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Torrential rains battered many parts of Korea over the Children’s Day holiday, leaving one person dead.
More heavy showers are expected to fall nationwide this coming week as the monsoon front moves eastward across the peninsula, with flooding damage already reported in the country's central regions.
Torrential rains and strong gusts resulted in at least four more casualties as monsoon downpours wreaked havoc across the country before the weekend.
Korea’s weather authority on Sunday predicted that rain clouds will form above Gangwon and eastern Gyeonggi early Monday morning and quickly move southward throughout Thursday morning.
On Tuesday, a family who lived in a semi-basement apartment in Sillim-dong, southern Seoul were killed as heavy rainfall caused flashfloods.
As Korea tries to dry off from the weekend’s massive downpours, the country’s meteorologists warned that more rain is expected as one of the longest wet seasons on record shows no sign of stopping.
Korea JoongAng Daily Sitemap