Eight runners were taken to hospital after collapsing during the DMZ Peace Marathon in Paju, South Korea, as temperatures approached 30°C — the highest mid-April reading in the Seoul area since modern records began in 1907. The race, held near the heavily fortified Demilitarized Zone separating North and South Korea, saw twelve participants fall ill in total, suffering convulsions, dizziness, and hyperventilation, with one 43-year-old requiring intensive care. Authorities attributed the incidents to runners pushing themselves despite the unseasonable heat, which meteorologists said was caused by a weather system drawing unusually warm air northward across the Korean Peninsula.