(Seeing in the winter and early six), December 27, 1995, the Korean heavy sentence the Sampoong "responsible for the accident. 27,,

1995 12 South Korea Seoul District Court to violate "specific crime aggravating law and the charges of professional negligence resulted in death, were sentenced of Mitutoyo Group president Li and Mitutoyo department store president IRON AND 10 years 6 months and 7 years in prison. June 29, 1995, located in the Seoul Seocho the Mitutoyo department store collapse accident occurred, causing the death of 502 people and 937 people were injured.
Court verdict said, Mitutoyo department store the collapse of the evil consequences of the spread of Korean society, the poor quality of construction and bureaucratic corruption, the 73-year-old Mitutoyo Group Chairman Lee and other defendants ignored the forced construction of the relevant provisions of the Building Act, bribes to civil servants and the pursuit of profit at the department store converted, leading to the disaster of the occurrence.
Court sentenced the person in charge of the two bribes Seocho of Li Zhong rain and Huangzhe Min 3 years and 2 years and 6 months imprisonment and fined 13 million won (about $ 17,000) and 12 million won ( about $ 16,000) fine. They were accused of accepting the same amount of bribes. (Today in History TodayOnHistory.com)
court also the accident construction company employees, civil servants have made a different judgment sentencing.