honor their loved ones, but instead the property was listed for sale & sold at a large price tag. The money will be shared between the families, but the families still felt this was a greedy decision.
It's like they tried their hardest to make sure it collapsed
Back in 1989 I watched them build a small hotel. Well midway thru the construction they decided to add two more floors. They didn't order any more concrete and steel to add these floors, they just added more sand to the concrete. I guess the only saving grace was the upper floors being lighter, haha.... with all the construction and growth since then I bet the hotel was torn down and something larger put in it's place.
I lived there in the late 80's early 90's. So many lived in horrible conditions. The city has changed so much since then. It's amazing!
What’s the name of the hotel?
Not funny
Moving the cooling units didn't cause the collapse, it accelerated it
Did you personally investigate this or are you just speaking out of your ass on a hunch?
@@buxtintravel not on @James, but its definitely stated in the video that the building was meant to collapse sooner or later, the movement of the cooling units does causes major vibration through out the building, so james is correct.
Man literally said it was the straw the broke the camels back. Not that it was the cause.
So i you was one of the inspectors
My wife’s cousin and grandma died in this disaster.. they went there to buy a children’s book.
I’ve been to the memorial in the citizens forest as well; it’s a fair distance from the centre of town and almost tucked away.
It’s a real shame in my opinion the memorial isn’t located in a prominent location.. not only out of respect for the victims memory but also to remind people on a daily basis the importance of integrity and doing the right thing (even when it’s hard)
Came here after Miami condo collapsed. Heartbroken for all the families who are missing or dead due to yet another negligent event.
It's not shocking this took place. People see Korea as modern today but from 1945-1965 Korea was one of the poorest counties on earth. There was major corruption and chaebols ruled the government. They have made progress since then but corruption scandals still rock the country today.
It's worrying how my generation has been indoctrinated by Korean cultural propaganda. Beneath the glamour, South Korea operates like a third world country.
@Winnie P I didn't say anything to the contrary, however, people are painting Korea almost as some perfect place.
It is also not "some accident" (the language you use really shows what you stand for), this was a tragedy resulting from a deliberate cutting of corners and could have been prevented.
Erik
@@YT-wl6kt M Ch Jj Bb R S Kk. Just because foreigners know 한국의 역사 and you don't doesn't mean they are "slandering Korea". Maybe grow up and realize your country has problems that can and deserve to be criticized?
Still corrupted. The Ferry case in 2014 reflects the illusion that they're forward thinking
Yes, this is a re-release of this video. Between UA-cam's issues with the first one (said it showed "violent video gameplay"), my terrible narration and other things that just weren't to the standards I wanted... I decided to make a more condensed version telling this story more concisely.
Hope you're all doing well this week!
@@syxepop Haha yup, no matter what I said to them, even when I talked to a "real person" they'd "review" it and still say it was a violent videogame. *Facepalm*
It was recommendation to me, so it must be working, subscrived
@@amazingabby25 Thanks amazingabby!
Where have I been, never knew of this disaster? Your narration was good, kept it very interesting.
I saw the original.video to this documentary. Very well research and orgistrated. Thank you
Do you remember the nightclub fire in Daegu ROK in 1983? I was on temporary duty at Daegu AB from a base in Georgia, USA and had been in the club prior to the power outage and it was shoulder to shoulder and when the power went out and they started to put lit candles on all the tables, just long candles with no bases not small nightclub candles in glass containers like most people think about, I told the girl I was with, let's get the heck out of here we barely got down the stairs and within minutes the place was burning down. We weren't out the door more than 3-5 min and the fire started. I didm't know the extent of what happened until i went back to work on the following workday and when I did I just fell straight down onto the floor and was in a daze, it just took the wind right out of my sails. In the five years that I lived in Korea from 84-89 I never let myself stay or enter a place when I got that feeling in the pit of my stomach.
You were smart to gtfo!
Very smart!
If your gut says get out, get out.
Came back to this video in light of what happened today in Miami, the way the building fell just reminded me of this story. Can’t imagine the terror these people experienced in their last moments, my heart goes out to the families and friends affected by both of these tragedies. There aren’t any words
I just saw the live video of that.
at the time, there weren't that many CCTV's around.
If this happened today, you would see dozens and dozens of CCTV, dashcam footage of the collapse.
How is it that only a handful of people died in the Miami collapse?? That condo was at full capacity. I think the media is lying their asses off
@@Nikkisweeets full capacity doesnt mean all apts are full of people. Just means that 80-90% were owned.
@@Nikkisweeets it was almost 100 people, that’s much more than a handful. Aside from that, miami has a lot of snowbirds. There’s plenty of apartments that are owned but inly in use maybe half the year during the winter/fall.
I remember me and my grandmother where driving a block away from the mall as it collapsed. We pulled over and just watched it crumble to the ground. I was there just a week before. I was about 9 at the time and it definitely had an impact on me later in life.
Behind every such tragedy is greed and avarice. This sort of person is everywhere. Here in Ireland, we call them gombeens.
Well put sir.
@Dustin Poche let’s start with the government...
@Dustin Poche I think you mean Evangelicals.
@Dustin Poche that is very low and judgemental. Maybe you should count your words.
Here in Australia we call them the Murdoch crew.
I visited Korea as a kid and remember going to this mall. I believe there was a also major bridge collapse a year before this mall collapsed. Well anyhow I remember I wasn't too impressed with the mall. Needless to say it freaked me out when I heard about the collapse. It's such a horrific tragedy driven by greed.
It amazes me how much miscellaneous modern history I’ve never heard of, it’s kind of cool that the internet allows us to learn about things we’d never hear of otherwise.
I heard they moved the memorial to the corner of the park so that they can sell the land that the mall was in. It's pathetic.
It’s amazing how experts are grilled about the reasons behind their decisions, but executives don’t have to explain a thing - they just expect what they say goes.
This really reminded me of the Sewol Ferry in 2014. Thanks to negligence, irresponsability and messed up priorities, many died.
Obedience-culture has to die. It must be replaced with "See something, DO something."
I still remember the anguish of their poor parents :(
One of my friends died in the Sewol ferry accident, I understand the anguish and pain the families and friends felt the day this b uilding collapsed. And I am angry that my govt let it happen time and time again, not changing policies, laws or even attempting to abolish laws that protect those responsible.
Whenever men in power forget that the reason we have building codes is not to cost money or time but to save lives, tragedy follows.
There's a saying I heard a few years ago "regulations are written in blood." Horrible and sad when we are reminded about that..
How devastating and awful. God rest those poor innocent souls who were taken in all the collapsing in Korea. Corruption always hurts the innocent most.
I swear I heard that one of the executives that evacuated themselves, had a daughter or niece shopping in that mall that same day, and he didn't do anything to even get her to evacuate. Don't know how true this is, but if it is true that's disgusting, if it wasn't true, still disgusting that they decided to only save their own assess and let everyone continue shopping for more profit.
It's true, it was his son's wife, she died.
@@sarahoshea9603 God, that is disgusting.
@@sarahoshea9603 wasn't she rescued 14 hours after the collapse?
It's not just one of the executives, but the Chairman and his daughter-in-law. Even she was also one of the victims, but went to apologized to the people after being rescued. Btw executives didn't escape but they just didn't need to, bcz at that time they were having a meeting in a building that didn't collapse.
The collapse, terror, and loss of life is bad enough. Finding out the root cause - corrupt and greedy men - makes my skin crawl.
There's a K-Drama called "Just Between Lover's" that was inspired by this disaster.
Where did you watch it?
@@juliane5632 Viki has it
Also the drama black the main character she has visions and then her friend died in the mall collapse from corruption I'm wondering if its a reference to this
there is another k-Drama called Chocolate the main character ends up beneath the rubble when she is still a child and is shown to have severe PTSD later on (though later on in the series it gets better for her) this one is actually on netflix
I just watched this drama. Now I know it was based on this tragic disaster.
so..the perpetrators lost their whole fortune, spent 7-10 years in jail, have their reputation forever marred by this tragedy and many lives lost that's on their shoulders...I say that's nowhere near enough of a punishment..I bet they don't even feel guilty about the people that had died in this tragedy, they're just sorry they got caught...
There's a K-drama called Just Between Lovers that is about two people who were victims of the collapse of a mall, called the S Mall, that killed and injured many people years before, and how they deal with the trauma of what happened. It's a pretty cute drama. My explanation doesn't really do it justice, but I don't really know how to describe it. Lol. I believe it's on Hulu.
P.S.
I'm not saying that the drama is based on these events but seeing as it is about two people who fall in love and who were both victims of a building called the S Mall collapsed while the building that collapsed in real life is the Sampoong Mall, one could assume that the inspiration was the real S Mall, aka theSampoong Mall, collapse.
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P.S. The drama is kind of like how the titanic film was. The romance is the main focus while the tragedy is in the background.
Damn good thing i saw this comment. Now that when u think abour it, it really feels like that S Mall was like what happened in this Mall.
That drama was heavy and at the same time a calm one. I kept on crying for the few final eps
@@LMBF5744 Me too! I really enjoyed the drama.
And actually i dont even know why i even watched it in the first place cause i dont like heavy drama. But still ive watched it haha
@@LMBF5744 Same. I don't know how I even came across it. Lol.
i think it was partially based on it as the ML was the last one to be pulled out and the FL was the daughter of the construction worker(similar to the exec daughtr being left behind and saved later). it was a beautiful drama and its one of my favourites!!
It’s amazing this building stood for so long.. 500 lives lost unnecessarily. Rest In Peace. The owners should be in jail indefinitely..
I found out about this disaster because of a kdrama I watched, the neglect in this situation is beyond sickening. It reminds me of what the captain and most of the crew did during the sinking of the Sewol ferry. They told all those kids to stay put while they escaped knowing they weren’t going back to try and rescue them. Disgusting
I remember seeing this disaster on a program like "Seconds to Disaster" on Discovery Channel about 13 years ago!
Then it probably must be in UA-cam too. Gotta see if I can find it; that documentary series was very interesting.
omg i remember that
would feel haunted
living in those apartments
on that site
Yeah... I thought the same.
Omg Max is that you 😻
omg max
Watch the Taiwanese movie, “Silk”.
If you search up those apartments in korean, you'll apparently find Building A of the acrovista development had 20 workers die during the construction. Building A was built directly on the site of collapse. Building B and C were built on the bridge and carpark part of the building which didn't collapse, and didn't have any workers die during the contruction. Apparently Building A is also super haunted; lifts moving on their own, dogs barking at nothing, noises heard in particular on ground floor apartments, screaming in hallways etc.
This is an excellent example of why greed is 1 of the Seven Deadly Sin. Absolutely horrifying 💔😢
Just moved my grandma from a ninth floor apartment because of cracking in concrete and concerns about the building that I really thought she was being her typical self but now days after Miami im glad we moved her out now she's safe in a single level building
They should have added 10 years for every victim not 10 years total wtf!! Should have been sentenced for 5,000 years!!
I agree this is pretty much first class murder.
justice system deosnt give a fuck about us lol
I first learned about this disaster from the K-drama Reply 1994 but I never knew what caused it. Great video!
I saw that drama too and remembered this disaster because of it.
Is the Kdrama Just Between Lovers also inspired by this disaster?
Me too,and all of them thought that Najeong and Chilbong were there
@@AliceInSuburbia Yup, it is
Okay who wants to live in a hi rise apartment building in a country where 4% of their hi rises are compliant with code , over top the remains of dead from a mall collapse , that was built over a land fill , sounds like luxury digs , No ?
Sadly, I have first hand experience of living in a very well-appointed high-rise condo in Manila (rent was paid by my company).....19th floor of a 32 floor structure. Every time there was a strong wind, the building would sway (quite noticeably). Very, very scary.........luckily, I was assigned back to the USA. Definitely not typhoon-proof (as Manila is prone). 😳😳😰 P.S. The Philippines is known for its corruption.
My dad worked a block next to this district. That entire "super fast high urban development" district of Seoul later revealed so many construction flaws and corruption that his company moved, massive reconstruction and restructuring projects were undertook, and much stricter regulations were actively enforced by the state. The mutual civil rage was unbelievably large and had a common enemy. This was a landmark incident in so many Seoulites' lives and the present state of construction and urban zoning of Korea. I'm sad that people don't talk about this much anymore, though. It's as if we moved away from it. There's now a high rise luxury apartment complex in the very ground zero of this mall. I bet it's haunted af
@@chochootrain ....unfortunately in a city such as Seoul, with 20 million people, the only choice is to build upward. I too would not want to live on a site that experienced a tragedy.
@@RumMonkeyable I can't comment on building standard in the Philippines, but high-rise buildings are designed to sway in high winds. I've worked in several tall buildings in the U.S. and have experienced some movement when the winds are strong. Sort of line buildings in earthquake zones.
@@RumMonkeyable Whats the name of that hi-rise building?
I was climbing out of the command heliport in Yongsan when this happened and I actually witnessed it from the air. It didn't make sense what I had seen until after I landed and heard it on the news.
There were entire city blocks of tall buildings that had to be torn down because the builders cheated and used beach sand that was full of salt instead of the quarry sand specified, and it ate away the rebar in the support structure. Those buildings would have collapsed also. There was overall corruption in the construction business and all of the city government was involved.
Interesting tidbit about this: There's a series of apartment blocks just behind the former site of the Sampoong Department Store. They're still called "Sampoong Apartments". If you know where to look in the nearby subway station, you can find them.
Those apartments must be fkn haunted
@@Slenderman63323 Since the apartments didn't suffer any damage from the collapse, they remained occupied and look no different from the other 189375692 apartment high-rises in Seoul.
4:24 Whoever was able to record this collapse deserves a medal for recording this event on time!
But at the same time, RIP to the victims
I am a forensic architect. I have a 35 year career engaged in forensic and building failure analysis. This is the first time I’m hearing about this. I am assuming there were no or completely corrupt building inspectors.
Heard this from my Korean student way back 2012. Another student's friend's mom was a victim. This was also referenced in one episode of the drama Reply 1994
there are apparently several k-dramas that also contain this disaster.. i recently watched the K-drama Chocolate in wich the main character actually ended up under the rubble as a child..
i just heard about this event today after watching a video where south koreans from different generations tell of the biggest things they remember from their time. when it came to the 90s, they mentioned this. so i looked it up and immediately thought of the drama Just Between Lovers. i wondered if it was based off of this event and it was! it’s a fantastic drama, but definitely very sad. the whole drama isn’t about the collapse of a mall but it’s apart of the two main characters’ backstories. and in the opening credits they even show images that look like other tragic events that happened in SK (a collapsed bridge, a sinking ferry).
Well done video of warning to all countries showing what I happen when you let greed and corruption to over take you.
Those people don't care.
This series you do is phenomenal.
So packed full of information!
Wow I’ve never even heard about this. I love how you explain the political and economic conditions in the country at the time (in addition to the really accessible explanations about the architecture and construction). Looking at the whole picture, this mall collapse was part of something much deeper and more complex. This is important because addressing those issues can often aid in ensuring that these truly horrific tragedies don’t happen again. Excellent work
It's gold rush time: sign the contracts, push out the work somehow, and collect the money, repeat. Happened in Japan too.
I was an Army Aviator in the ROK just after this happened. I saw the remains about a month afterwards from 1000' in altitude. It was horrible
As a mall lover, it scares me that had I been visiting Korea at that time I would have visited that mall
Mall lover?!
Especially big downtown department stores
as a what
OMG I cannot. 😱 I just cannot get over the unsupported slabs. Surely they did not think this building would last?
Thanks for editing! When I clicked I wasn't sure if I wanted to watch a video this long, but it moved along nicely. Good work.
Ironically this video found me a day after the condo building in Florida partially collapsed. I hope negligence and/or corruption is not the cause. 😔
How does this man only have 3.63 subs? This content is 1 mil sub type of stuff. Hope this channel see's a prosperous future, great video. This is a sad and upsetting story, but one we should be aware of.
I hope other people learned from this disaster to not cut corners.
It makes me wonder where else in the world such things have been done, and what disasters are still waiting to happen.
Yeah, it's worrisome to think of the corner cutting in other places where large buildings are over-stressed and under built for sure!
South Korean‘s quality had improved a lot.
@@alpzepta im not korean but from what i see the quality of what they make improved pretty much everywhere. remember hyundais in the 90's? now you can buy a korean car, appliance, etc. without worrying about it disintegrating after a few years (except for samsung 🔥 )
Grenfell Tower in London comes to mind.
May I introduce you to History's Modern Marvels: Engineering Disasters...?
The largest deadliest structural collapse in US was the Hyatt walkway that killed 114.
That those people are still allowed to work ANYWHERE is unnerving.
How did I live in Korea for 4 years, learn the language, and still never hear about this? I thought SEWOL ferry disaster was the biggest corporate caused tragedy in Korea's history. I knew there was major corruption there, but I didn't realise this had happened in Seoul!
And just 3 days ago, an apartment on Florida collapsed with very similar fashion
I learned abt this after watching “just between lovers” kdrama. Another drama mentioning this incident is “move to heaven”
Isn't this tragedy also portrayed in "Reply 1994"?
@@debitaistifadah yup…
“For the love of money is the root of all evil, and some, whose hearts were fixed on it, have been turned away from the faith and been wounded with unnumbered sorrows.” 1 Tim. 6:10
Feels like you beat "Fascinating Horror" to the punch on this one. Well done!
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Not Well There's Your Problem though!
This is disaster & it’s eerily similar to the disastrous building collapse in Florida about a week ago. I wonder how many more of these buildings are on the verge of collapse worldwide? Old bridges, viaducts and tunnels are in desperate need of repairs or replacement too!
A few years ago something similar happened in my own country. The shopping mall's ceiling collapsed because some idiot decided that they need a park on top of the roof.
Now what happened in US. An 40-year old apartment building collapsed. I really hope people will learn from other countries experiences and do their job properly, without any shortcuts.
Nah people don't learn.
the aparmnt one seems to be double whammy of not enough safty factor combined with no maintnce to the pooldeck
I remember reading about this years ago, and the level of corruption just disgusted me to a level I never thought possible.
Dude you killed this. Never saw the original. You need to do more construction disaster videos. Look at the views you got.
I saw this as a kid on I think Nat Geo or the Discovery channel but its interesting to revisit this tragedy again as it sheds new light on what happened especially being older now.
As someone with 0 prior understanding of engineering and building structure I wasn't expecting to fully understand why the collapse happened but this was so well explained
Well this got recommended to me again, because of Miami
I really, really thought you were going to say 2% were found to *not* meet standards. Damn!!!
This is horrifying. As someone who lives in South Korea, this is sadly something that doesn’t surprise me 😔
Ah. . . this kind of disaster does not happen very often in South Korea. I wonder what made you think that way.
@@wahrebeobachter I live in Korea, been here over 15yrs. The construction quality here leaves one to think that a disaster like this is not surprising
@@Medichio Eh. . . whuattt? Just tell me how many accidents you know that has happened like this in S.Korea. 15년 살면서 어느 건축의 어느 부분이 그렇게 생각하게 만들었는지도, 좀. 현재는 어느 나라에 살고 있는지도.
@@wahrebeobachter sewol ferry
@@natalkak.9622 That's not a building breakdown case. The comment states about how bad S.Korea is in construction. What made him think that and why did the comment above telling that it does not suprise him get more than 100 likes?
Your channel deserves way more views. Incredibly well made, and I wish it was longer. I like more content.
Wow, thanks Karl... It's humbling and inspiring to hear!
This was a good coverage of this story . It is so so heartbreaking 😭.No integrity caused people to lose their lives .💔
You have covered it sufficiently .Kudos to you 👏🏻👏🏻
I was in Seoul and my friends was there when it happened and had just moved to the other section which did not collapsed. He stayed to help survivors until late that evening...I got the news straight from him. A last survivors had come out after 14 days from under the rubbles. That was the year of disasters, in Korea!