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[GoldMember]

I know this has been covered before, but again tonight on the National Geographic Channel, they screened the documentary about the Sampoong Department store collapse.
This is the scary part.
The government did a check of all buildings (late 1990's) and discovered:

One seventh of the country's high-rise buildings required rebuilding.
80% of the country's buildings required major repair work.
Only one in fifty of the country's buildings were deemed safe.
98% of the country's buildings were affected.

98% of ALL buildings built before the late 1990's were deemed unsafe. Given all the bribery and corruption here that may be higher.

These buildings were meant to be repaired. How do you repair a building with lousy concrete, missing columns, undersized columns, and missing reinforcing steel bars?

How do you fix 98% of all buildings in the country? It's an impossible task.

Did this repair work really happen? Was the repair work done properly or the usual Bali Bali dodgy job.

We all know, when it comes to corruption in Korea nothing really changes, are these dodgy buildings still being built?

All it takes is a decent size tremor, or Kim Jeong Il to order an underground test near the DMZ to make everything come tumbling down.