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Not long after it snowed yesterday (6th), the metropolitan area turned white like a frozen kingdom.

As cars stopped on the road, they were tied up with a snowplow that had to be cleared of snow, and disaster texts didn't come on time, and people had to spend hours on the road.



Reporter Han So-hee reported on why the response was so late that the city was paralyzed.



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Last night, a phone call to the local government's civil petition office to clear the snow hit.



[Han Sang-hee/Gangnam-gu, Seoul: We (pushing tea) about two and a half hours…

I was so angry I called.

Even if I go to Gangnam-gu Office, but there is a lot of calls, I can't connect.] I couldn't



wait and found a snow removal box myself, but it was useless.



[Kim Hyang-suk/Gwanak-gu, Seoul: I tried to sprinkle calcium chloride in the snow removal box, but there is no trace of putting it in the bucket at all.] The



city ​​of Seoul did not prepare for the possibility of heavy snowfall, but took pre-spray measures of calcium chloride.



[Seoul City officials: When the call was issued at 4 o'clock, the Meteorological Administration drew a picture of snow on the weather forecast as it snowed less than 4 cm.] The



Meteorological Administration has already issued a heavy snow preliminary warning by forecasting a maximum of 8 cm snow in Seoul at 11 am. I even informed the Seoul city over the phone.



Nevertheless, the city of Seoul did not wait in advance for snow removal vehicles in the freezing section.



Snowplows that were dispatched belatedly were trapped in vehicles on their way home from work.



[Gangnam-gu office official: (Dosan-daero, Teheran-ro, etc.) I didn't spray it in advance.

I went out to sprinkle, but I got trapped because of traffic jams and things like that.

The snowplow vehicle.] The



disaster text was sent only around 8:28 pm, when it was already snowing, and it was said to be prepared for congestion on the way to work the next day.



The police also responded late.



If the estimated snowfall exceeds 5cm, it is necessary to switch to emergency work and reinforce manpower, but additional deployments have only been made this morning.



In the midst of this, the Seoul Metropolitan Government has decided to extend the intensive dispatch of public transportation by 30 minutes until tomorrow.



(Video coverage: Choi Woong Choi, Joo Yongjin, Video editing: Choi Eunjin, VJ: Lee Junyoung)