National
Seoul faces increasing risk of landslides
July 18, 2013
In July 2011, Seoul was hit by the heaviest rain in a century. Subway stations were closed, tree trunks were ripped from their roots and roads became rivers. The worst came in the early morning of July 27, when a huge landslide swept through one of Seoul’s most affluent areas.The wall of mud and water from Mount Umyeonsan in southern Seoul took the lives of 16 people. Hundreds of residents had to rush outside, puzzled. “‘I’ll be right back’ was the last words I heard from him,” Kim Il-young, 56,