Families decorate their homes with lanterns and gather for feasts. Buddha’s Birthday is a national holiday in South Korea. The highlight of the celebration in Seoul is the Lotus Lantern Festival ...

At South Korea's thousand-year-old Gounsa Temple, workers delicately swaddled a giant gilded Buddha statue with a fire-retardant blanket ... in 1999 during her four-day visit to South Korea and was ...

A lantern tower in the shape of the national treasure Mireuksa Temple Site Stone Pagoda is lit ahead of Buddha's birthday at ...

Photo: AFP At South Korea's thousand-year-old Gounsa Temple, workers delicately swaddled a giant gilded Buddha statue with a fire-retardant blanket ... during her four-day visit to South Korea and was ...