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Pohang Is effective restarts blast furnace in 3 days… Injury recovery sweat

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This time, we will glimpse at the problem in Pohang, which is possessing a tricky time even through Chuseok due to Typhoon Hinnamno.

Just one of the 3 blast furnaces at Pohang Is effective, which was shut down for the 1st time in 49 decades thanks to flooding, resumed standard procedure, and the victims and volunteers worked really hard to get better the hurt throughout the vacations.

Reporter Lee Kyu-seol was masking the web page.

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At the POSCO Pohang Works, which was scraped by Hurricane Hinnamno, the total plant was filled with water near to 2 meters.

[원형일/금속노조 포스코 지회장 (지난8일)]

“It was completely submerged. The hydrology and all that things is underground.

The metal mill, which was shut down for the very first time in 49 a long time because of to flooding, shortly commenced 24-hour restoration work.

All the substantial pumping devices across the place were being despatched to pump stagnant h2o, and Gwangyang Will work personnel and even retirees contributed to the restoration operate, and in 4 days, one particular blast furnace, a blast furnace, was set into operation.

[이태희/포스코 홍보섹션 리더]
“We have properly completed blast furnace 3 operate, and we intend to begin normal operation of the remaining blast furnaces 2 and 4 in relationship with the operation of steelmaking amenities as early as tomorrow.”

In section, energy has been re-opened.

Nonetheless, the rolling line that procedures iron by implementing warmth and stress suffers from flooding, so it will get a lengthy time to restart.

Personal recovery is also accelerating, but even now has a lengthy way to go.

Volunteers and soldiers from all about the country are performing hard to volunteer in Pohang immediately after returning from the Chuseok holidays.

In the village where by the whole neighborhood is submerged in water, the back again lanes are now fairly thoroughly clean, but the within of the house is however the similar.

[정세용/태풍 피해 주민]
“I continue to have to clean a ton. I have to set away the first copy, then the 2nd, and right here it is.”

Residents will have to live in shelters for a number of more weeks as water and mud arrive at the floor and boilers have broken in most of the houses.

[임춘만/태풍 피해 주민]
“My tent is variety 10, and I perform below through the working day and go to rest there at night…”

The city of Pohang introduced that more than 8,200 flood-broken autos have been additional to the Hyeongsan River as effectively as the Pohang Sports activities Elaborate as an assembly issue for flooded autos.

Bosik Choi / Pohang video comment

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