Scorching heat leads to electricity failures, casualties
Social affairsJul 22, 2018
As the scorching weather continues, several regions across South Korea suffered blackouts caused by circuit failures following high electricity demands. According to Korea Electric Power Corp. on Sunday, the electricity went out in 756 households of nine apartment buildings in Gwangju at 10:10 p.m. on Saturday. While the power came back for most of the houses after two hours, the outage continued as of Sunday noon for 252 households in the three apartment buildings.(Yonhap)In Busan, 200 househol