Typhoon Khanun made landfall on the Korean Peninsula Thursday morning, bringing heavy rain and strong winds across the country, leaving a trail of damage. A 67-year-old man was found dead in a stream in Daegu at around 12:33 p.m. Thursday, according to the Daegu Fire Department. Separately, at around 1:45 p.m., a man in his 60s in an electric wheelchair in Dalseong-gun, Daegu, was swept away by the current and report.
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The South Korean central government and prosecution are scrambling to hold local authorities accountable for the inadequate disaster response over the recent underpass flooding that killed over a dozen people in Cheongju, North Chungcheong Province on July 15. In a statement Monday, the Office for Government Policy Coordination accused officials from the provincial government and the National Agency for Administrativ.
The South Korean central government and prosecution are scrambling to hold local authorities accountable for the inadequate disaster response over the recent underpass flooding that killed over a dozen people in Cheongju, North Chungcheong Province on July 15. In a statement Monday, the Office for Government Policy Coordination accused officials from the provincial government and the National Agency for Administrativ.
There had been warnings made before almost all disasters happened in Korea, including Saturday's deadly underpass flooding. But the warnings delivered to on-site officials were often ignored or did not reach the top decision-makers, according to the disaster management experts. Pointing out blind spots in Korea's disaster management system, Lee Soo-gon, a former civil engineering professor at the University.