2008 Icheon fire
On 7 January 2008, a fire occurred in Icheon, South Korea, killing 40 people. It happened at a warehouse that was under construction at a refrigerated goods facility and caused several explosions.
It was the deadliest fire in South Korea since the Daegu subway fire on 18 February 2003, which killed 192 people.
A fire in Icheon on 29 April 2020 killed 38 people.
