Aug 19 2020 66 mins 4
In July 2011, a landslide was triggered by heavy rains on a mountain on the southern side of Seoul. It crashed through apartment buildings and resulted in deaths and destruction. Your host, Joe, was caught in that. Here’s his story. Video of the Umyeonsan Landslides https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNkBC1a28o0 My video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENHPJ2Ctcgg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OZTjXtuNcM EBS broadcasting building https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFa7paBnbLs This is a video done by EBS about how it hit their studios, where I was broadcasting at the time. The studio where they taped the popular children’s show Ppoong-Ppoong-i looked like the set of Lord of the RIngs. The military and police and others worked hard to make the building usable for the most basic of broadcasting. They set up temporary generators outside the building. Cleared trees from the inside of the building. The video shows them clearing walking space in the mud and making one radio booth usable. We did shows from there for a month with no air conditioning, trekking in and out through the mud paths in the hallways. Old blog post with my photos. https://zenkimchi.com/news-media/breaking-news-landslide-hits-ebs-studios/ The rains leading up to the landslides. Video of what it really was like on the ground level. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wW_Iwm5P9O0 In-depth piece about the landslides with animated graphics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sirod_CobcA Drainage reinforcement in the aftermath of the Umyeonsan Landslides https://blog.naver.com/bsnking/221289861027 Tornadoes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5MTu5XT-1Y https://www.reddit.com/r/CatastrophicFailure/comments/b1owlg/tornado_wiped_whole_factory_out_in_dangjin_south/ Join our Patreon to get more stuff https://patreon.com/darksideofseoul Music by Soraksan Top tier Patrons Angel Earl Joel Bonomini Jamie Staley Shaaron Cullen Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/user?u=22510065)
