"Collapse" throughout the facility due to heavy snow...Recovery Operation Memorandum

[Anchor]
In November, the first heavy snowfall in 117 years caused the collapse of all facilities.

There is a reporter at the site of the collapse of a temporary building in a factory in Gyeonggi-do, which YTN delivered yesterday. Reporter Kim Lee Young!

[Reporter]
It is located in Paltan-myeon, Hwaseong-si, Gyeonggi-do.

[Anchor]
How is the situation now?

[Reporter]
It's still the same as it was at the time of the accident.

The pillars that supported the roof were bent indefinitely, and snow-melted water was constantly falling from the collapsed roof.

The equipment cannot be cleaned up and is left as it is.

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]
A similar accident happened at a nearby factory?

[Reporter]
At around 5 p.m. the day after the building collapsed here, the roof of the temporary building suddenly fell down at a nearby factory about 10 kilometers away.

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, and 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 additional damage as the snow is not yet melted.

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

Filmmaker: Woo Young-taek