{"id":267139,"date":"2025-03-26T12:51:05","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T12:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/26\/south-korea-man-found-dead-after-falling-into-seoul-sinkhole\/"},"modified":"2025-03-26T12:51:05","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T12:51:05","slug":"south-korea-man-found-dead-after-falling-into-seoul-sinkhole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/26\/south-korea-man-found-dead-after-falling-into-seoul-sinkhole\/","title":{"rendered":"South Korea: Man found dead after falling into Seoul sinkhole"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/e3.365dm.com\/25\/03\/1920x1080\/skynews-seoul-south-korea-sinkhole_6867292.jpg?20250326100554&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"South Korea: Man found dead after falling into Seoul sinkhole\" title=\"South Korea: Man found dead after falling into Seoul sinkhole\" \/><\/div>\n<div data-component-name=\"ui-article-body\" data-highlight-intro=\"true\">\n<p>A man has been found dead after falling into a sinkhole in South Korea, officials have said.<\/p>\n<p>Measuring roughly 20m (66ft) deep and 20m wide, the sinkhole appeared on Monday afternoon at an intersection in the Myeongil-dong neighbourhood in eastern Seoul.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency officer Kim Chang Seob said it swallowed a man who was on a motorbike and injured a woman who was driving a van over the site as the ground collapsed.<\/p>\n<p>He told reporters the man, in his 30s, was found dead before midday on Tuesday after an overnight search.<\/p>\n<p>The man was wearing a helmet and motorcycle boots. Rescue workers found his motorcycle and mobile phone before reaching his body.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more:<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/worst-ever-wildfires-rage-in-south-korea-killing-at-least-18-people-13335898\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8216;Worst ever&#8217; wildfires rage in South Korea<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/donald-trump-urged-to-fire-us-defence-secretary-pete-hegseth-over-war-plans-leak-13335800\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trump urged to fire &#8216;unqualified&#8217; defence secretary<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>     <a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/download-app\" target=\"blank\" data-tracking-label=\"ui-app-promo-download-link\" class=\"ui-app-promo sdc-article-widget\" data-type=\"\" data-component-name=\"ui-app-promo\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mr Kim said rescuers used excavators, shovels and other equipment to find the motorcyclist. He added the woman sustained minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the sinkhole is under investigation.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/south-korea-man-found-dead-after-falling-into-seoul-sinkhole-13336027\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man has been found dead after falling into a sinkhole in South Korea, officials have said. Measuring roughly 20m (66ft) deep and 20m wide, the sinkhole appeared on Monday afternoon at an intersection in the Myeongil-dong neighbourhood in eastern Seoul. Emergency officer Kim Chang Seob said it swallowed a man who was on a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267140,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/e3.365dm.com\/25\/03\/1920x1080\/skynews-seoul-south-korea-sinkhole_6867292.jpg?20250326100554","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[169,5631,1359,108,39062,67769,6967],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267139"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":267141,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267139\/revisions\/267141"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}