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topicnews · July 19, 2025

The number of fatalities grows from radiant rains in South Korea, and thousands that cannot return home South Korea

The number of fatalities grows from radiant rains in South Korea, and thousands that cannot return home South Korea

Still violent rains, which beat South Korea for a fourth day on Saturday, stopped almost 3,000 people from returning to their houses when the number of fatalities reached four people.

The rain is assumed in some areas by Monday, since the officials prompted the extreme caution of the risk of landslides and floods.

On Saturday at 6 a.m., 2,816 people were still not out of their houses, the Interior Ministry said, the Interior Ministry said from a total of more than 7,000 evacuated in the previous days of heavy rain, in which four people died and two people are missing.

An aerial absorption of a village, which was flooded by heavy rains in Yesan, in the west of the country. Photo: Yonhap/AFP/Getty Images

The rainfall has reached a record of more than 500 mm in the province of South Chungcheong south of Seoul in Seosan.

Elsewhere in the province, cows desperately tried to keep their heads afloat after sheds and stables were flooded.

The balance of the water -damaged buildings was more than 641 buildings, 388 streets and 59 farms, said the Ministry.

Rainfalls were also expected in neighboring North Korea. From Sunday to Tuesday, according to State Newspaper Rodong Sinmun, 150 to 200 mm rain could fall in some remote regions in some northern areas in some northern areas.