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I thought spring would come with the weather getting better, but today (19th), it snowed quite a bit in Gangwon-do and some areas of Gyeonggi-do.
As the snow piled up, there were also collisions on the road, and 11 vehicles slipped and collided on the snow on the Yangyang Expressway in Seoul.
By Son Hyeong-an, staff reporter.
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A village in Wangsan-myeon, Gangneung-si, Gangwon-do.
The whole town was covered in white with the non-stop snow falling.
Residents are busy clearing up the accumulated snow.
[Yoon Oh-seop / Gangneung-si, Gangwon-do: Because it suddenly snowed so much, there are elderly people and it is difficult to pass, so I am working on snow removal.]
The heavy snowfall in March, which seemed jealous of spring, spreads across the mountains and east coast of Gangwon-do. got off
Hyangnobong Peak in Gangwon-do was 82.5cm tall, Daegwallyeong 29.3cm in height, and 28.2cm in Wangsan Mountain in Gangneung.
Heavy snow also fell in the southeastern part of Gyeonggi-do.
The Icheon area recorded 7.6 cm of snowfall on this day alone.
There have also been road accidents in the snow.
At around 8:30 am today, 11 vehicles slipped on the snow and collided at a point 145 km in the Yangyang direction of the Yangyang Expressway.
Five people were injured in the accident and received treatment at the hospital.
In the aftermath of the accident management, there was a severe traffic jam for nearly two hours near the accident site.
Reports were received from insurance companies saying that they could not go on the road on the highway after going out on the road without winter equipment installed.
The Korea Meteorological Administration predicted that by tonight, 2 to 7 cm of snow would fall in the mountainous areas of Gangwon, 1 to 5 cm in the northeastern mountains of Gyeongsangbuk-do, and about 1 cm more in southern Gangwon and the east coast of Gangwon and the east coast of northern Gyeongsangbuk-do.
(Video coverage: Heo Chun, video editing: Kim Ho-jin)