In a potato field in Yanggu County, 130km northeast of Seoul, Lee Sang-hyuk dug into the soil and found nothing worth saving. A week earlier the crop, in Gangwon Province, had looked fine. Now the potatoes came up soft and collapsing, “like boiled potatoes,” spoiled by heat that had turned the groun

South Korean farmers are suffering in record heat, as Hong Kong reports its highest ever temperature and Japan swelters through newly designated ‘cruelly hot’ days

South Korea recorded its hottest summer on record this year, with the southeastern city of Yangsan reaching 42.5°C on August 2, the highest temperature recorded in the country…