The affected areas saw temperatures reach the emergency criteria over the weekend.<\/p>\n
“An emergency heatwave warning does not simply mean the weather is extremely hot,” Lee said.<\/p>\n
“It indicates conditions in which even healthy people face a significantly elevated risk of serious harm, including heat-related illness and death.”<\/p>\n
People engaged in outdoor activities should stop immediately and move to a cool place, and no one, including children or pets, should be left inside a vehicle, she added.<\/p>\n
Much of the country – including parts of Seoul – remained under heatwave warnings, which are issued when the perceived temperature is expected to stay at 35\u00b0C or higher for two consecutive days.<\/p>\n
Such warnings take both temperature and humidity into account, according to the KMA.<\/p>\n
LONGER HEATWAVES<\/p>\n
Children tried to cool off from the heat on Sunday by running through the water jets at Gwanghwamun Square in central Seoul, an AFP reporter saw.<\/p>\n
People also sought refuge in air-conditioned shopping malls.<\/p>\n
KMA data shows that the average annual number of heatwave days in the country has more than doubled to 19 over the past five years, from eight in the 1970s.<\/p>\n
The average annual number of tropical nights has also jumped from four to 14 over the same period.<\/p>\n
A heatwave day is defined as one with a maximum temperature of at least 33\u00b0C, while a tropical night is one when the overnight low remains 25\u00b0C or above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The affected areas saw temperatures reach the emergency criteria over the weekend. “An emergency heatwave warning does not…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83304,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[29722,31,33,44599],"class_list":["post-83303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-south-korea","tag-heatwave","tag-korea","tag-south-korea","tag-temperature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}