SEOUL, Oct. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – The government plans to minimize damage from heavy rains using digital twin technology that enables researchers to analyze and forecast expected weather conditions through a simulation of a virtual world. The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport said Monday it will provide the Ministry of Environment with 3D spatial [...]
BOSTON, July 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Extreme event modeling firm AIR Worldwide estimates insured losses in Germany from July flooding could approach EUR 5 billion. AIR Worldwide is a Verisk (Nasdaq:VRSK) business. Low pressure system “Bernd” parked itself over central Europe and brought about significant flooding from July 13 to 18. Germany’s Rhineland-Palatinate and North [...]
NAMWON, Jan. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Heartwarming news came from a family of cows on a farm in Songdong-myeon in Namwon, North Jeolla Province that survived last summer’s severe flooding of the Seomjin River. In August last year, when the Seomjin River dam collapsed due to heavy rainfall, many homes and barns in Songdong-myeon district [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The government on Wednesday announced a set of countermeasures to deal with flooding and other natural disasters anticipated due to global climate change, vowing to drastically strengthen anti-flood design standards for dams and rivers. Under the new measures, local dams and rivers will be designed to withstand the heaviest [...]
GURYE, Aug. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — A cow that survived a flood by climbing onto a roof successfully gave birth after she was rescued. The cow, which was rescued from Yangjeong village in Gurye County, South Jeolla Province, gave birth to twin calves on Tuesday morning, immediately following the rescue. Despite being exhausted from the [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea will provide $200,000 worth of humanitarian aid to Nepal, which was hit hard by recent heavy rains and floods, the foreign ministry said Tuesday. The heavy rains that started late last week and the resulting floods and mudslides in Nepal have killed more than 130 people so [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea has misappropriated part of an international relief package to help it deal with the devastation caused by deadly flooding last year for its major infrastructure projects, a U.S. broadcast said Tuesday. A source in the northern Ryanggang Province told Radio Free Asia (RFA) that materials and funds [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – Last year’s floods affecting key soybean producers in Latin America, including those in Argentina, led to a drop in the soybean harvest, which is now crippling the supply of business-to-business cooking oil in Korea – further pressuring food businesses that are already suffering from soaring egg prices from the [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – Thirteen high school students and staff members were allegedly killed trying to recover portraits of former supreme leaders Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il in a flood-affected region in North Hamgyong Province, a display of unconditional loyalty to the state that took a deadly turn. According to an unnamed source [...]
JEJU, Aug. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – A recent study led by Hosei University professor Shirai Nobuo and professor Lee Soo-cheol of Meijo University revealed that Koreans and Japanese have different perceptions of natural disasters. The survey, which was conducted with the participation of 520 citizens from each of Tokyo and Seoul, showed that 48.8 percent [...]