<Anchor>
Not only in the metropolitan area, but also in Honam and the west coast where it snowed a lot, there were accidents large and small as it snowed heavily.
As snow piled up, some mountainous villages became completely isolated, and in the strong cold, some areas even froze to the sea.
Reporter Jung Joon-ho will deliver this information.
<Reporter>
A mountain village in Jangseong-gun, Jeollanam-do, was covered with snow.
Until today (7th), the road was cut off as more than 15cm of snow had accumulated in the area, and 26 households were isolated.
[Cho Seong-chae/village: I can't go anywhere, get sick, can't go to the hospital...
] On the
West Coast Expressway, an extreme congestion continued as the tank lorry, which slipped on snow, hit the central separator.
In Jeonju, where it snowed more than 11 cm, 25 city buses for 9 routes stopped running, causing great inconvenience to citizens.
[Jong-gyu Park/Palbok-dong, Jeonju: It usually takes 40 minutes, only 1 minute away, 40 minutes.
I haven't even been to half yet.]
Last night, in Sejong City, where 7.5cm of snow piled up, strong winds blew all over the place.
[It's completely upset, it's upset, this.
Siberia.
Siberia.] In the
mountain area of Jeju, where the cold wave warning was issued for the first time in 57 years, a scene of 25 cm of snow piled up on each hillside was produced.
In Cheorwon, Gangwon, where the temperature reached -25 degrees Celsius, Jiktang Falls turned into ice walls, and the cold wave that hit Busan also froze the seawater of Dadaepo Port.
As heavy snow and cold wave overlapped, 137 flights were canceled nationwide today alone, and more than 270 reports of freeze-breaking of meters were received.
(Video coverage: Jang Chang-gun KBC, Kim Yang-ho JTV, Oh Il-ryeong JIBS, video editing: Kim Jong-mi)
▶ On the way home from work that was like hell…
Throwing away the car and giving up on the
way
home.
Road congestion, subway delay