August has always been South Korea’s hottest month, but this year is heading for the record books. Much of the country is under “severe heat warnings” defined a

South Korea's summer heat has killed 16 people so far this year, the interior ministry said Tuesday, as the nation swelters in a wave of searing weather.

The nation's weather agency says Yangsan, a southeastern inland city sitting in a basin, recorded a temperature of 42.5 degrees Celsius on August 2, the highest temperature…