{"id":34803,"date":"2020-08-05T08:44:23","date_gmt":"2020-08-05T08:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=34803"},"modified":"2020-08-05T08:44:23","modified_gmt":"2020-08-05T08:44:23","slug":"south-korea-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2020\/08\/05\/south-korea-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent landslides triggered by rainfall in South Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recent landslides triggered by rainfall in South Korea<\/h4>\n

In the last few days South Korea has been hit by very heavy rainfall, triggering landslides that have had a substantial impact.\u00a0 The recent heavy rainfall comes on the back of a 42 day long period of monsoon rainfall<\/a>.\u00a0 In common with other parts of Asia, most notably Nepal<\/a> and China<\/a>, South Korea is suffering an unusually intense monsoon this year.\u00a0 Incidentally, it is likely that this rainfall will be causing substantial levels of loss in North Korea as well, but of course there is little information available about this.<\/p>\n

Yesterday, two significant fatal landslides were reported in South Korea.\u00a0 In Gapyeong three generations of the same family were killed in a holiday home<\/a>.\u00a0 The family were all New Zealand citizens.<\/p>\n

\"South

The aftermath of the landslide at Gapyeong in South Korea, which killed three people. Image from AP via Internewscast<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n

.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, three workers were killed when a landslide destroyed a factory.\u00a0 I have not been able to track down the location of this event as yet.<\/p>\n

News reports in Korean suggest other landslide fatalities<\/a>:<\/p>\n