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More than 10,000 vehicles were flooded in the recent torrential rains in the metropolitan area.

How to identify a submerged vehicle was explained earlier.

This time, we looked at how a vehicle that has been submerged in water is handled.



Reporter Kim Jung-woo visited the junkyard where the amount of work increased.



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A junkyard in Hwaseong, Gyeonggi-do.



The dismantling of a submerged car is in full swing.



The inside of the engine compartment was covered with mud, and water gushed out whenever the underside of the car was torn off.



After all the décor is removed, the wheels and engine are removed, the steel itself is pressed into a flattening machine and the job is done.



Most of the removed parts are not usable even if they are washed away with soil and water, so only some of them are exported to desired countries.



[Lee Sang-jun / CEO of a car scrap company: We are continuing to scrap car through an insurance company.

It seems to have increased by 20% compared to the usual amount of work.

Parts and other things generated in the (disposal) process are being exported to Southeast Asia.]



It has been nearly two weeks since record heavy rain hit the metropolitan area, but the parking lot of Seoul Grand Park in Gwacheon, Gyeonggi-do is still full of damaged vehicles.



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Insurance companies check the condition one by one and decide the fate.



Even if there is no sign of submersion from the outside, if there are traces of water entering the intake, it is judged that the engine is also damaged, and the owner of the car is asked to choose whether to repair it or dispose of it after receiving insurance money.



[Woosung Jang/Samsung Fire & Fire employee: It is the upper part of the filter where air enters.

That part is wet.

It is the part that sucked in air and introduced water to the engine.]



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Also, if the pedal part is filled with water, there may be problems in the electric devices spread like spider webs under the car, so it is judged that the life of the car is over.

[Woosung Jang/Samsung Fire employee: If you say that the seat is flooded



up to the middle of the seat, it is better not to repair itself because there are more electronic parts.]



, make it available for inquiry on the Car History site.



It will take nearly two more weeks for insurers to process all 11,000 flooded vehicles.



(Video coverage: Kim Hak-mo, video editing: Kim Kyung-yeon)