Crow contact causes back-to-back power outages in Busan amid heat wave

Nearly 2,000 households in Busan lost electricity in two weekend outages, with bird contact blamed as heat wave demand surged.

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Nine hundred households including restaurants experience power outage on Feb. 6., after a crow likely contacted the high-tension wire in Ulsan.

Back-to-back power outages hit parts of Busan over the weekend, with bird contact blamed for the disruptions amid increased electricity use during the ongoing heat wave.

Power was cut to 981 households in Gupo-dong, Buk District, at around 6:07 p.m. Sunday, according to Busan Metropolitan City on Monday.

The Korea Electric Power Corporation (Kepco) and other authorities carried out repair work, restoring power about an hour later at around 7:15 p.m.

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The city believes the outage occurred after a crow came in contact with electrical equipment.

A similar outage had already occurred at around 4:34 p.m. Saturday, cutting power to 986 households in Hwamyeong-dong and Geumgok-dong, Buk District.

Kepco said that the outage was also believed to have been caused by a crow or another bird coming into contact with electrical equipment.

Power was restored to 904 households after about an hour of repairs, while service to the remaining 82 households was restored at around 8 p.m.


BY KIM JI-HYE [shin.woojin@joongang.co.kr]

This article was originally written in Korean and translated by a bilingual reporter with the help of generative AI tools. It was then edited by a native English-speaking editor. All AI-assisted translations are reviewed and refined by our newsroom.

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