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Second Typhoon in Less Than a Week Hits S. Korea

VOA News

   TyphoonHaishenmade landfall ontheSouth Korean coastMonday, a day after
   battering southern Japan.

   Forecasters at the Korea Meteorological Administration
   sayHaishenreached the southern city of Ulsan with maximum sustained
   winds of 126 kilometers an hour. The storm has already affected the
   nearby port city of Busan, cutting off power to thousands of homes,
   forcing authorities to evacuate nearly 1,000 residents and groundingas
   many as 300passengerflights to and from the region.

   The weather agency says Haishen is expected to weaken to a tropical
   storm within the next 24 hours.

   Haishen, which means "sea god" in Chinese, left nearly 500,000
   households without power on Japan's southern island of Kyushu Sunday.
   Nearly 2 million people were ordered to evacuate several southern
   Japanese islands as the typhoon bashed the region. At least 32 people
   were injured on Kyushu.

   Haishen is the second typhoon to hit southern Japan and the Korean
   Peninsula in less than a week. Typhoon Maysak flooded homes and
   vehicles and knocked down trees and traffic lights after making
   landfall in Busan last Thursday, leaving at least two people dead.

   Maysak was also blamed for the sinking of a cattle ship, which capsized
   and sank in the East China sea Wednesday. At least two of the 43
   crewmen on board were rescued. The ship was also carrying nearly 6,000
   cattle, bound for China.

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