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[mayorgc]

do they cause flooding/deaths?? Taiwan and the coast areas of china seem to be hit pretty hard.

[tzechuk]

Typhoons rarely come to Korea... because it's pretty much shielded off by Taiwan and Japan.

The ones that do get up here don't stay very long, but they can cause some serious damage...

[martypants]

We had some leftovers of a typhoon hit here in Ulsan two years ago - killed a girl who was too drunk to walk in the calf-deep water

[hogwonguy1979]

if you're down south or se say on yeosu-ulsan line and se you may get one going by once every couple of years. they arent that bad as they are usually moving pretty quick at this latitude and usually pretty weak, though they can dump a bunch of rain quickly. jeju tends to get a couple as they usually make the ne turn around jeju

up here in seoul, not much to worry about

btw in a day or two we should get the remnants of that one that went over taiwan and into china, again not much to worry about. korea will likely never see one that causes as much damage as katrina or andrew

[frankly speaking]

As stated before most areas in Korea do not have serious problems.

About 7 or 8 years ago, I forget exactly, but there were some serious typhoons in the South. I remember 60-80 mile an hour winds. Schools were closed for days. Many of the roads were flooded or blocked by fallen trees. There weren't too many casualties though.

Not much to worry about overall though.

[redaxe]

If you're in Seoul, a typhoon just means it will rain that day. It's really not a big deal. In a place like Busan or Ulsan it might be a bigger deal though.

[Jane]

I was down in Ulsan 7 years ago, and we had a few days when I wasn't expected to come into work for fear of being blown away. In fact, I have never experienced such strong winds and accompanied rain as those days.

My friend's school's roof caved in from the weight of the water on the roof and there were broken umbrellas whipping around the deserted streets.

I believe Jeju got hit bad in that storm too and there were some deaths from buildings and roads collapsing.

It was somewhere around the 2nd week of September 2002 when it hit, if you want to do a search. I have not felt anything as bad in Korea since that one.

[saw6436]

Weak damn Korean typhoons. Nothing like the hurricanes I grew up with.

[harryh]

I remember Typhoon Maemi very well.

I was eating and drinking in a Hof in Nampodong, Busan when that hit. The building did some serious swaying. I lived on Geoje Island at the time, and when I got back to Geoje a day or two later, there was no electricity. I think we were without electricity for five days.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoon_Maemi

[schwa]

Typhoon Rusa in 2002 packed a wallop. Not so much wind but rain like I've never seen before. Gangneung got 36 inches (910 mm) in just 30 hours, Sokcho nearly as much.

Downtown was thick with mud & ruined cars upside down & stacked on top of each other. Many area bridges were damaged or destroyed. Some rivers carved out new courses. Crops were wiped out. Even gravesites gave up their dead. More than a hundred people died.

The biggest hardship in the aftermath was the lack (ironically) of water. The govt dropped off truckloads of free drinking water outside grocery stores for several days afterward.

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