- 296
- Episodes
- 16
- Transcribed
- 1,697
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2015
- First episode
About Disaster Area
A podcast about disasters throughout history - what caused them, how people survived, and how we've responded to keep those disasters from happening again.
- Publisher
- Jennifer Matarese
- Category
- history · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 31 Dec 2015
- Latest episode
- 24 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
16 of 296 episodes have a transcript.
24 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Episode 271: The Sampoong department store collapse
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Episode 270: The Nika riots
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Episode 269: The 1972 Black Hills flood
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Episode 271: The Sampoong department store collapse
Published 24 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And his son received seven years. But there were only two parts of a larger web of corruption running through the Sampung Company and through local officials. Nearly two dozen others would be convicted of corruption following the investigation into the Sampung disaster. One of them was a city official who was bribed with something like $15,000 American to kind of look the other way in terms of things that were going wrong. in the department store, as I understand it. So some of the people that were arrested in this web of corruption were local city employees who had pulled strings and looked the other way to allow this store to continue operating. […]
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.0 / 5
- 802 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.2 / 5
- 895 ratings
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