The heaviest snow in a century is causing chaos in Korea

The heaviest snowfall in more than a century on South Korea's east coast is causing widespread chaos that has caused at least 14 deaths.

Hundreds of houses have collapsed under the weight of the snow. One newspaper described it as a snow bomb.
The South Korean government has deployed 12,000 soldiers to rescue stranded residents.

The worst weather has been in Gangwon province.
In Gangwon on the eastern coast, one city recorded 80cm (2.6 feet) of snow in a single day - the heaviest fall in 24 hours since records began there back in 1911.

The cost of the damage is expected to run into several million dollars.

The heaviest fall in a century is leaving a chaos in its wake - and more snow is forecast

Many schools and companies in Gangwon Province, about 240 km (149 miles) east of Seoul, have been closed.

The Han River in the capital, Seoul, iced over for the first time in years - but the latest snowfalls have left the seoul unaffected so far.

The Korean weather agency said a low-pressure system is traveling north where it will meet a high-pressure system, resulting in more snow for the Korean peninsula.

On Monday night, 10 university freshmen were killed and more than 100 injured at a resort in Gyeongju, a historic southeastern city popular with tourists, when the roof on an auditorium where hundreds of students were gathered to attend an orientation collapsed.