SEOUL: Fourteen people were killed and more than 1,000 people forced from their homes as 42 consecutive days of rain - South Korea's longest monsoon in seven years - triggered floods and landslides, authorities said on Tuesday .
They were a woman believed to be 65, her 36-year-old daughter and her three-year-old grandson, a Gapyeong police official said. President Moon Jae-in expressed concern for citizens and public workers battling the COVID-19 pandemic in the face of 42 days of monsoon rains, which weather officials said was the longest such stretch since 49 days of rain in 2013."I call for preventive checks and proactive precautionary measures to the level that could be deemed excessive," Moon told an emergency meeting.
Most of the flooded roads and bridges along the Han River in central Seoul that had backed up traffic and damaged infrastructure were back in operation on Tuesday, the Yonhap news agency said.
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