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1973 Photo Contest, Spot News, Singles, 2nd prize
Photographer

Park Tae-hong

Hankook Ilbo Daily

01 January, 1972

A six-year-girl is launched from a third floor window during a fire at the Seoul Citizens Hall. The girl was rescued but fifty people were killed in the fire that spread through the building in just twenty minutes.

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