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BUSAN: At least two people were reported killed and thousands were temporarily without power when Typhoon Maysak slammed into the Korean Peninsula on Thursday (September 3), bringing heavy rain and strong winds to areas still reeling from the storm. Typhoon Bavi.
Typhoon Maysak, named after the Cambodian word for a type of tree, made landfall early Thursday in Busan on the south coast, knocking down traffic lights and trees and flooding streets.
The ninth typhoon of the season and the fourth to hit the peninsula this year left some 120,000 homes without power in South Korea, authorities said.
Flights were canceled or delayed and downed trees and other debris caused minor damage, the Yonhap news agency reported.
One person died when winds broke a window in Busan, South Korea’s second-largest city, which withstood the brunt of the storm’s 170-kilometer-per-hour winds, Yonhap reported.
Another man in the city was found dead, believed to have fallen from the roof of his home while repairing a leak, the agency reported.
The peninsula generally sees only one typhoon a year, but another typhoon, Haishen, is brewing south of Japan and is expected to hit the Korean coast on Sunday or Monday, NASA’s Earth Observatory reported.
A ship carrying 43 crew members and nearly 6,000 head of cattle from New Zealand to China sank in wild weather in the East China Sea, according to a surviving crew member.
Gulf Livestock 1 sent out a distress call from west of Amami Oshima Island in southwestern Japan on Wednesday as Typhoon Maysak hurtled toward the Korean Peninsula.
Some of the hardest hit areas Thursday were still counting the cost of last week’s Typhoon Bavi and one of the wettest monsoon seasons on record.
Parts of South Korea’s resort island of Jeju have seen more than 1,000 mm (39 inches) of rain since Tuesday, according to the weather agency.
North Korea took the brunt of Typhoon Bavi, and for the second week in a row, state television broadcast rare live reports of storm surge and flooding, including in the coastal city of Wonsan.
Reports showed a damaged bridge and flooded farmland, while a truck with loudspeakers broadcast warnings to residents.
Later that day, state television reported that the typhoon warning had been lifted, with no immediate reports of casualties.
North Korea’s agricultural sector is particularly vulnerable to inclement weather, and this summer’s storms and floods have raised concerns about the country’s precarious food situation.
