South Korea President Orders All-Out Heatwave Response
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- South Korea's president ordered an all-out government response to a heatwave hitting the Korean Peninsula (per Reuters headline).
- A South Korean province deployed drones to warn elderly farmers amid the heatwave (per Reuters headline).
Why it matters: An all-out presidential directive signals the severity of the heatwave's public health and agricultural toll, and the drone deployment to reach elderly farmers — a demographic especially vulnerable to extreme heat — shows authorities adapting alert methods beyond traditional channels.
