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Dark Files: Small Sparks — Four Korean fires where everything around the flame was the real danger
A propane cylinder carried in from the cold. A candle set down on a box of dynamite. A mosquito coil smoldering beside sleeping children. A few liters of gasoline in a plastic container. In every case in this collection, the thing that started the fire was small. What surrounded it was not. We begin on Christmas morning, 1971, at Seoul's Daeyeonggak Hotel — twenty-two storeys, no sprinklers, stairwells that worked like chimneys, and a locked rooftop door. The tallest ladder in the country reached about the seventh floor. At least a hundred and sixty-three people died, and a nation watched it…
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