Mr Yoon said South Korea should have a digital system to simulate and monitor precipitation forecasts. Read more at straitstimes.com.
“Climate change is causing extreme natural disasters,” Mr Yoon told a Cabinet meeting televised live. “We cannot respond to this unprecedented, abnormal weather the way we have been doing until now.”
“This is what I have stressed since last year,” he said, referring to the flooding in August when the heaviest rain in 115 years hit Seoul, paralysing commercial areas and inundating low-lying neighbourhoods in the affluent Gangnam district. Experts say the government has failed to set aside the funds needed to fulfil its pledge and instead has remained too focused on recovery.
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