Record rainfall kills at least 8 in Seoul

At least eight people have died after record rainfall fell over South Korea on Monday and Tuesday, including the capital, Seoul, inundating city streets and flooding subway stations. Photos and videos from the Seoul metropolitan area, home to about 25 million people, showed half-submerged cars, people walking through waist-deep water and subway stations overflowing. Eight people died in floods, landslides and other incidents, according to the Ministry of the Interior and Safety. Seven other people are missing, including four in Seoul's Seocho district, where South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol lives. Yoon was getting briefed about the rain and giving instructions remotely overnight from his highrise apartment, which was partly flooded on the ground level, according to his office. “Nothing is more precious than life and safety. The government will thoroughly manage the heavy rain situation with the central disaster safety measures headquarters,” Yoon wrote in a Facebook post Monday.