Wildfires in South Korea's southern regions have left 24 people dead and destroyed more than 300 structures, including large ...

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 ...

Seoul, South Korea – At least 16 people died and another 19 were injured as wildfires ravaged South Korea’s southern regions amid dry weather and strong winds, government officials said Wednesday.

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 ...

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 ...