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Yesterday (1st), there was a lot of snow in the Gangwon area.

In Misiryeong, there was heavy snowfall to the extent that over 75cm of snow accumulated.

It snowed so much, and cars crowded on the last day of the holiday yesterday, and highways and national highways literally turned into parking lots.

There are also people who stayed up all night in isolation in the snow last night.

Let’s connect reporter Kim Sang-min who is on the scene to see what’s going on right now.



Reporter Kim, there is a lot of snow piled up in the background. Where is the place you are now?



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Yes, my place right now is in front of the Western Tollgate on the Seoul Yangyang Expressway.



It's snowing a lot right now, and I'll show you how much snow has accumulated here.



If I go deeper like this, it has snowed so much now that my knees can go in at all.



Both to my right and to my left, I can see both sides of the car being buried in snow and unable to get out.



If you come a little further, you can't go out because there is a lot of snow between the cars, and you can see that high snow is piled up like that on the ceiling of the car.



Our reporters arrived here at around 1 am, and the citizens we met at around 1 am departed from Sokcho and arrived here at around 4 pm, but they have been unable to move for more than 12 hours now.



There were also citizens asking for some water to drink at the tollgate office over there because they were not able to bring water to drink because of complaints about why the road works snow removal was so late.



If so, didn't the snowplow come?

That's not it again.



A large snowplow arrived here around 2 am, and when we checked the snowplow, it was a snowplow that ran for about 6 hours from Goryeong, Gyeongsangbuk-do to Gangwon-do.



It seems that the snow removal equipment and the manpower situation were not good, and even though the snowplow came hard, it could not play its role in some sections where there was a lot of snow. The snow removal work was done by hand.



It is believed to be one of the reasons why snow removal takes such a long time.



Our coverage vehicle also went into a nearby side road and suffered a dizzying situation where it was isolated for about 2 hours due to snow. .