These are national emergency management instructions for heavy rain.
Stay away from high-accident areas like riversides, valleys, agricultural waterways and more where flooding and strong current sweeping are highly likely.
While driving, stay away from areas where there is a risk of submergence, such as riverbed roads and closed underground roadways. Do not enter. Detour.
Immediately evacuate to the ground floor when water fills up in semi-basement apartments and basements. Entry for vehicle verification and vehicle movement is also prohibited.
Stay away and evacuate beforehand from dangerous areas like landslides, slopes and embankments where there is a risk of collapse.
In Incheon, where a heavy rain warning was issued, a total of 350 reports of rain damage were reported, including floods among households and roads.
In particular, in Ganghwa-gun, where heavy rains of nearly 150mm poured overnight. Numbers of damages were reported including two cases of landslides and trees falling.
Twenty-five of the 1,257 international flights have been canceled at Incheon International Airport, and four flights departing today have been returned.
The accumulated precipitation from the day before yesterday up to now is 381 mm in Ganghwa, 293mm in Gyeongseo, and 258mm in Yeongjong.
IFEZ Recruits Civic Participants for IFEZ Smart City’s Living Lab
The Incheon Free Economic Zone Authority recruits a civic participation group for the ‘2024 IFEZ Smart City Citizen Engagement Living Lab’ organized by Incheon Techno Park and operated by Inha University’s Industry-Academic Cooperation Group.
Citizen Engagement Living Lab means ‘a laboratory of daily life’ referring to the policy involving citizen participation in which citizens directly participate in and solve urban problems by using information and communication technology.
The recruitment period is until August 11th and it is for any citizen above 19 living within the Incheon Free Economic Zones and any foreigner living in Incheon.
Applications for participation are received online through the QR code on the poster or can be checked on the website of Incheon Startup Park.
Incheon Startup Park Removes Complex Transfer Center and Creates Office Space
Incheon Startup Park’s Complex Transfer Center will be renovated as office space for companies in the park.
The Incheon Free Economic Zone Authority announced that a total of 6.5 billion won is invested into extending and renovating the transfer center in the park as office space for startup companies by next January.
The building will a three-story facility with a total floor area of 4,370 square meters, with 20 offices, five conference rooms, a book café and a pantry.
An official from the Incheon Economic Office announced that they will expand support for startup companies by promoting the renovation project with the goal of opening it next January.
Sources: https://news.ifm.kr
