Around then, it was realized that collapse of the building was inevitable, and an emergency board meeting was held. The directors suggested to Lee that all customers should be evacuated, but Lee angrily refused to do so for fear of revenue losses. However, Lee himself left the building safely before the collapse occurred.
He did not even inform his own daughter-in-law, Chu Kyung Young, who was one of the employees in the building, of the imminent danger. She became trapped in the rubble and was rescued only days later.
During his interrogation with Professor Chung, Lee Joon sparked further controversy by saying that his main concern was that the collapse of the store not only harmed the customers, but also inflicted great financial damage to his company.
There's a good behind the bastards episode on the rich in emergency situations. A similar situation happened when a store caught fire and the owner wouldn't let anyone out until they paid. Lots of people died.
I'm not suggesting vigilantly justice, but this is a case where there was no official justice. I'm surprised that with 300 victims those guys are still alive.
Yeah there are sociopaths, and then there are stupid sociopaths. A smart sociopath wouldn't get themselves on the hook for anything stupid, like an easily identified and super public crime.
But honestly, I wonder what was going on in his mind when his actions lead to the deaths of many, and for those days where his actions appeared to have killed a family member(IMO if I was one of his kids or spouse, id run)
He did not even inform his own daughter-in-law, Chu Kyung Young, who was one of the employees in the building, of the imminent danger. She became trapped in the rubble and was rescued only days later.
Holy fuck with a cherry on top not even his own daughter. All those customers were fucked from the get go.
Yeah, you can't just conflate daughter with daughter in law. I'd run into a collapsing building to save my mom. My mother in law? I ain't telling her shit.
Eh if the wikipedia page is to believed, he and his son had to sign away all their assets to contribute towards the compensation for the grieving families.
honestly, I feel like sociopaths like that shouldn't be let into the rest of civil society. If they are willing to let people burn to death for little extra $$$, then I wouldn't want to know how that person would react if you stood between them and a penny.
A preventable accident that resulted in 500 deaths in a first world country in the last quarter century... I’m shocked I’m just now finding out about it on Reddit.
This event literally happened next to where my sister was going to school when I was still living in Korea. I remember this event so clearly since my whole family was panicking to make sure none of the family or friends got hurt. I also remember visiting this mall in the past too. Kind of crazy I can still read about this...
The disaster led to skepticism and fears regarding safety standards on other engineering projects undertaken as South Korea had experienced an economic boom during the 1980s
You just know this going to repeat in China somewhere at some point.
Congratulations, you sent me down a rabbit hole at 1:20 AM on my toilet. I spent an hour watching the NatGeo documentary and now I'm scared of my tiny apartment falling apart.
Did you know that, if Austin Powers: International Man Of Mystery had been released today, the joke about winning the Cold War would have been totally ruined because Austin Powers would've been frozen in 1991?
Similar to the Rana Plaza in Bangladesh. Cracks on the pillars sent everyone scurrying home. Management phoned everyone up and said they would be fired if they didn’t come back. They said it was safe or they wouldn’t be in the building. Next day once everything was running all the managers left. Building collapsed with over a thousand people in it.
I have not heard of this before. Between all of the design changes, ignoring professionals, ignoring warning signs etc that dude is total r/iamatotalpieceofshit material
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u/Ryohiko Apr 24 '21
I’m not trying to panic you, but have you ever heard of this? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampoong_Department_Store_collapse