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South Korea’s Worst Ever Wildfires Ravage Ancient Buddhist Temples and Menace Historic Villages
One monk said his old temple was ‘reduced to heaps of ashes,’ as the fires continue to rage across the country ...
Huge South Korea wildfires kill 27 and threaten to destroy ancient temples
The fires are posing a massive threat to cultural sites. In the city of Uiseong, the fire destroyed the Gounsa temple, one of ...
Huge South Korea wildfires kill dozens and torch ancient temples
The wildfires in South Korea, which started on 21 March and have killed at least 26 people, have since spread to cover more ...
Satellite images reveal how South Korea wildfires spread
Severe wildfires have been spreading rapidly in South Korea. Ancient temples are among the buildings that have been destroyed ...
South Korea’s centuries-old Gounsa temple is left in ruins by unprecedented wildfires
Unprecedented wildfires ripping through South Korea’s southern regions have destroyed large parts of an ancient Buddhist ...
Workers save Buddha as S. Korea's wildfires raze ancient temple
At South Korea's thousand-year-old Gounsa Temple, workers delicately swaddled a giant gilded Buddha statue with a ...
Mapped: Satellite images reveal how South Korea wildfires spread
Multiple wildfires, which have killed 28 people and razed vast swaths of land in the Gyeongsangbuk-do Province, South Korea ...
New York Post6d
South Korea’s centuries-old Gounsa temple is left in ruins by unprecedented wildfires
While it doesn’t house buildings constructed during that ancient period ... AFP via Getty Images Both were constructed during the Joseon dynasty, the last one on the Korean Peninsula, and ...
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South Korea wildfires 'largest on record': disaster chief
Wildfires in South Korea are now the largest and deadliest on record, having burned more forest and killed more people than ...