<Anchor>

South Korea suffered the worst water crisis, and the number of displaced people surpassed 54 million, more than the Korean population. In the heavy rain, there were huge sinkholes and ground off, and people walking on the road suddenly fell.

Correspondent Song Wook reports from Beijing.

<Reporter>

The sidewalk in Chongqing City in western China suddenly makes a loud noise and collapses.

Two women walking down the street fell down, but fortunately no major injuries occurred.


[Crash Citizen: The two of them walked and fell off. My feet were pressed against the stone, and I helped my sister clean it up from the side.] It

seems that the ground was weakened by the heavy rains that followed.

In Ernes City, Hubei, as the cars drifted into the rapids, the river became the grave of broken cars.

[Citizen of Ernescy: This time the loss is too big. Many cars have been floating.] For

the past two months, the rain has been on the Yangtze River basin for an average of 500 mm, and this is the highest amount of rainfall since 1961 when statistics began.


Already in the third flood of the Yangtze River this year, Sansha Dam's water level has risen to 163m, 12m below the highest level.

158 people have died or disappeared in this flood, and the number of victims is more than 50.81 million.

About 52,000 agricultural lands, half of Korea's total area, were submerged in water, and the property damage amounted to about 24,600 billion won.

[Anhui Provincial Merchant: The shops on this side are all gone, and the big store over there is almost 20 million yuan (3.4 billion won).]

China's meteorological authorities said that the rainy season in front of the Yangtze River will gradually stop, and the heavy rains on the Yangtze River basin will gradually cease. Forecast.

However, the Yangtze River's middle and downstream regions still have a lot of water flowing upstream, so it is not slowing down the tension.

(Video coverage: Deokhyun Choi, Video editing: Yonghwa Jung)