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Site of Fire in Seoul's Shantytown

This photo, taken Oct. 28, 2026, shows the village of Guryong, one of the last remaining s...

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A fire broke out in the Guryong community in Gangnam District, Seoul, affecting 107 people from 77 households. More than 200 firefighters were deployed before the blaze was brought under control after nearly 13 hours.

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[Ddangjipgo] On the 27th, a fire broke out in ‘Guryong Village,’ a shantytown located in Seoul’s expensive Gangnam-gu. Although approximately 230 firefighters successfully extinguished the flames after a struggle lasting about 13 hours, the houses, constructed from flammable materials such as so-called ‘tteoksom’ (insulating cotton), plywood, and vinyl, were completely destroyed by the fire, leaving around 100 residents homeless. Whenever a fir…

[NEWSIS] A fire that broke out in Guryong Village, a densely populated shantytown in Gaepo-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, was completely extinguished approximately 13 hours later. According to fire authorities on the 28th, the large fire in Guryong Village subsided at 2:21 AM that day and was completely extinguished at 4:39 AM. The Level 1 alert was also lifted. This comes approximately 12 hours and 50 minutes after the fire broke out at around 3:49 P…

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The Straits Times broke the news in Singapore, Singapore on Tuesday, October 27, 2026.
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