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road conditions were so difficult, but I couldn't see the snowplow or the police who were clearing the traffic.

Although a cold wave warning has been issued to the snow forecast, citizens' complaints are rising to the authorities that have not responded properly.

Seoul City has decided to extend public transportation during rush hour until today (8th).



This news is from Sohee Han.



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



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

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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 in the weather forecast, as it snowed less than 4cm.] The



Meteorological Administration had already issued a heavy snow forecast at 11am, forecasting a maximum of 8cm snow in Seoul, I even informed the city of that by phone.



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



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 message was also sent at 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.



When the estimated snowfall exceeded 5cm, it had to be switched to emergency work and reinforced, but additional deployments were only made yesterday morning.



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