Following the deadly torrential rainfall that has wreaked havoc across South Korea, President Yoon Suk Yeol on Monday underscored the critical need for prompt and effective disaster recovery efforts, calling for a full deployment of policy tools, even considering the "declaration of a special disaster zone." Yoon, fresh from a trip to Europe, led a meeting to address the damage caused by the heavy rain. He .
Four more bodies have been recovered from a once-flooded underground road in central Korea, bringing the number of people dead or missing in recent downpours to 49, officials said .
The government launched an inspection into what went wrong in the response to the recent deadly flooding of an underground roadway in the central town of Osong, which has claimed 1.