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Potatoes 'boiling' in ground, livestock dead: Record heat ruins harvest in South Korea, Japan, Hong Kong

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 since modern weather observations began in 1904.

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