{"id":92530,"date":"2026-08-02T18:41:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T18:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=92530"},"modified":"2026-08-02T18:41:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T18:41:07","slug":"south-korea-bakes-in-highest-temperatures-ever-recorded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/08\/02\/south-korea-bakes-in-highest-temperatures-ever-recorded\/","title":{"rendered":"South Korea bakes in highest temperatures ever recorded"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> < 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA29ekyr.img?w=768&h=511&m=6&x=273&y=296&s=105&d=105\" alt=\"South Korea registered its highest temperature since records began more than a century ago on August 2 (AFP\/Getty)\" \/><\/p>\n<p>South Korea issued a severe heatwave warning as it recorded its highest ever temperature of 42.5C on Sunday, prompting the government to activate an emergency disaster response <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/weather\/extreme-weather-events\/south-korea-bakes-in-highest-temperatures-ever-recorded\/ar-AA29f41K?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=6a6f8a1f50de468abfb6e78a98288eb2&ei=25\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>South Korea issued a severe heatwave warning as it recorded its highest ever temperature of 42.5C on Sunday, prompting the government to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":92531,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Heat-Korea.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92532,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92530\/revisions\/92532"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}