Off-duty firefighter dives into Yangju reservoir to save a drowning person

On a day off, a walk with his wife turned into a rescue. On 10 November, a man jumped bare-handed into a reservoir in Yangju, Gyeonggi Province, to save someone who had fallen into the water.

He decided the rescue team would not arrive in time. Despite his wife's attempts to hold him back, he swam into deep water with no equipment at all.

Out in the middle of the reservoir, the person in the water kept going under and coming back up. The man reached them and kept shouting: "Breathe, look at the sky!" and "Let's live through this together!"

Another firefighter then arrived at the scene. Working together, the two brought the person back to shore, and everyone got out of the water safely.

The man turned out to be a firefighter himself, who risked his life even on a holiday.