On June 29, 1995, a collapse occurred in Sanfeng Department Store in Seoul, South Korea. All five floors collapsed within 30 seconds, causing 502 deaths and 937 injuries...
Today, Sanfeng Department Store has become a modern apartment building. However, as the predecessor of the department store accident, it also made it a gathering place for urban legends.
It is said that a man saw a group of people carrying the same paper bags in the parking lot when he got off work one day, rushing to go somewhere. He just thought it was strange at the time.
As a result, when he returned home, he described to his wife the Logo on the bag - three circles stacked into triangles. After hearing this, his wife exclaimed: That is the logo of Sanfeng Department Store!
The experiences of some survivors added a lot of mystery to the collapse incident. More than one netizen shared the strange things he encountered before the department store collapsed.
A netizen said that on the day of the collapse, she planned to go shopping with her family to buy clothes with her family, and had dinner with her father who was about to get off work. Since her family lives nearby, she decided to walk to Sanfeng Department Store. However, just when they were about to cross the road, a taxi suddenly blocked the front...
They also opened the car door unconsciously. After getting on the car, they changed their minds and decided to change their itinerary to another department store, intending to buy jeans there.
Another department store is very close to Sanfeng Department Store, so it arrived soon after. After getting off the bus, the taxi quickly disappeared. Netizens said that she didn't even hear the sound of the engine.
As soon as they entered the department store, they found that the employees were gathering together to discuss something. Later, they saw the news of the collapse of Sanfeng Department Store on TV in the home appliance area.
That happened a few minutes after they stepped into this department store. In other words, it was the mysterious taxi that saved them. As planned, it was unimaginable... .
Another mother took her daughter to Sanfeng Department Store for shopping, but her daughter suddenly started crying and kept clamoring to go home. The mother had no choice but to take her daughter away early.
After returning home, the mother saw the news of the collapse on TV... She asked her daughter in horror why she suddenly clamored to go home. Her daughter said that she saw many people strangled by a black rope there!
Life and death are alive, just like the survivor who missed the plane in the recent Egypt Airlines crash, maybe there is a certain number in the dark...
The collapse of the Sanfeng Department Store is an unprecedented tragedy in the history of Korean construction accidents, but the life miracle of some survivors has occurred, which is a blessing in disgrace.
Choi Mingxi (sound), a 21-year-old college student, was trapped in the ruins of Sanfeng Department Store. He ate the cardboard beside him for 9 days and was rescued by drinking rainwater dripping from the cracks of the rubble.
When the accident happened, Cui happened to go to the restaurant downstairs to have a meal. Suddenly he felt the building shaking and ran away, but the building collapsed suddenly and he hurriedly fell to the ground. The scene was pitch black and he felt difficult to breathe. Later he heard the moan of a woman from the ruins beside him.
The woman's name is Li and is a salesperson at Sanfeng Department Store. They have been encouraging each other. But just one day later, the woman could not hold on and died.
The most surprising thing is that at around 11 noon on July 15, the 17th day after the building collapsed, a worker operating a forklift was cleaning the ruins when suddenly a hole was found between a pile of twisted reinforced concrete slabs.
He stepped forward to check and was surprised to find Park Seung-hyun, a 19-year-old salesperson in the children's clothing department. After the hospital checkup, she was in very good condition except for the bruised and swollen scratch on her left knee.
According to Park Seung-hyun, when the accident happened, she was about to escape, but was hit by a falling hard object and fell into a coma.
When she woke up, she found that she was trapped in an inverted V-shaped space (here it is located underground on the elevator lifting hole on the second floor underground). She and a colleague nearby encouraged each other, but a few days later, her colleague unfortunately died, leaving her alone to support her.
Park Seung-hyun also told the doctor that he had never eaten anything during his trap, and had only drank a few drops of water. These few drops were caused by firefighters sprinkling a lot of water in order to make the disaster site. The only reason why Park Seung-hyun is still alive is the water sprayed by the search and rescue personnel to suppress the dust.
This water dripped along the gaps of the rubble, and Park Seung-hyun was sucking the moisture stained with the rag. Her survival surprised the doctor and everyone and exclaimed a miracle.
