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 ...

(Photo by YASUYOSHI CHIBA / AFP) 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 ...

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 ...

Charred, black ruins at South Korea's Gounsa temple stood in stark contrast to the kaleidoscope of colours that are a trademark of the country's historic palaces and Buddhist temples.

The fires had burned over 88,000 acres of land, the biggest on record in South Korea, according to the Interior Ministry ... Around two dozen buildings, trees, statues and other things with ...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP ... in charge of the temple. He said that monks and Buddhist faithful managed to move the temple's third “treasure,” a stone Buddha statue reportedly built in ...

A centuries-old Buddhist temple has been destroyed as South Korea struggles to contain ... according to a situation report released by the Interior Safety Ministry.Among those killed were ...

Five days of wildfires, considered one of South Korea ... of the temple. He said that monks and 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 ...