The Sampoong Department Store collapses in the Seocho District of Seoul, South Korea, killing 501 and injuring 937.
The Sampoong Department Store collapse (Korean: 삼풍백화점 붕괴 사고; Hanja: 三豐百貨店 崩壞 事故) was a structural failure that occurred on June 29, 1995, at the Sampoong Department Store in the Seocho-gu district of Seoul, South Korea. The collapse is the largest peacetime disaster in South Korean history, killing 502 people and injuring 937. It was the deadliest modern building collapse until the collapse of the World Trade Center in New York City, and the deadliest non-deliberate building collapse until the 2013 Dhaka garment factory collapse near Dhaka, Bangladesh.