"“Endless Disaster, Disaster, Disaster,” declared one local headline in the wake of the Sampoong collapse. Not only ha…"

"The investigation into the tragedy revealed that, in addition to the not well thought out fifth floor addition, the b…"

"52 hours after the collapse, there was jubilation from the rescue workers and the families who had gathered around, a…"

"It was one of several man-made disasters that set off public hand-wringing over the human cost of South Korea's break…"

"Many of the casualties were women: sales clerks and housewives who had gone to the basement because the food departme…"

"The owner, Lee Joon, has been arrested and there are demands from relatives of missing family members that he be trie…"

"The collapse of the fashionable store was one in a series of disasters in South Korea that were attributed to inadequ…"

"From across the store there was a sound like a subway train entering a station, and when we heard that sound people s…"

"I can feel a hole in my head so large my finger can go through it, that’s how big it is. And I can feel something squ…"

"The hibakusha help us to describe the indescribable, to think the unthinkable, and to somehow grasp the incomprehensi…"