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South Korea redeployed firefighting helicopters after a fatal crash caused a temporary grounding on Wednesday as authorities ...
Charred, black ruins at South Korea's Gounsa temple stood in stark contrast to the kaleidoscope of colours that are a ...
Residents of a UNESCO-listed village were ordered to evacuate while a historic Buddhist temple was burned to the ground Tuesday as South Korea scrambled to contain worsening wildfires. Blazes tearing ...
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 been designated ...
The multiple fires, which left 30 people dead and thousands of structures – including a centuries-old Buddhist temple - ...
The fires have also forced the evacuation of 37,185 residents, including 29,911 in the counties of Uiseong and Andong, 190 kilometers from Seoul. South Korea is experiencing the worst forest fires in ...
One monk said his old temple was ‘reduced to heaps of ashes,’ as the fires continue to rage across the country ...
But the largest culprit is the wind and dry land. The ideal environment for South Korea's largest ever wildfire has been building for the past few weeks. It's only March, but we've already seen ...
The wildfires in March devastated an area larger than the Los Angeles fire and two-thirds the size of Singapore to become its ...
Aerial photos and satellite images show large blackened patches across the region, particularly near Uiseong, where the firefront moved with astonishing speed, reaching the coastal town of Yeongdeok, ...
The Gounsa temple was reportedly originally built in 681 A.D. during the Shilla dynasty that ruled more than half of the Korean Peninsula ...