World IN BRIEF : SOUTH KOREA : A Few Feet Separate Living and the Dead
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
For the two shopping mall saleswomen, the difference between life and death was just a few feet. Yoo Ji Hwan, 19, was found alive and surprisingly healthy twelve days after the June 29 collapse of the Sampoong Department Store, having survived on rainwater. Three feet away, the body of her 20-year-old co-worker, Lee Suk Yong, was discovered. Yoo was the 26th person pulled alive from the debris. More than 200 people died, and about 220 more are missing.
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