SEOUL, Feb. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Heavy snowfall swept across much of South Korea early Monday, blanketing central and northern regions and creating hazardous conditions as icy roads formed amid subzero temperatures, weather officials said. Snow fell nationwide except in the Yeongnam region and Jeju Island, with the heaviest accumulations recorded in Gangwon Province. As of [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Subway operations in Seoul suffered delays Thursday due to heavy snowfall. The overnight snowfall caused ice to form on railway tracks at a train depot at the eastern end of the Seoul Subway Line No. 5 in Godeok-dong, preventing trains from leaving the depot on time, officials at Seoul [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent study has revealed that heavy snowfall is typically met with reactions of anxiety and frustration, rather than happiness and excitement, on social media. The National Disaster Management Research Institute conducted an analysis of 83.5 million tweets in the Korean language posted in January every year from 2013 [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul received the first snowfall of the season Wednesday morning, about a month earlier than last year, the state weather agency said. The Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA) said light snow was observed at the Songwol-dong weather observation station in central Seoul at 6:10 a.m. The KMA records the first [...]
SEOUL, April 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Unseasonal snowfall blanketed mountainous areas of Gangwon Province, east of Seoul, on Friday, the last day of April usually known in South Korea as a season of early summer-like warm weather. Late-night rain turned into snow in the Gangwon mountains 1,300 meters above sea level early Friday morning, with [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Last month, relatively warm weather led South Korea to record the lowest monthly snowfall on record for December, the meteorological agency said Sunday. The amount of snowfall reached 0.3 centimeter in December 2019, the lowest since weather authorities began to compile December data, the Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA) said. [...]