The South Korean government laid out plans to provide support for residents in Gangwon-do Province who were affected by a wildfire that broke out last week.
The plans include housing support and financial aid.
Kan Hyeong-woo has the details.
The South Korean government will provide a number of support measures for those affected by the Gangwon wildfire, focusing its efforts on rehousing the twelve-hundred displaced victims.
"The government will set up temporary houses for those who have been displaced at no cost to give them a place to stay... before the plan for damage relief is finalized."
Along with opening up one hundred and seventy-eight rental houses,...the government will install twenty temporary houses in the affected region before the end of the week.
Victims can live in the government provided accommodation for up to two years, but if they wish to go back to their homes,... they will be provided with a housing stabilization fund worth eleven-thousand U.S. dollars, along with a fifty-two-thousand dollar loan with a low interest rate.
The government also plans to provide about three-thousand pieces of farm equipment,... which farmers will be able to rent for free. They'll also be able to have their damaged equipment repaired, cost-free.
In addition,... the government says farmers, fishermen, small and medium-sized firms and agricultural, forestry and fisheries organizations affected by the wildfire will have their deadlines extended for repaying existing loans and paying taxes.
The wildfire that broke out on the east coast of the country last Thursday burned almost eighteen million square meters of land - about twenty-five-hundred times the size of a soccer field - left two dead, one injured and over a thousand people without homes.
Kan Hyeong-woo, Arirang News