{"id":274203,"date":"2025-07-19T08:03:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T08:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/274203\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T08:03:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T08:03:09","slug":"death-toll-grows-from-torrential-rains-in-south-korea-with-thousands-unable-to-return-home-south-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/274203\/","title":{"rendered":"Death toll grows from torrential rains in South Korea with thousands unable to return home | South Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">Torrential rains that lashed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/south-korea\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">South Korea<\/a> for a fourth day on Saturday kept nearly 3,000 people from returning to their homes, as the death toll reached four people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">Rain is forecast to last until Monday in some areas, as officials urged extreme caution against the risk of landslides and flooding, with warnings issued across most of the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">By 6am on Saturday, 2,816 people were still out of their homes, the interior ministry said, from a total of more than 7,000 evacuated during the prior days of heavy rain, in which four people have died and two people are missing.<\/p>\n<p>An aerial view of a village flooded by torrential rains in Yesan, in the west of the country. Photograph: YONHAP\/AFP\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">Rainfall since Wednesday reached a record of more than 500mm at Seosan, in the South Chungcheong province south of Seoul.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">Elsewhere in the province cows were desperately trying to keep their heads above water after sheds and stables flooded.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">The tally of water-damaged structures stood at more than 641 buildings, 388 roads and 59 farms, the ministry said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">Rains were also expected in neighbouring North Korea. From Sunday to Tuesday 150-200mm of rain could fall in some northern areas, rising to 300mm in some remote regions, according to state newspaper Rodong Sinmun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Torrential rains that lashed South Korea for a fourth day on Saturday kept nearly 3,000 people from returning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274204,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-274203","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114878860925781173","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}