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huffdaddy
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 Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2008 7:13 am Post subject: Fire in Icheon - 40 dead |
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Tragic.
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SEOUL, South Korea - Fire tore through a refrigeration warehouse under construction in an industrial district south of the capital Monday, killing 40 people and sending toxic fumes into the air, officials said.
Kim Jung-geun, a local fire official, said no more bodies were expected to be found at the site of the blaze in Icheon about 50 miles south of Seoul.
He said the exact cause of the morning fire was not known, but that workers were injecting urethane foam into basement walls when the fire started.
Kim said explosions heard around the time of the fire were caused by the blaze itself. He also said only one body had been positively identified so far, because the corpses were so badly burned.
Ha Jae-ho, a fire investigator, told YTN that firefighters and rescue officials were searching the wreckage carefully because they feared the building might collapse.
Cable news channel YTN showed black-clad firefighters battling thick black, brown and white smoke, some of it spewing from underground.
An official at Korea 2000, a logistics company that owns the facility, said the building was under construction and was intended for refrigeration purposes.
The official said workers were applying the final touches when the fire broke out. The official requested anonymity, saying company rules prohibit employees from speaking to the media.
Icheon, a crossroads for South Korea's largest highways, is home to Hynix Semiconductor, the world's second-largest manufacture of computer memory chips. |
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JungMin
Joined: 18 May 2005
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| Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2008 8:05 am Post subject: |
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| I was in Icheon today shopping for gifts at the ceramic village......My lungs and eyes were burning from the fumes. I didn't know what it was, but it wasn't very nice on the eyes or lungs!!! |
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chris_J2
Joined: 17 Apr 2006
Location: From Brisbane, Au.
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Cheonmunka
Joined: 04 Jun 2004
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| Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2008 3:01 pm Post subject: |
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| It's not fair, eh. Due to the negligence of someone (or from a compounding of errors) so many die. |
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mistermasan
Joined: 20 Sep 2007
Location: 10+ yrs on Dave's ESL cafe
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| Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2008 3:04 pm Post subject: |
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| condolences to the grieving. |
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kiwiduncan
Joined: 18 Jun 2007
Location: New Zealand
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| Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2008 3:11 pm Post subject: |
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| Passions wrote: |
| Korean Sparkling. Literally. |
40 people (people's fathers, mothers, sons or daughters) are killed in a fire and all you can do is make some distasteful, sick and facetious comment?
You are a complete arsehole Passions.
I know I make some fairly critical comments about Korean society and politics from time to time, but it beggars belief what some of the utterly viscious, spiteful and pointless commentators on this website think they can get away when hiding behind a nickname.
Duncan Davidson
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jeffkim1972
Joined: 10 Jan 2007
Location: Mokpo
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| Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2008 4:08 pm Post subject: |
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| kiwiduncan wrote: |
| Passions wrote: |
| Korean Sparkling. Literally. |
40 people (people's fathers, mothers, sons or daughters) are killed in a fire and all you can do is make some distasteful, sick and facetious comment?
You are a complete arsehole Passions.
I know I make some fairly critical comments about Korean society and politics from time to time, but it beggars belief what some of the utterly viscious, spiteful and pointless commentators on this website think they can get away when hiding behind a nickname.
Duncan Davidson
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That's the type of person you should start expecting on these boards Duncan. It is more the norm than the exception. |
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reactionary
Joined: 22 Oct 2006
Location: korreia
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| Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2008 4:35 pm Post subject: |
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한국사람이waygooks을 미워하는 까 왜 경이.
The Korean hates the waygooks to peel, why wondering. |
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caniff
Joined: 03 Feb 2004
Location: All over the map
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| Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2008 4:37 pm Post subject: |
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| enomshiki wrote: |
| Passions wrote: |
| Korean Sparkling. Literally. |
no wonder why koreans hate waygooks. |
They do? Then should we just leave? |
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d-rail
Joined: 04 Jan 2006
Location: Gangnam
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| Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2008 4:43 pm Post subject: |
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| kiwiduncan wrote: |
| Passions wrote: |
| Korean Sparkling. Literally. |
40 people (people's fathers, mothers, sons or daughters) are killed in a fire and all you can do is make some distasteful, sick and facetious comment?
You are a complete arsehole Passions.
I know I make some fairly critical comments about Korean society and politics from time to time, but it beggars belief what some of the utterly viscious, spiteful and pointless commentators on this website think they can get away when hiding behind a nickname.
Duncan Davidson
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thank you for this. it is really disgusting too see how incompassionate people can be when they dont have any accountability for what they say. if this were Passions home town and people from his community i doubt he would say something like that. i understand that people get very cynical sometimes when living overseas, but its disappointing to see how tactless people can be. |
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Suwoner10
Joined: 10 Dec 2007
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| Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2008 4:46 pm Post subject: |
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| Passions wrote: |
| Korean Sparkling. Literally. |
Awesome. |
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caniff
Joined: 03 Feb 2004
Location: All over the map
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| Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2008 4:47 pm Post subject: |
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| Passions, can you send me your resume so I can add you to the 'Do Not Hire' list? |
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Roch
Joined: 24 Apr 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2008 4:58 pm Post subject: |
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| jeffkim1972 wrote: |
| kiwiduncan wrote: |
| Passions wrote: |
| Korean Sparkling. Literally. |
40 people (people's fathers, mothers, sons or daughters) are killed in a fire and all you can do is make some distasteful, sick and facetious comment?
You are a complete arsehole Passions.
I know I make some fairly critical comments about Korean society and politics from time to time, but it beggars belief what some of the utterly viscious, spiteful and pointless commentators on this website think they can get away when hiding behind a nickname.
Duncan Davidson
That's a lie!
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That's the type of person you should start expecting on these boards Duncan. It is more the norm than the exception. |
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Roch
Joined: 24 Apr 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2008 4:59 pm Post subject: |
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| enomshiki wrote: |
| as long as they were waygooks, it's all cool. |
You're taking your job as a Korean Netizen far too seriously. |
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Roch
Joined: 24 Apr 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2008 5:04 pm Post subject: |
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| jeffkim1972 wrote: |
| kiwiduncan wrote: |
| Passions wrote: |
| Korean Sparkling. Literally. |
40 people (people's fathers, mothers, sons or daughters) are killed in a fire and all you can do is make some distasteful, sick and facetious comment?
You are a complete arsehole Passions.
I know I make some fairly critical comments about Korean society and politics from time to time, but it beggars belief what some of the utterly viscious, spiteful and pointless commentators on this website think they can get away when hiding behind a nickname.
Duncan Davidson
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That's the type of person you should start expecting on these boards Duncan. It is more the norm than the exception. |
Liar! |
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