BUSAN, (South Korea): A powerful typhoon drenched both Koreas on Thursday, killing at least one person in the South and inundating streets across a port in the North as it churned its way up the peninsula.
Typhoon Maysak - named after a Cambodian word for a type of tree - made landfall in Busan on the southern coast, packing gusts of up to 140 kilometres per hour (87 miles per hour), knocking down traffic lights and trees and flooding streets.
A woman was killed after a strong gust shattered her apartment window in the city, while more than 2,200 people were evacuated to temporary shelters and around 120,000 homes were left without power across southern parts of the peninsula and on Jeju Island.
Another victim of the typhoon was a statue at a park in Ulsan of a brachiosaurus - a huge plant-eating dinosaur - which was pictured with its neck broken by strong gusts of wind.
The storm later made its way northwards, passing into the Sea of Japan, known as the East Sea in Korea, before making a second landfall around 0200 GMT at Kimchaek in North Korea.
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