{"id":423685,"date":"2024-11-29T00:45:36","date_gmt":"2024-11-29T00:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=423685"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T14:00:00","slug":"South-Korea-officials-say-three-dead-in-heavy-snowfall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/South-Korea-officials-say-three-dead-in-heavy-snowfall\/","title":{"rendered":"South Korea officials say three dead in heavy snowfall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Heavy snowfall blanketed South Korea for a second consecutive day Thursday, resulting in three deaths overall and disrupting flights and ferry services, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>The snow caused three fatalities in Gyeonggi province around the capital Seoul, officials said, including one person killed when a tent-style garage collapsed during snow removal.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Another died when a golf practice net gave way amid the extreme weather.<\/p>\n<p>The prolonged snowfall led to the cancellation of 156 flights and disrupted 104 ferry services across 79 routes, the interior ministry said.<\/p>\n<p>The second day of snow came after Seoul on Wednesday recorded its heaviest November snowfall since records began over a century ago, according to the country\u2019s weather agency. The record snowfall also marked the capital&#8217;s first snow of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Up to 40 centimetres of snow accumulated in parts of the capital by 11 am (GMT 0200), the interior ministry said, while other areas outside Seoul saw snow piles reaching nearly 45 centimetres.<\/p>\n<p>The second day of snow prompted the city government to deploy 11,000 personnel and 20,000 pieces of equipment for snow removal operations in the capital.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Authorities reported 131 temporary power outages, with 46 restored by the end of Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>While the heavy snow advisory was lifted in Seoul, it remained in effect in many southern regions outside the capital, with some areas still experiencing snowfall at a rate of around one centimetre per hour, the Korea Meteorological Administration said.<\/p>\n<p>kjk\/wp\/cwl<\/p>\n<p> <figure style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/imgupload\/7dd27b441a10dfec87be2d6b4286f4f4.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/p>\n<p>Heavy snow has blanketed the South Korean capital the past two days<\/p>\n<p>-ANTHONY WALLACE<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure> <figure style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/imgupload\/c3d4354fe3b38ca2fa945cbf68584a82.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><br \/>South Korean capital hit by record November snowfall-Yong-Ju SHIN<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heavy snowfall blanketed South Korea for a second consecutive day Thursday, resulting in three deaths&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23812],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-423685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}