SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Unprecedented wildfires ripping through South Korea’s southern regions have destroyed large parts of an ancient Buddhist temple complex, burning down two buildings that had ...

Gounsa Temple, a thousand-year-old temple founded by the Unified Silla monk Uisang, is emerging as a central hub for Korean Buddhist culture and classical literature research following a large-scale ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Officials wraps a Buddha statue with a fire-retardant blanket to protect it from a wildfire, at Gounsa temple in Uiseong ANDONG, ...

Almost all the buildings at the Buddhist Gounsa Temple complex were destroyed in the fires Yasuyoshi Chiba / AFP via Getty Images The largest wildfires in South Korea’s history have blazed for seven ...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Unprecedented wildfires ripping through South Korea’s southern regions have destroyed large parts of an ancient Buddhist temple, ruining two of its three state-designated ...

South Korea redeployed firefighting helicopters after a fatal crash caused a temporary grounding on Wednesday, as authorities struggle to contain “unprecedented” deadly wildfires that have ravaged the ...

At least 24 people were killed and thousands forced to evacuate their homes as a series of deadly wildfires, which the country’s acting president described as its worst ever, spread through South ...

SEOUL, March 26 (UPI) --The death toll from multiple wildfires tearing through the southeastern region of South Korea rose to 24 on Wednesday, officials said, with more than 27,000 residents evacuated ...

SEOUL, South Korea — Unprecedented wildfires ripping through South Korea’s southern regions have destroyed large parts of an ancient Buddhist temple, ruining two of its three state-designated ...