<Anchor>
As the cold weather continued like this, freezes and power outages occurred one after another last night.
This news is reported by reporter Shin Jeong-eun.
<Reporter> The
underground parking lot of a department store in Hwaseong, Gyeonggi-do.
Vehicles couldn't get out and were jammed.
At around 7:40 pm yesterday evening, water leaked on the floor near the parking lot exit, and vehicles were isolated for about an hour.
[Ahn Byung-yeon/Informant: The car didn't even move at all. I want to get out of the underground parking lot for 40 minutes, but I can't get out, so it's frustrating and I don't know what's going on.]
[A department store customer center official: The exit area is full of water,
so I can't get out of it, so I'm
guiding it to another place... .] The
department store believes that the water leaked because the sprinkler in the parking lot was frozen due to the cold weather.
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Parking lot without a single light.
The vehicle moves forward carefully.
In the darkness, only the flash of the cell phone flashes,
[Uh! (Electricity) came on.] The
lights are on and people in thick coats gather here in a resort in Yangyang, Gangwon-do.
At around 8:10 pm yesterday evening, the electricity supply was cut off in the area of Hyeonnam-myeon, Yangyang-gun, Gangwon-do.
[Jeong Dae-jin/Reporter: There is no heating in the room, there is no cold, of course there is no electricity, there is no water in the toilet, and the toilet does not go down.] The
power outage was restored in 1 hour and 10 minutes.
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10 o'clock last night, about 540 households in Seongbuk-gu, Seoul also suffered a power outage and were restored in less than an hour.
[KEPCO official: It seems that there is something wrong because it is a cold day, but we are also trying to figure out the exact cause.]
KEPCO believes that the power outage occurred due to an abnormality in the ground electrical switchgear.