폭염 닷새 만에 온열질환자 1038명…올해 전체의 33.6%

1,038 Heat-Illness Cases in Five Days — a Third of Korea's 2026 Total

Part of the August 10, 2026 daily edition

질병관리청에 따르면 5월 15일부터 8월 7일까지 전국 516개 참여 의료기관에서 신고된 온열질환자는 모두 3089명으로 잠정 집계됐습니다. 이 가운데 8월 3일부터 7일까지 닷새 동안 나온 환자가 1038명으로, 올해 전체의 33.6%를 차지했습니다. 특히 8월 5일에는 하루에만 223명이 신고돼 올해 감시체계 가동 이후 가장 많았습니다. 환자를 나이별로 보면 65세 이상이 1083명으로 전체의 35.1%였습니다. 발생 장소는 실외가 2313명으로 전체의 74.9%를 차지해 실내보다 훨씬 많았습니다.

Translation

According to the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA), the number of heat-illness patients reported by the 516 participating medical institutions nationwide from May 15 to August 7 came to 3,089 in a provisional tally. Of those, 1,038 came out in the five days from August 3 to August 7 alone, accounting for 33.6% of this year's total. On August 5 in particular, 223 cases were reported in a single day, the highest daily figure since this year's surveillance system began operating. By age, people aged 65 and over numbered 1,083, or 35.1% of the total. By location, 2,313 cases (74.9%) occurred outdoors, far more than indoors.

Vocabulary

온열질환명사 (noun)heat-related illness (the umbrella term — heatstroke, heat exhaustion, heat cramps and heat syncope together, not heatstroke alone)
신고되다동사 (verb)to be reported (to an authority), be filed as a report
집계되다동사 (verb)to be tallied up, be counted (into a total)
잠정명사 (noun)provisional, tentative (a figure that may still change)
감시체계명사 (noun)surveillance system (here: the emergency-room reporting network)
차지하다동사 (verb)to account for, make up (a share of a total)
실외명사 (noun)outdoors, outside (opposite: 실내 indoors)

Grammar points

N에 따르면according to N

Attaches to a noun naming the source of the information — an agency, a survey, a report. It is the standard way Korean news marks a fact as someone else's statement rather than the writer's own claim, so a sentence that opens with it usually closes with a plain reporting ending like -습니다. Do not confuse it with N에 따라, which means 'in accordance with N'.

Example: 기상청에 따르면 이번 주말에는 비가 내리겠습니다.

According to the Korea Meteorological Administration, it will rain this weekend.

N 가운데among N, out of N

After a noun (often a total or a group), N 가운데 picks out a subset of it: 3,089명 가운데 1,038명 = '1,038 out of 3,089'. 이 가운데 ('of these') is the fixed form used to continue from the number in the previous sentence, which is why statistics articles repeat it. 중에 is the everyday equivalent; 가운데 is the written, formal one.

Example: 지원자 100명 가운데 20명이 합격했습니다.

Twenty out of the 100 applicants passed.

N보다 훨씬far more ~ than N

N보다 marks the thing being compared against, and 훨씬 ('by far') strengthens the gap that follows. The order is fixed: the standard of comparison comes first, then 훨씬, then the adjective or verb — 실내보다 훨씬 많았습니다. Use 더 for a plain 'more'; 훨씬 says the difference is large.

Example: 올해 여름은 작년보다 훨씬 덥습니다.

This summer is far hotter than last year.

폭염 닷새 만에 온열질환자 1038명…올해 전체의 33.6%

Translation

Vocabulary

Grammar points

N에 따르면according to N

N 가운데among N, out of N

N보다 훨씬far more ~ than N

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