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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
World
Raphael Rashid in Seoul

South Korea accused of paying lip service to climate action after deadly floods

A man next to his collapsed house after a landslide caused by heavy rain in Yecheon, South Korea.
A man next to his collapsed house after a landslide caused by heavy rain in Yecheon, South Korea. Photograph: Yun Kwan-shick/AP

Forty-six dead and four missing. Thirty-five injured. Sixteen thousand evacuated and 5,500 displaced. More than 1,000 public facilities and dozens of cultural heritage sites damaged. Hundreds of houses destroyed, 30,000 hectares of farmland damaged and 700,000 livestock killed.

As South Korea counts the cost of the devastating flash floods and landslides caused by the torrential rains that lashed the country last weekend, questions about responsibility – and response – are being raised.

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