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All posts tagged "disaster"

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  [Guardian] Learning from Seoul’s Sampoong Department Store disaster – a history of cities in 50 buildings

    Observers tend to describe the rise of South Korea as a miracle, and the actual story makes the word seem only a minor exaggeration. Having emerged an utter wreck from the Korean War in...

  • Posted May 29, 2015
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  S. Korea sends 32 more aid workers to quake-hit Nepal

  SEOUL, May 1 (Yonhap) — A group of South Korean aid workers departed for Nepal Friday to help ongoing rescue and aid efforts following last week’s deadly earthquake, the Foreign Ministry said. The team, comprised of 15...

  • Posted May 1, 2015
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  Greenpeace alleges 6 S. Korean nuclear reactors are in danger of disaster

  By Jung Min-ho Components in six of 14 of the South Korea’s 23 nuclear reactors were made with an ineffective material, which could cause an environmental disaster similar to that which occurred in Fukushima three years ago,...

  • Posted December 3, 2014
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  Sewol operator chief gets 10-year jail term

  GWANGJU (Yonhap) — A district court on Thursday sentenced the head of the sunken ferry Sewol operator to 10 years in prison for involuntary manslaughter in the deaths of more than 300 people. Kim Han-sik, chief executive...

  • Posted November 20, 2014
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  Gov’t announces end to search operations on sunken ferry

  SEOUL (Yonhap) — The government on Tuesday announced an end to its near seven-months-long search for people still missing in April’s deadly ferry sinking off the country’s southwest coast. The 6,825-ton ferry Sewol sank in waters near...

  • Posted November 10, 2014
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  National Assembly passes bills related to April ferry disaster

  SEOUL (Yonhap) — The National Assembly on Friday passed a package of bills aimed at preventing a disaster similar to April’s ferry sinking that left more than 300 people dead or missing. Last week, the ruling and...

  • Posted November 7, 2014
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  Ferry disaster blamed on cargo overloading, illegal redesign

  By Kim Han-joo SEOUL (Yonhap) — April’s deadly ferry sinking was caused by a combination of cargo overloading, an illegal redesigning of the ship to increase its cargo load and the steersman’s poor helmsmanship, the prosecution said...

  • Posted October 6, 2014
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