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Date | June 2020 – August 16, 2020 |
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Location | Korean Peninsula, especially southern South Korea |
Deaths | 30 (As of 9 August 2020[update][1]) |
Property damage | 9,491 houses were damaged. 9,317 hectare of farmland were submerged. (As of 9 August 2020[update][1]) |
Between June and August 2020, floods severely impacted large areas of both North and South Korea due to heavy rains of the regional rainy season, primarily in the far southern parts of the Korean Peninsula. These floods are closely related to ones across China and in Kyushu, Japan. As of 9 August 2020,[update] 30 people have died in South Korea as a result.[1]