폭우로 사망 31명, 실종 11명...이재민 6천명 육박<br /><br />And the deadly torrential rain pounded central and southern parts of South Korea over the weekend.<br />Over the past one week period alone, 13 people died and two went missing, and thousands of people were forced to leave their homes.<br />Lee Kyung-eun with the details.<br />Due to the past nine days of heavy monsoon rain in South Korea, 31 people have died and 11 have gone missing.<br />Nearly half of the casualties were reported over the last weekend when torrential rain hammered the central and southern part of the country.<br />Authorities say 13 people died and 2 went missing from Friday to Sunday,...while some 37-hundred had to evacuate.<br />That adds up to six-thousand evacuees across the country,...as of Sunday.<br />The country's southwestern Jeollabuk-do Province is among the hardest-hit areas.<br />Floods inundated villages near the Seomjingang River after the river broke its banks.<br />In the southern part of Jeolla-do Province, much of Gokseoung County is now covered with mud due to a massive landslide.<br />In Gyeongsangnam-do Province, people are dealing with an enormous amount of trash that flowed in due to the waterbomb.<br />Recovery work is underway in the affected areas.<br />Among some 13-thousand facilities that have been destroyed, including farmland,...about two-thirds have received emergency recovery aid.<br />To speed up efforts, Finance Minister Hong Nam-ki is urging the government to provide aid immediately, even calling for the use of extra budget if necessary.<br />Currently, families living in areas recently declared so-called "Special Disaster Zone" can receive about 8-hundred U.S. dollars if their homes are flooded,...54-hundred dollars in case of partial destruction, and some 10-thousand dollars for total destruction.<br />To further ease the burden on the people, he ordered payment dates for electricity bills, health insurance, and national pensions be delayed.<br />Lee Kyung-eun, Arirang News.<br /><br />
