Thirty years ago today, on June 29th, 1995 (June 2nd, 1995 in the lunar calendar), the Mitutoyo Department Store in South Korea collapsed. Collapse of Mitutoyo Department Store in South Korea At 6 o'clock on the afternoon of June 29th, 1995, the northern half of Mitutoyo Department Store, with 5 floors above ground and 4 floors underground in the center of Seoul, suddenly collapsed, killing 94 people, injuring 915 people and missing 220 people on the spot, causing great shock in South Korea. Since 1993, major sea, land and air accidents have occurred frequently in South Korea: trains overturned, planes crashed, passenger ships sank, and disasters continued. The Mitutoyo Department Store, which happened on June 29th, had long been leaking and vibrating. On the day of the accident, the floor cracked and sank. However, the department store still ignored the danger of the accident, only paid attention to making money, and did not evacuate customers and closed its business. In recent years, there have been many man-made disasters in South Korea: on March 28th, 1993, a fast train derailed in Busan in the southeast, killing 79 passengers. Investigators believe that underground blasting and cable laying at the accident site caused the main train track connecting Seoul and Busan to sink. On October 10, 1993, a ferry sank on the west coast of South Korea, becoming the worst shipwreck in Korean history. A total of 292 people died and 70 survived. At the time of the incident, the ferry, which can only carry 207 passengers, had more than 360 people on board. Afterwards, President Jin Yongsan dismissed the Minister of Communications and the Director of the Maritime and Port Administration. On October 21, 1994, the central pier of the Han River Bridge in Seoul collapsed during peak hours, causing multiple vehicles to fall into the Han River, including a bus full of passengers. The incident killed 32 people. On November 20th, 1994, a footbridge in Seoul collapsed after being hit by an overloaded truck, killing two people and injuring eight others. On December 7, 1994, an underground gas explosion occurred in a busy commercial and residential area in downtown Seoul, killing 12 people and burning several residential and commercial buildings. On April 20, 1995, a powerful gas explosion occurred at a ground car construction site in Daegu, the third largest city in South Korea, killing more than 100 people and injuring 143 others. Many of the dead were young people in their teens.