Fire at COEX exhibition center put out after 2 hours

Fire at COEX exhibition center put out after 2 hours

A fire at the COEX exhibition center in southern Seoul was put out Friday two hours after it began, forcing some 1,200 evacuations, firefighting officials said. The fire broke out inside a restaurant on the second floor of the exhibition center. Firefighters responded to a fire report shortly after 11 a.m. and put out the main flames around 11:40 a.m. before completing extinguishing the blaze at 1:14 p.m., according to the officials. There were …

(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Choi Won-jeong = A fire broke out at COEX in Samseong-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul.

Fire Erupts At Korea's Famous COEX Mall

A fire occured recently at the famous COEX shopping mall in South Korea. No casualties have been reported thus far as the mall was evacuated.