"Last night's flooding left everyone stunned," the 40-year-old in Incheon City told VnExpress about one of the worst floods in decades that swamped Seoul Monday night (local time). Her husband works in Gangnam District, one of the places with the highest flooding levels. It is a low-lying area, and runoff water overwhelmed its drainage system. Normally, it took her husband around an hour and a half to take the subway and a bus to reach Incheon. But on Monday night, after he got on a train as the subway station was still open, it stopped after about five kilometers. He waited for nearly an hour before beginning to panic as the floodwaters flowed into the subway tunnel. He and other passengers rushed back to above ground to find other means of transport. According to local officials, the volume of rain in Seoul's Dongjak District exceeded 141.5 mm per hour at one point and the rapidly rising waters flooded homes, streets and subway stations. Many places in Seoul and … [Read more...] about Rains, flooding wreak havoc in South Korea, Vietnamese expats apprehensive
