Sweltering Heat Persists in Daytime... Peak of Summer Vacation Season

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Scorching heat well above 30 degrees Celsius (86 degrees Fahrenheit) continued during the middle of the day. Downtown water parks and valleys were packed all day long with vacationers seeking to cool off.

Reporter Kim Gyu-ri captures the scene.

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People wearing goggles and holding water guns spray refreshing streams of water at one another.

Friends, families, and even strangers quickly bond over a simple water gun.

[Ike Alanja and Jung Bu-young: I am from Austria. Europe is not this humid. So I think it feels even hotter here.]

[Park So-eun and Kim Min-seo / Seo-gu, Incheon: We came aiming to be the best-dressed. I understand the water gun festival reopened after COVID-19, so this is our first time participating.]

A water gun festival was held right in the middle of downtown Seoul.

I will also pick up a water gun and put up a fight against the heat.

Citizens thoroughly enjoyed the midsummer festival, shooting and getting hit by streams of water.

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A children's water park in the city center.

Children happily splash around under the falling streams of water, while parents hold their children's hands and enjoy the water together.

[Kim Hyuk and Kim Ju-heon / Songpa-gu, Seoul: The baby loves playing in the water so much. They also like coming out and running around, and it is great that the water is not deep.]

[Byun Da-hye and Byun Do-hun / Gwanak-gu, Seoul: Last week, it felt like the sun was right next to me, but now it feels like the sun has moved a little further away.]

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Right next to the water park, children catch fish in the valley and gather with friends to take pictures and make memories.

Although the heat seems to have subsided slightly past Ipchu (the onset of autumn), the valleys remain crowded with vacationers escaping the heat.

Some ride together on a crocodile-shaped tube to enjoy the water.

[Han Ye-jin / Siheung, Gyeonggi Province: We came to play in the water before summer vacation ends. We are going to play, go down, and eat ramyeon....]

It was a day that added summer memories amid clear and refreshing splashes of water.

(Camera filming: Yang Ji-hoon | Video editing: Choi Hye-ran)
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