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Emergency recovery work was carried out yesterday (7th) in the southern provinces affected by heavy rain. A man in his 70s who went missing in Jangheung, Jeollanam-do was found dead, and the number of people killed in the heavy rain has risen to three.
This is reporter Im Tae-woo.
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A traditional market in Iksan, Jeollabuk-do, where it rained close to 70mm in two hours and turned into a sea of water.
Abandoned furniture piled up layer by layer.
They sweep and wipe incessantly to drain the rainwater that has entered the store, but there is no end in sight.
[Jin Hyun-suk/Shoe store owner: Do you want to do business, now? Will you do business? I'm going crazy... Almost 70-80% of them are submerged in water.] In
Jindo, Jeollanam-do, where the water filled up to the chest, restoration work is in full swing for each house covered with garbage.
[Choi Sang-seop/Lee Jae-min: I woke up at 5 o’clock today too… If you see it, I did it anyway (recovery work). I can't do it because it's dark and I can't see it.]
A village in Gwangyang, Jeollanam-do, where a woman in her 80s died after being buried in a landslide.
I try to clean up the spilled soil, but the anxiety doesn't go away easily.
[Oh Jeong-hwan / Landslide victim villager: Now this is part of it. There's a big spot left here. Water is already seeping in here too.] The
police, who are investigating the cause of the accident, conducted a search and seizure of the Gwangyang City Hall and the construction company that had approved the housing construction.
In Jangheung, Jeollanam-do, a man in his 70s who went missing on the 6th to check whether the fields were submerged in water was found dead in the waterway.
Large and small soil spills continued in various places in Busan and Gyeongsangnam-do.
On the retaining wall of an apartment in Gimhae, Gyeongsangnam-do, a pile of dirt collapsed in the continuous rain, and a man in his 70s, who was swept away by the overflowing river water in Busan, was rescued.