Kim Dong-wan, a former weathercaster who died Sunday on the age of 89 (Yonhap)
Kim Dong-wan, who was often called the nation’s first weathercaster, died Sunday on the age of 89, the state climate company stated.
Kim started working as a climate forecaster for what’s now the Korea Meteorological Administration in 1959. Within the Nineteen Seventies, he began giving climate forecasts at then broadcaster TBC, utilizing catchy phrases, corresponding to “warmth that looks like a fly is falling asleep,” to seize listeners’ consideration.
He later labored for broadcaster MBC beginning in 1982 and made climate forecasts simple to grasp by drawing his personal diagrams.
Kim is taken into account to have established the inspiration for modern-day weathercasts.
In 2010, he was awarded the Camellia Medal of the Order of Civil Benefit in recognition of his work delivering climate forecasts in a well-known and credible method.
