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Episode 36: Daeyeonggak Hotel Fire (대연각호텔 화재)
Christmas morning, 1971. Seoul's Daeyeonggak Hotel is full — more than three hundred guests and staff inside a gleaming twenty-two-storey tower in the heart of the city. At ten minutes to ten, a propane gas cylinder in the hotel coffee shop explodes. Within about ninety minutes, fire has climbed all the way to the sky lounge on the twenty-first floor. The tallest fire ladder in the country reaches the seventh. The rooftop door is locked. Before the day is over, at least 163 people are dead — and more than half a century later, it is still the deadliest hotel fire in recorded history. This is…
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