South Korea is at the peak of its summer monsoon season and there has been heavy rainfall for the last three days, triggering widespread flooding and landslides, and causing a major dam to overflow.
SOUTH KOREA - At least 22 people have died and 14 more are missing after heavy rain caused flooding and landslides in South Korea, officials said Saturday, with thousands more ordered to evacuate their homes.
South Korea's Yonhap News Agency had earlier reported 24 deaths, citing local disaster relief officials. Some of the people who have been reported missing were swept away when a river overflowed in North Gyeongsang province, the ministry said.
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