BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: But first we'll have a look back at a scene of total destruction five years ago on this day in Seoul, South Korea.</s>SOHN JIE-AE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: The San Pun (ph) department store collapsed around 6:00 in the evening on June 29, 1995. It was jam packed with housewives who were there to shop for their dinner. This five-story pink department store collapsed from the fifth floor on down like a house of cards, almost instantly. It killed more than 500 people. It injured almost a thousand. It was a scene of total destruction, it was chaotic, it was hellish. It was people being taken out, you know, bleeding, and being hurt. And there were people trying to find other people, their family members that could have been -- that could be buried in the rubble. It was a chaotic scene reminiscent of a war zone. There were these young people that were being rescued who had survived and so there was hope for something better, there was hope for the future. The investigation into the cause of the San Pun department store collapse found out that the department store, the structure of the department store, could not endure the weight of the department store itself and the additional facilities that the owners of the department store had built onto the department store.
CNN 20: Dept. Store Collapsed in Seoul, June 29, 1995