Popular Culture
- Park Chan-Wook depicted the greed capitalizing on the tragedy in his 1999 short film Judgement.
- The Sampoong Department Store collapse was depicted in the 2006 film, Traces of Love.
- It was also portrayed in a Blueprint for Disaster episode, as well as a Seconds from Disaster episode.
- The series finale of the SBS TV series Giant references the Sampoong Department Store collapse.
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Famous quotes related to popular culture:
“The lowest form of popular culture—lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people’s lives—has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.”
—Carl Bernstein (b. 1944)
“Popular culture is seductive; high culture is imperious.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)