Eight people were killed and 10 are missing after a strong typhoon pounded South Korea on Tuesday, uprooting trees, sinking ships and cutting power to almost 200,000 homes.
By late afternoon Typhoon Bolaven – the strongest to hit the country for almost a decade – was moving towards North Korea, which is still struggling to recover from deadly floods earlier in the summer.
Hundreds of flights in the South were grounded, ferry services were suspended and schools in Seoul and several other areas were closed.
Bolaven left a trail of death and destruction in southwestern and south-central regions of the country, although officials said it had been little felt in central parts of the capital Seoul.
Off the southern island of Jeju, the storm drove two Chinese fishing ships aground early on Tuesday, sparking a dramatic rescue operation.
Coastguards wearing wetsuits struggled through high waves and then used a line-launcher to fire ropes to one ship, a coastguard spokesman said. The other boat broke apart.