장마 끝났지만 농가 복구 및 이동식 세탁 봉사 이주째 이어져<br /><br />After a record-long monsoon season swept South Korea, many rural families are struggling to repair their damaged properties.<br />To help these people, thousands of volunteers are joining in recovery works across the country, doing laundry and restoring the farmland.<br />Our Lee Kyung-eun went to see some of them.<br />Torrential rain slammed Geumsan County in Chungcheongnam-do Province this summer... and farmer Shin Cheon-soo is still dealing with its impact.<br />Electronic devices are broken, trash is piled up, and crops are coated with mud from a landslide.<br />With just too much recovery work to do, he has no time to take care of himself.<br />"I work sleeping only five hours each day. But I am still running out of time. I don't have time to wash my clothes, that's not the priority at the moment."<br />For many people like him, volunteers from Korea Red Cross have been washing their clothes,...using this moving laundry car.<br />The car is located in the sports center in the town, and each morning, people bring in bags of laundry.<br />Once the clothes are dried, the volunteers fold them, put them in a clean bag and call people to pick them up.<br />During the past 10 days, the laundry has come in non-stop.<br />"The blanket was extremely heavy due to the rain, and there was even more mud inside. They also bring winter clothes that were stacked up in the wardrobe."<br />In the meantime, other volunteers have been working to restore the rain-hammered ginseng fields.<br />"Today, they are pulling down the covers that were used to protect ginseng. This is the last step before preparing the land for new crops."<br />It was hard to get to this stage, as the round-the-clock rain hindered them from digging up the rotten ginseng.<br />Now the rain has stopped, but they are fighting the heat.<br />"The biggest problem is the extreme heat. But if you look at the devastation, you forget about the heat."<br />Volunteers like these are working across the country,.. but the enormous amount of damage means there's still a lot of recovery work left to do.<br />Lee Kyung-eun, Arirang News, Geumsan.<br />
