The 2011 Seoul Landslide and Other Natural Disasters

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In July 2011, a landslide was triggered by heavy rains on a
mountain on the southern side of Seoul. It crashed through
apartment buildings and resulted in deaths and destruction. Your
host, Joe, was caught in that. Here’s his story.


Video of the Umyeonsan Landslides


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNkBC1a28o0


My video


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENHPJ2Ctcgg


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OZTjXtuNcM


EBS broadcasting building


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFa7paBnbLs


This is a video done by EBS about how it hit their studios, where
I was broadcasting at the time. The studio where they taped the
popular children’s show Ppoong-Ppoong-i looked like the set of
Lord of the RIngs. 


The military and police and others worked hard to make the
building usable for the most basic of broadcasting. They set up
temporary generators outside the building. Cleared trees from the
inside of the building.  


The video shows them clearing walking space in the mud and making
one radio booth usable. We did shows from there for a month with
no air conditioning, trekking in and out through the mud paths in
the hallways.


Old blog post with my photos.


https://zenkimchi.com/news-media/breaking-news-landslide-hits-ebs-studios/


The rains leading up to the landslides. Video of what it really
was like on the ground level.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wW_Iwm5P9O0


In-depth piece about the landslides with animated graphics


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sirod_CobcA


Drainage reinforcement in the aftermath of the Umyeonsan
Landslides


https://blog.naver.com/bsnking/221289861027


Tornadoes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5MTu5XT-1Y

https://www.reddit.com/r/CatastrophicFailure/comments/b1owlg/tornado_wiped_whole_factory_out_in_dangjin_south/


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