At South Korea's thousand-year-old Gounsa Temple, workers delicately swaddled a giant gilded Buddha statue with a ...

Officials are racing to relocate priceless historic artifacts and protect Unesco-listed sites from the blazes. Read more at straitstimes.com.

South Korea is battling one of its worst wildfire crises in recent history, with massive infernos leaving the Gounsa Temple, ...

Uprecedented wildfires ripping through South Korea's southern regions have destroyed large parts of an ancient Buddhist ...

An ancient Buddhist temple complex is among the structures burned in some of the worst wildfires ever to hit South Korea.

The death toll from multiple wildfires tearing through the southeastern region of South Korea rose to 24 on Wednesday, ...

Wind-driven wildfires that were among South Korea’s worst ever were ravaging the country’s southern regions, killing 18 ...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Officials in the South Korean city of Andong on Tuesday alerted residents to evacuate to safe areas ...

Gyeongbuk Seobu Cultural Heritage Care Center worker told AFP, saying that a giant gilded Buddha statue was too large to move so had been carefully covered. Hours later, an official at the Korea ...

Five days of wildfires, considered one of South Korea’s worst, have left 24 people dead, destroyed more than 200 structures and forced 27,000 people to evacuate, officials said.