Hamyang-gun Visits Flood Damage Site in Seo-gu, Daejeon, Working Hard on Emergency Restoration

Volunteers Engage in Restoration of Flooded Homes and Facilities

Volunteers from Hamyang are participating in restoration work at the flood damage site. (Photo by Hamyang County Office)

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Choi Soon-kyung] On the 4th, Hamyang-gun, Gyeongnam Province, announced that it rolled up its sleeves and participated in the rapid recovery of Seo-gu, Daejeon City, its sister city, which suffered great damage from heavy rain.

About 80 volunteers and public officials belonging to the Hamyang-gun Social Volunteer Organizations Council visited Daejeon, which was severely damaged by heavy rain, to clean flooded houses and repair agricultural infrastructure.

On July 30, heavy rain of 80mm per hour poured over the Seo-gu area, causing large-scale damage such as flooding of apartments in the Jeongnim-dong area.

Accordingly, the county held an emergency meeting with social volunteer organizations and formed a flood recovery support team to work together on the rapid recovery efforts, including removing debris from flooded houses and facilities and restoring agricultural infrastructure in Seo-gu.

The support team voluntarily participated with members from Hamyang-gun Social Volunteer Organizations Council, including the Saemaeul Hamyang-gun Council, Volunteer Council, Red Cross, Women's Organizations Council, Korea Freedom Federation, and Barugesalgi Council.

On the day, Seo Chun-soo, the mayor of Hamyang-gun, said, “I am truly sorry that our sister city suffered great damage due to unexpected heavy rain,” and added, “Please do your best in the recovery work so that our sister city, immersed in great sorrow, can quickly regain its former appearance.”

Park Byung-ok and Yoon Jeong-ran, co-chairs of the council, said, “We are glad to be able to offer a small help to Seo-gu, which was damaged by the heavy rain,” and “We hope that Seo-gu will overcome the pain of the flood as soon as possible and continue active exchanges as before.”

Meanwhile, Hamyang-gun and Seo-gu, Daejeon have maintained active exchanges since forming a sister city relationship in April 2004, including direct agricultural product transactions and sending delegations to various festivals and events.

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