Two days of heavy snow caused "collapse" everywhere...Recovery Operation 'Fully'

[Anchor]
The first heavy snow in November in 117 years has caused more than 2,900 damage to facilities in Gyeonggi-do.

The snow stopped early, but it takes a considerable amount of time to restore the collapsed buildings and restore daily life.

There is a YTN reporter at the scene. Reporter Kim Lee Young!

I can see the roof that is down in the back, what is the situation?

[Reporter]
It's been four days since the accident, but as you can see, it's still the way it is.

The rebar was bent and touched the floor, and the plastic material on the ceiling was torn here and there.

The equipment underneath the collapsed roof is still placed like this.

The 650-square-meter temporary building collapsed at around 11 p.m. on the 27th when the snow first began to fall.

At that time, the snow on the roof was said to have been more than 30cm.

Video footage from the time the roof collapsed shows a worker standing outside the building feeling a strange smell and urgently calling out the worker inside as the snow continued to fall.

Almost at the same time as the worker exited, the roof lost strength and collapsed.

The factory owner said it was fortunate that no one was hurt, but he complained of a sense of frustration, saying he could not even touch the collapsed site yet.

[Kim Sang-seon / Factory CEO: It will take a month or two to recover, and the manufacturing industry that we're trying to do will start working in March or April if it's delayed by two or three months, adding to the difficulty.]

[Anchor]
There was similar damage at a nearby factory?

[Reporter]
A day after the accident here, the roof of the temporary building suddenly collapsed at the waste recycling plant in Jangan-myeon.

It was 400 square meters, and if you look at the video, even the forklift, which was operating on the pouring ceiling, collapsed quickly enough to hide its appearance.

The factory owner rushed out in a hurry after hearing the roar, but when he realized that there were no casualties, he swept away his surprised heart.

The demolition work was barely completed, but he said he was embarrassed about how to make a comeback.

[Kim Ki-young / CEO of a nearby factory: It's been a little over a year since we just started our business. I feel like the sky suddenly collapses when I'm in the leap stage.]

On the same day, other warehouse roofs collapsed nearby without overcoming the weight of snow, causing hundreds of millions of won in damage.

The damage to facilities in Gyeonggi-do Province due to heavy snow has already reached 2,900 cases.

The Gyeonggi provincial government said it will continue to inspect structures vulnerable to snow and remove the remaining snow.

The Ministry of Public Administration and Security will also set up a "Restoration Countermeasures Support Headquarters" as the number of damage reports increases, and will consider declaring a special disaster zone in areas that meet the requirements.

Please be careful not to cause more damage as the snow is melting little by little.

I'm Kim Yi-young of YTN in Paltan-myeon, Hwaseong-si, Gyeonggi-do.

Filmmaker: Woo Young-taek