Prof. Jin-Soo Kim (Climate System Lab, KAIST Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering) was interviewed by Chungcheong Today for its August 7, 2026 report "Typhoons and easterly winds stacked on a double high-pressure system – heatwaves grow fiercer every summer [Deadly heat emergency]," on the causes of the record-breaking heatwave over the Korean Peninsula and the influence of climate change.
The article explains how a Tibetan high and an expanded North Pacific high formed a "heat dome" over Korea, intensified by typhoons and easterly winds crossing the Taebaek Mountains, pushing Yangsan to a national record of 42.5°C on August 2. Prof. Kim noted that, under past conditions, even such a combination of factors would have produced temperatures of about 35–36°C, but that global warming has raised the baseline so that 39°C is now reachable, and that hotter summers with broken records are likely to recur.
Related: Chungcheong Today article (Korean) | Source: KAIST Climate System Lab – News
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