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Record Downpour Batters North Jeolla and South Chungcheong Provinces, Leaving at Least 4 Dead

SEOUL, July 10 (Korea Bizwire) – Record torrential rainfall battered South Korea’s southern regions Wednesday, leaving at least four people dead and disrupting train services, authorities said. Parts of North Jeolla Province experienced record downpours starting early Wednesday morning. Gunsan, 178 kilometers south of Seoul, received 131.7 millimeters of rain within a one-hour period until [...]

Community-Funded Comfort Girl Statue Erected in Yongin

YONGIN, Aug. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – In commemoration of the 72nd Independence Day of South Korea, a statue of a ‘comfort girl’ symbolizing victims of Japanese sex slavery before and during the Second World War, was erected in the Seoul suburb of Yongin City. The committee that had commissioned the statue was in attendance for [...]