Seoul - Saba:
Heavy rains that have swept across South Korea have left four people dead, one missing, and more than five thousand others displaced.
According to the South Korean news agency Yonhap, heavy rains flooded the streets of Seosan City in South Chungcheong Province in the central part of the country on Thursday, killing two men in their 60s and 80s.
In Dangjin City, an 80-year-old man was found dead in the basement of his flooded home.
A man in his 40s was killed Wednesday evening when a 10-meter-high retaining wall collapsed on his car, burying it under the rubble in Osan City, 52 kilometers south of Seoul.
Rescue authorities are continuing their search for the missing after receiving a report of a person being swept away by the current in the Gwangju Canal, a city southwest of the capital, Seoul. The rains displaced 5,192 people from 3,413 households across the country.
The cumulative rainfall in Naju, South Jeolla Province, from 12:00 a.m. Wednesday to 5:00 a.m. Friday was 455 mm, while Gwangju, Hongseong, South Chungcheong Province, Seosan, and Damyang, South Jeolla Province, recorded 442 mm, 437.6 mm, 427.1 mm, and 397 mm, respectively.
The Korea Meteorological Administration said that rainfall of 100 to 200 mm is expected in Gwangju, South Jeolla Province, Busan, Ulsan, and South Gyeongsang Province on the 18th and 19th of this month, and 50 to 150 mm in Chungcheong Province, North Jeolla Province, Daegu, and North Gyeongsang Province.
The Seoul metropolitan area, the interior, and mountainous areas of Gangwon Province will see between 30 and 100 mm of rain on Friday and Saturday, while Jeju Island in the south will receive between 20 and 80 mm, it added.
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