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Yesterday (8th) in Gwangju, the ossuary was submerged. All the ashes in the basement were locked, and the bereaved families waited all night to receive the ashes. The bereaved family exclaimed that this would not have happened if they had been informed of the flooding early.

This is reporter Baek Woon.

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hoses that run across the corridor are connected to the underground floor submerged in muddy water.

Where the water is drained, the crypts appear.


The unsubmerged floor office is full of ashes that were managed to rescue from the basement.

As the basement floor of the crypt in Dongrim-dong, Buk-gu, Gwangju, where heavy rain poured yesterday, was submerged in water, about 1,800 remains that were in storage were locked.

The bereaved family members who confirmed the time when the water was filled with CCTV burst into resentment, asking why they did not inform them sooner.

[If I had contacted you at this time, it wouldn't have been all!] The

bereaved families said that the Ossuary's representative was notified by text only at 9:30 last night, when the fact that the flood was already known, mainly on local social media.

[Family victims: Only one text message came at 9:34 pm. I am now texting due to an electrical outage. Sorry for the worries.] The

drainage work was finished today, but there was a long line of bereaved families trying to bring the ashes in front of the ossuary hall all day long, and the bereaved families holding the ashes were busy checking if there was any water.


As the bereaved's protests that they did not inform them of the flooding in time continued, the ossuary decided to cremate all the remains that had been submerged in the water and pay the full cost of the damage recovery, such as making the remains.

(Video coverage: Son Young-gil KBC, video editing: So Ji-hye)