Lessons from Tragedy: The Sampoong Department Store and Rana Plaza Disasters
The collapse of South Korea’s Sampoong Department Store in 1995 and the Rana Plaza factory disaster in Bangladesh in 2013 are two of the deadliest incidents of structural failure in recent history. Both tragedies resulted in massive loss of life and exposed critical flaws in construction, safety oversight, and regulatory enforcement. They serve as cautionary…