[PHOTO NEWS] Mini electric hand fans used in N. Korea to fight heat wave

By Lim Chang-won Posted : August 3, 2018, 09:33 Updated : August 3, 2018, 09:33

[Yonhap News Photo]


SEOUL -- An image captured from the Korean Central Television, a state-owned broadcaster in Pyongyang, on August 2 showed a North Korean woman carrying a small hand-held electric fan and a brightly colored parasol to cool the heat.

The entire Korean peninsula has been hit by a deadly heat wave that left at least 30 people killed in South Korea. North Korea also warned of unusually high temperatures and droughts which have damaged crops. Weathermen in Pyongyang said temperatures reached 40 degrees Celsius in some areas.

 In the streets of Pyongyang, defectors say many women carry parasols of all colors and sometimes handy electric fans to cool off.


 
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