9 days stuck underground at a depth of 200 meters

A new life has been written for two South Korean miners after they were rescued from the collapse of the zinc mine they worked in, leaving them without food or water for nine days at a depth of 200 metres.

Korean media said the two men, aged between 62 and 56, were trapped nearly 200 meters underground on October 26, with no way to escape.

They were also without water or food, and their drinking water was limited to drops that were collecting to fall from the ceiling of one of the columns.

But fortunately for them, the miners also had 30 packets of instant coffee powder that also contained powdered sugar and cream, providing the miners with energy to survive.

The two workers added what they had collected from the groundwater to the mixture and drank it, according to the Korea Times.

The two men were found last Friday, nine days after the mine collapsed, and they were in surprisingly good condition.

And the South Korean Yonhap News Agency reported that rescuers helped them out and they were admitted to hospital, where they are recovering quickly.

Their survival was greeted with warmth, especially as it came less than a week after the death of 156 people in a large crowd celebrating Halloween in the capital, Seoul.

Emergency workers had dug a hole in the mine - located in the northeastern region of Ponghwa - so they could insert a small camera to locate the two men.

After initial failed attempts to find the workers, rescuers found them trapped and pulled them over on November 4.

And they were discovered, according to the "Vice Us" website, while they were sitting shoulder to shoulder for heating, and they had set up a tent made of plastic around them, and they also lit a fire inside a heating tunnel.

In an interview with Yonhap News Agency, one of them said that he had nightmares about the accident, but at the same time, "I feel like I've been born again and live in this world for the first time."

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