All posts tagged "building"

  • Rescue workers look for survivors in the debris at the construction site for a gymnasium in Sadang-dong, Seoul, Wednesday. Part of a roof collapsed, burying 11 workers. All the workers were safely rescued. (NEWSis)
    11 rescued from gym collapse in S. Korea

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — Eleven out of 12 workers buried under the debris of a collapsed gymnasium construction site were rescued while the search for the one missing worker was still under way, firefighters said Wednesday. The accident...

    • Posted February 11, 2015
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  • (Yonhap)
    Disaster avoided as unfinished building in Asan abruptly tilts

    By Kim Tong-hyung Future travelers were saved from a possible disaster on Monday when an unfinished hotel in Asan, Chungcheong Province, abruptly titled to one side, just two weeks before the building’s scheduled completion. Construction workers say...

    • Posted May 12, 2014
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