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12-08-2022, 10:03 AM
By Jessie Yeung and Gawon Bae, CNN
Updated 0118 GMT (0918 HKT) August 12, 2022
Seoul, South Korea (CNN)Seoul has vowed to move some of the city's poorest families out of underground and semi-subterranean homes after 13 people were killed in flooding caused by record-breaking rainfall this week, sparking public horror and calls for government accountability.
The deaths, which included a family who drowned after becoming trapped underground, have spurred the South Korean capital to put an end to people living in "banjiha" homes -- the often cramped and dingy basement apartments made famous by the movie "Parasite."
The family of three -- a woman in her 40s with Down syndrome, her sister, and the sister's 13-year-old daughter -- died after water pressure prevented them from opening the door of their flooded home in Seoul's southern Gwanak district.
Much much more at: https://edition.cnn.com/2022/08/11/asia/...index.html
Updated 0118 GMT (0918 HKT) August 12, 2022
Seoul, South Korea (CNN)Seoul has vowed to move some of the city's poorest families out of underground and semi-subterranean homes after 13 people were killed in flooding caused by record-breaking rainfall this week, sparking public horror and calls for government accountability.
The deaths, which included a family who drowned after becoming trapped underground, have spurred the South Korean capital to put an end to people living in "banjiha" homes -- the often cramped and dingy basement apartments made famous by the movie "Parasite."
The family of three -- a woman in her 40s with Down syndrome, her sister, and the sister's 13-year-old daughter -- died after water pressure prevented them from opening the door of their flooded home in Seoul's southern Gwanak district.
Much much more at: https://edition.cnn.com/2022/08/11/asia/...index.html
