Schoolkids Sent Home Due to Record Heat

/Yonhap

Most of the nation will keep sweltering in temperatures above 30 degrees Celsius, according to the Korea Meteorological Administration on Tuesday.

On Tuesday, 30 high schools in the southern port city of Busan sent students who had just returned from their summer vacation home again.

School authorities in Seoul, Incheon and Daegu also told schools that already finished their summer vacation to adjust classroom schedules and refrain from making students exercise outdoors.

The KMA forecast that the heat wave will still be in full swing on Aug. 16, when most middle and high schools end their summer vacation.

No respite is in sight as fewer typhoons than usual are expected at the end of summer this year. According to the KMA, East Asia is currently under the influence of a muggy North Pacific high-pressure front, which is stifling typhoons by blanketing the entire region.

The situation is expected to continue at least until the end of August.

Only six typhoons have arisen in Asia until July, less than half of the 13 that raged in the same period last year.