Parts of South Korea were hit by record-large rainfall early on Wednesday. Four people have died and one is missing. It is particularly Chungcheong and Gunsan, south of the capital Seoul, that have been hard hit by the heavy rainfall, which according to the country's meteorological institute occurs only every two hundred years.
Among the deceased is a man who was sucked into a drainage system when he was checking his harvest in the city of Daegu, and a man whose car was swept away by the water masses when he was tending to his livestock in northern Chungcheong.
In Gunsan, 131.7 millimeters of rain fell in less than an hour on Wednesday morning - more than ten percent of the area's average annual rainfall.
