Cold snap strains South Korean power
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South Korean public servants are being ordered to switch off heating as a severe cold snap strains power resources.
The South Korean government has ordered all ministries and state-run companies to shut down their heating for set periods during the day in a bid to take pressure off the power grid.
Officials will even patrol state buildings to ensure that heating has been turned off.
A government spokesman says public servants are encouraged to wear thermal underwear in their offices to cope with the cold.
Yesterday's temperature in Seoul fell to a 10-year record low of minus 18 degrees Celsius, with large sections of the Han river, which bisects the capital, frozen over.
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