Cold snap strains South Korean power - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

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.
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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.

Winter chill returns, two more die of cold in UP - Oneindia News

New Delhi, Jan 16 (PTI) Winter chill returned today inmost of the northern states as the cold wave pushed mercury torecord lows in Shimla and Pahalgam and claimed two more livesin Uttar Pradesh.

Two more persons died -- one each from Hardoi andDeoria -- in Uttar Pradesh, taking the death toll in the statethis winter to 132, officials said.