Unprecedented wildfires ripping through South Korea ... the temple. He said that monks and the Buddhist faithful managed to move the temple’s third “treasure,” a stone Buddha statue ...

Andong, South Korea - At South Korea’s thousand-year-old Gounsa Temple, workers delicately swaddled a giant gilded Buddha statue with a fire-retardant blanket. Hours later much of the temple ...

ANDONG, South Korea (Reuters) - Charred, black ruins at South Korea's Gounsa temple stood on Thursday ... including Buddha statues. At least 1,566 relics were moved from major temples, including ...

Residents of a UNESCO-listed village were ordered to evacuate while a historic Buddhist temple was burned to the ground ... The fires are collectively the third largest in South Korea's history, with ...

SEOUL, South ... Gounsa, a temple built in the 7th century, according to officials from the Korea Heritage Service. Some of the temple’s treasures, including a stone Buddha statue, were ...

Charred remains at Gounsa temple first built in 681 At least 18 heritage sites or objects damaged, destroyed Wildfire is largest ever in South Korea Heritage service deploys to protect historic ...