A landslide struck an apartment building in Geoje, a coastal city near Busan in South Gyeongsang province, burying the ground floor and trapping several residents inside. Rescue teams pulled three people from the debris, but one was pronounced dead at a hospital. Three others sustained injuries.
South Korea's weather agency placed heavy rain warnings across wide sections of the southern region as the storm system persisted into Monday. Some areas recorded up to 800 millimetres—equivalent to 31.5 inches—of rainfall since Saturday, accompanied by thunder and lightning.
In Geoje, rivers overflowed their banks and roads flooded, cutting off traffic and leaving residents unable to move through parts of the city. The South Korean safety ministry said Monday that roughly 100 residents in the area were being evacuated because of the continued risk of further landslides.
Authorities were simultaneously conducting rescue operations for 20 residents who remained stranded in the affected zone, the safety ministry said. The twin operations—precautionary evacuations alongside active rescues—reflected the scale of flooding across the southern coastal city.
Yonhap News Agency, citing local emergency services, reported the specific sequence at the apartment building: the landslide hit the structure, the first floor was buried under debris, and workers extracted three survivors before one died at hospital.
