Photo: AFP At South Korea's thousand-year-old Gounsa Temple, workers delicately swaddled a giant gilded Buddha statue with a ...

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

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 ... with a banquet marking her 73rd birthday — although the aristocratic village ...

Hours later much of the temple burned down in one of the deadliest wildfires to hit South Korea — but the Buddha and the wooden hall it was in survived. All across the country’s southeast ...

(Photo by YASUYOSHI CHIBA / AFP) At South Korea’s thousand-year-old Gounsa Temple, workers delicately swaddled a giant gilded Buddha statue ... marking her 73rd birthday — although the ...