Broadcaster Kim Soo-min donated to help recover from the wildfire damage.
On the 27th, Kim Soo-min revealed the donation certificate, saying, "Only citizens. Why only citizens? A strange society. My heart is fluttering these days."
She also included the poem "Indian Rain Ceremony" by poet Park No-hae. The poem contains, "When the earth is parched and life is burning away, the Indians hold a rain ceremony. When the Indians hold a rain ceremony, rain must fall like a miracle. They hold the ceremony until it rains. My prayers have surely been answered, not because I pray until they are fulfilled, but because my vain wishes have vanished in the midst of my prayers. Now, I have a fervent wish, and I am praying with my whole body for that one thing. My prayers will surely be realized. Because it is not just my prayer, I will persistently push forward until my prayers are fulfilled, day by day, until my life runs out."
On the 27th, the Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasure Headquarters announced that 26 people had died and numerous casualties occurred due to the simultaneous wildfire that broke out in the Gyeongsang region on the 21st. Only in Uiseong and Andong, the areas most affected by the wildfires, 29,911 residents were evacuated. As of 5 a.m. that day, the area of forest damage was tallied at 36,009 hectares, which exceeds by more than 10,000 hectares the previous record of 23,794 hectares from the worst wildfire in 2000 on the East Coast.
[Photo] Kim Soo-min
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