Korea’s Death Mall - 502 Dead & 40 Missing Inside High End Department Store

When the employee said to Michael "I think I'm going to go now, please tell my family I love them" I got literal chills. So tragic.

I always hate that the rescuers get ptsd and have intense guilt and these powerful people who are responsible for the disaster act so indifferent. UNBELIEVABLE

straight up if u have a kid and they start pointing at someone who is invisible, bleeding, and telling them to leave; you leave. u take the kid and run.

“I think I’m gonna go now” That broke my heart, I legit started crying

I was actually working in Korea at the time. My student was upset that I ended class late that day. He returned the next day thanking me because he was supposed to go to that department store but was late. He narrowly escaped being crushed. It was a true tragedy. Everyone was glued to the TV trying to see who would be rescued, if any.

7 years in prison is absolute crap. This man literally MURDERED 502 people. Someone can kill a single person and get 15 years and prison, this guy can commit FIVE HUNDRED AND TWO murders and get 7. This is extremely unacceptable given the fact it is completely his and his family’s fault.

My dad was supposed to meet someone for a meeting over coffee in that mall. He was on his way to leave for the meeting when he received an email saying that there was a change of plans, the meeting was going to be at a different location in the opposite direction of the mall. If it wasn't for the email, my dad could've been a victim himself. I could've never been born. It's crazy to think about how my dad's fate was determined by a mere email. Korea still needs to change many of their laws in regards to white collar crimes so that tragedies like these never happen in the first place.

The fact the government wouldn’t let them have a memorial at the site or park is absolutely insane and there is no way I’d wanna have anything to do with that building that was built in the same place.

When you said they began moving valuable items out 4 hours before the collapse, rather than getting the people to leave, that actually made me gasp. They were concerned enough to get their valuables out, but not the people. It just shows you how little regard the Lee family had for human life. Absolutely despicable.

The fact that the owners decided to remove all the expensive stuff from the building but not evacuate just goes to show how little they cared about people's lives

What you said about the rescuers morale reminded me of how the rescue dogs used after 9/11 got so depressed because they were finding so many dead bodies and almost no survivors that some of the first responders started pretending to be bodies in the rubble and letting the dogs find them just to give the dogs a “win”, while surrounded by so much death.

The air conditioning wasn't actually broken. The vibrations of the roof units were putting additional stress on the structure and causing the visible cracks in the walls/ceiling to expand quicker, so management decided to turn them off... on their way out.

I was here in Seoul when the department store collapsed. I remember that between the initial rescues and Mr. Lee's rescue, they found a female survivor (around 7-8 days after the collapse, I think.). Rescuers tried to get her to an ambulance, but photographers blocked the way as they jostled each other to get the best shot. The survivor died on the way to the hospital because of these jackals who slowed her transport to the ambulance and to the hospital.

My grandma is actually a survivor from this incident so this case really does hit close to home. I can’t imagine I almost lost my grandma over some calculating cheapness.

For anybody wondering; Trapped 11 days: Choi Myeong-seok Trapped 13 days: Yu Ji-hwan Trapped 17 days: Park Seung-hyun

Dude, the families trying to find their loved once in the rubble at the dump sight actually made me cry. I am so sorry for the mothers,fathers,sisters,brothers,uncles,aunts,grandpas,grandma's, ANYONE who lost someone they loved.

My mom was there the day before the mall collapsed when she was pregnant with me. It’s scary to think what could’ve happened.

They killed 502 people and they get 7 years? Horrible. I can’t even imagine being an attorney and defending this before going to sleep with myself. Gross. Edit: EVERYONE in the comments are telling me I shit on the attorney. First of all I said that I personally couldn't do it myself. And second of all, apparently defending murder is only ok when you are being paid to do it? Attorney's are cool but not when it's about telling the family of 502 people that lost their life due to negligence and greed that what their murderer did was "not a big deal" fight in the reply I guess.

I had the mindset of “it wouldn’t happen to me” or “ it wasn’t my family “ but after hearing alot of story’s this one kinda made me realize to have more compassion for other people’s lost.

“This is one of those thing you always figure will happen to someone else” “Unfortunately, we’re all ‘someone else' to someone else”