Six people died and one was missing in central South Korea after torrential rains flooded houses and rice fields, Yonhap news agency reported today.
Televisions showed swollen rivers overflowing their banks to sweep away apple orchards and homes.
"I was working on tobacco plants when the river suddenly overflowed," Lee Yong-Ok, a farmer rescued from a isolated farm, told KBS TV.
Friday's downpours forced the government to temporarily block roads and railways hit by small-scale landslides or where ground was swept away, the National Emergency Management Agency said.
Ships are blocked at ports and campers were evacuated, it said in a statement.
But officials at the government agency could not confirm the casualties.
Rains slowed significantly late on Saturday afternoon and the authorities withdrew warnings nationwide.
About 240 to 450 mm of rain had fallen in the central region of the country since Sunday, flooding about 4,500 hectares (11,120 acres) of agricultural land, the emergency agency said.