South Korean business giants were bracing themselves for massive disruption to their exports today after the country’s worst typhoon on record wrecked its main port and left 115 people dead or missing.

SOUTH KOREAN soldiers and rescue workers searched for dozens of missing people late yesterday after the country’s most powerful typhoon on record killed at least 87 and inflicted damage worth nearly €600 million.

Thousands of soldiers searched for bodies, cleared roads and distributed relief supplies today as the death toll climbed to 85 from South Korea’s most powerful typhoon in at least a century.

Gale force winds and heavy rain from a powerful typhoon lashed South Korea overnight, killing at least 33 people and forcing thousands of others to seek emergency shelter today, the country’s anti-disaster office said.