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Lee Joon, 10.5 years in prison (later reduced to 7.5 years) Lee Han-sang, 7 years in prison. On June 29, 1995, the Sampoong Department Store ( Korean: 삼풍백화점; Hanja: 三豐百貨店) in Seoul, South Korea, collapsed due to a structural failure. The collapse killed 502 people and injured 937, making it the largest peacetime disaster in ...
3,400/km 2 (8,700/sq mi) Myeong-dong[ a] ( Korean : 명동; Hanja : 明洞; lit. 'bright neighborhood') is a dong (neighborhood) in Jung District, Seoul, South Korea between Chungmu-ro, Eulji-ro, and Namdaemun-ro . Myeongdong is known for being one of Seoul's main shopping, parade route, and tourism districts. [ 1] In 2023, it was listed as the ...
Times Square(Korean: 타임스퀘어) is a shopping mall in Seoul, South Korea. [2][3][4]It is one of Seoul's largest shopping malls, featuring the CGV Starium, the world's largest permanent 35 mmcinema screen. [5] Times Square mall contains a department store, a multiplex theater, a shopping mall and many restaurants. It also has an urban ...
Scoring one is like winning the lottery. Max Kim. May 7, 2024 at 3:00 AM. Kim Do-yeon, a new tenant for the $7 apartment for youths, stands inside her room in Dongjak district in Seoul. The studio ...
Downtown Seoul's incomparable status as historic and political center of the Seoul, can also be found by most of symbolic protests happened in contemporary history of South Korea. [ 28 ] : 245–246 June Democratic Struggle in 1987, [ 29 ] protest against import of US beef in 2008, [ 30 ] and protests around impeachment of Park Geun-hye in 2017 ...
Gwanghwamun Square (also known as Gwanghwamun Plaza; Korean: 광화문광장) is a public square on Sejongno, Jongno-gu, Seoul, South Korea. Serving as a public space and at times road for centuries of Korean history, it is also historically significant as the location of royal administrative buildings, known as Yukjo-geori or Street of Six Ministries; and features statues of Admiral Yi Sun ...
Seoul. Ulsan. v. t. e. The districts of Seoul are the twenty-five gu ("districts"; hangeul: 구; hanja: 區) comprising Seoul, South Korea. The gu vary greatly in area (from 10 to 47 km 2) and population (from less than 140,000 to 630,000). Songpa-gu is the most populated, while Seocho-gu has the largest area. Gu are similar to London 's or New ...
03000~03299. Area code. 02-300,700. Website. Jongno-gu official website. Bosingak bell pavilion. Jongno District ( Korean : 종로구 ; RR : Jongno-gu) is a district ( gu) in Downtown Seoul, South Korea. It is the historic center of Seoul, and contains the Joseon-era royal palace Gyeongbokgung and the former presidential residence, the Blue House .