SEOUL, Sept. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — An unprecedented autumn heat wave is set to reach its peak on Wednesday, the state weather agency said, as the daytime high is forecast to rise to a record 35 C in Seoul amid a heat wave advisory issued for almost all regions of the country. The Korea Meteorological [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Overnight temperatures in Seoul stayed above 25 C, marking the season’s latest tropical night since meteorological observation began, the state weather agency said Tuesday. The lowest nighttime temperature overnight in the capital city was 25.6 C at 6 a.m., another tropical night that refers to a phenomenon where temperatures [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s average daily maximum power demand reached a new high in August as the country experienced scorching summer heat that persisted throughout the month, data showed Monday. The country’s peak power demand in August averaged 87.8 gigawatts, a 6.1 percent increase from a year earlier, according to the [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of heat-related patients has exceeded 3,000 so far this year, as scorching heat continues to sweep across the nation, health authorities said Friday. The total number of such patients had reached 3,019 as of Wednesday since May 20, when the government began monitoring cases for the year, [...]
POHANG, Aug. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – “Fish farms in Pohang are on the brink of shutting down. We’re losing thousands to tens of thousands of fish daily,” lamented Lee Tae-hyung, a fish farm owner in Guryongpo-eup, Nam-gu in the city of Pohang, on August 22. Lee’s distress highlights the severe impact of recent high sea temperatures [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Health authorities plan to focus on treating COVID-19 in high-risk patients as this year’s summer wave is expected to peak by the end of this month, the chief of the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) said Wednesday. KDCA Commissioner Jee Young-mee told reporters that she expects the [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – For Ko, a 31-year-old office worker who commutes via the Nambu Bus Terminal station on Seoul’s Subway Line 3, summer mornings and evenings are a sweaty ordeal. “It feels like a sauna in there,” she said, describing her daily struggle with the lack of air conditioning in the subway station. [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 19 (Korea Bizwire) –As the country braces for an intensifying heat wave, the Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA) issued a statement Monday indicating that relief is not on the horizon, even with the approach of Typhoon Jongdari. Currently positioned approximately 360 kilometers southwest of Japan’s Okinawa, Typhoon Jongdari is charting a path northward, toward [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – With an unprecedented heat wave engulfing the Korean Peninsula this summer, many South Koreans are experiencing a stark awakening to the realities of climate change, prompting calls for urgent action. On August 16, Seoul’s daytime temperature peaked at 34.3 degrees Celsius, according to the Korea Meteorological Administration. Even after the [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — A total of 21 people have died from heat-related illnesses so far this year as one of the most severe heat waves continues across the nation, officials said Wednesday. The death toll related to heat-related illnesses, recorded from May 20 to Monday, rose to 21, data from the interior [...]