SEOUL: Two people have died and about 1, 000 residents were evacuated as torrential rains slammed parts of the nation's central regions, authorities said on Thursday, as they warned of more downpours in the coming days.
As a rain front showed signs of moving northward, the government's disaster response authorities put the Chungcheong provinces and southern part of Gyeonggi Province on the second-highest alert level.
On Wednesday, a retaining wall collapsed onto a moving vehicle in the city of Osan, 52 kilometres south of Seoul, killing the driver.