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Typhoon RUSA
Collapse of Sampoong
  Department Store
Typhoon Maemi
Collapse of Seongsu
  Bridge
Fire in Daegu Subway
Fire in Sea Land
Damage of lives: 130 people (117 deaths and 13 missing)
Damage of properties: £Ü4,781 billion
Sufferers: 4,089 households and 10,975 people
Status of being flooded: 421,015 houses and 37,986ha farm land
Others: 2,278 roads and bridges, 2,676 points of rivers, and 27,547 points of hydraulic facilities were lost or collapsed.

After Rusa happened in 2002, 16 Si-Dos, 203 Si-Gun-Gus, and 1,917 Eup-Myeon-Dongs were declared as Specially Stricken District, and then, this time, 14 Si-Dos, 156 Si-Gun-Gus, and 1,657 Eup-Myeon-Dongs were additionally declared as Specially Stricken District.


 
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