Following the historical rainfall of nearly 1,000 millimeters dumped on Geoje over three days, urgent calls are made to change the country's weather disaster response system as such extreme rainfall is starting to become an annual event. During a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday, President Lee Jae Myung instructed officials to devise measures to revamp the country’s response system, citing the urgent need to modernize a system built around past climate conditions. Extreme rainfall becoming more frequent According to the Ministry of the Interior and Safety, a total of 968.1 millimeters of rain fell over Geoje over three days beginning last Saturday. At its peak, some 124.5 millimeters of rain fell just over one hour starting at 1:32 a.m. Monday, an intensity statistically expected only once every 200 years. Nearby Tongyeong also received 777.8 millimeters of rain between last Saturday and Tuesday. A climate analysis report released by the ministry showed that the number of incidents of heavy rainfall exceeding 50 millimeters per hour during a decade in the 1970s was ten; the number steadily g