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Beating the heat

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A boy plays with a ball in a swimming pool in southern Seoul, Thursday. Temperatures rose to as high as 33.4 degrees Celsius in Seoul. The highest temperature was in Gyeongju, North Gyeongsang Province, at 39.7 degrees Celsius, the highest July temperature recorded in the country in 75 years. / Yonhap