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Sampoong Department Store Injustice
This morning I thought about a documentary that I had seen a few years ago on the Sampoong Department Store collapse in South Korea and I decided to look it up. Well I read about it on Wikipedia and found out all the details to this horrible accident. I’m not surprised that people would buy off officials and fire legitimate contractors so that they can cut spending to increase profits - it’s all part of capitalism. It’s still appauling though, especially since the chairman of the building Lee Joon and the store’s president (also his son *surprise surprise*) Lee Han-Sang barely got any prison time. 500 people died from this accident and all they got were 10 years and 7 years respectively. Seriously?! That is bullshit. They probably bought off the judges too.
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