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Jan 25, 2018 Fire Kills at Least 41 People at South Korea Hospital Chloe Sang-hun On Friday, a fire at a hospital in the southern city of Miryang near Seoul, South Korea killed at least 41 people and injured 70 or more. Due to lack of high safety standards and a fast-aging population, South Korea is struggling to keep incidents like these from happening as they create more and more hospitals and nursing homes to cater to the people in their country. As the demand for nursing homes goes up, their safety standards go down. A fatal fire cost 40 or more people their lives, and 70 or more serious injuries. It happened in Miryang on Friday, January 19th. Sadly, this is not unheard of in South Korea. In fact, because there is an imbalance in supply and demand - demand being the fast-aging community and supply being the amount of nursing homes - South Korea is lacking in their public safety standards. That lack of standards is causing incidents like this one to happen more frequently and without warning for those who have disabilities or are simply less capable because of an injury or age. Within the past few years, many fires like this one have started in hospitals, endangering the lives of many patients. President Moon Jae-in took steps to help by responding and re-evaluating, and Prime Minister Lee Nak-yon sent equipment and supplies to Miryang. Mr. Moon also vowed to raise safety standards and has taken steps forward to help and become proactive. I am hopeful that South Korea's government will follow through on their promise of safety standards rising. I do also believe baby steps will need to be taken and it will be a challenge to balance quantity and quality, supply and demand. I think the people of South Korea are expecting a lot of improvement as they should be, but they also need to realize it will take time and there will be setbacks. I will be commenting on Jeremy and Angeline's blog posts.
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