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[Global Times Comprehensive Report] According to Yonhap News Agency on the 18th, the Korea Meteorological Administration said that it has decided to compile the "High Temperature White Paper" for the first time and plans to release it this year. The white paper will include records of high temperatures experienced in South Korea, analyze the causes of high temperatures, medium- and long-term high temperature outlooks, and the impact of high temperatures on society. It will be written by Lee Myeong-in (sound), an authority in the field of meteorological research in South Korea and director of the High Temperature Research Center of the Ulsan Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST). The Korea Meteorological Administration has previously issued white papers on plum rains, typhoons, and El Niño phenomena, but it is the first time to issue a high temperature white paper.

According to reports, the Korea Meteorological Administration plans to release a white paper on high temperatures because the high temperature and hot weather, including this year, has become more severe than in the past and has reached a disaster level. In 2018, South Korea had 31 days with high temperatures, and 4,526 people suffered from heat stroke and other heat-related diseases, of which 48 died. As South Korea encountered the "worst heat weather in history" in 2018, high temperatures were included in the category of natural disasters defined in South Korea's Disaster Safety Act in 2019.

The heatwave disaster that South Korea has suffered this year is second only to that in 2018, with high temperatures both day and night. Water vapor in the atmosphere triggers a greenhouse effect, and the daytime heat has not dissipated at night. Long-term "tropical nights" (the lowest nighttime temperature is above 25 degrees Celsius) have occurred across the country. From May 20, when the high temperature monitoring was launched, to the 15th of this month, a total of 2,652 people have suffered from heatstroke in South Korea, with 22 deaths. (Han Wen)