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 ...

A 200-year-old pine tree at Bongjeongsa temple in Andong -- the oldest wooden structure in South Korea and a UNESCO-listed site -- was cut down in a bid to preserve the temple itself. "We had no ...

Huge plumes of smoke turned the sky over the village grey and huge chunks of ash floated in the air, AFP reporters saw, with fire trucks spraying water and fire-retardants onto the historic site in a ...

As South Korea's Constitutional Court mulls whether ... Polymarket, the world's largest cryptocurrency-based political betting site, is taking bets on Yoon's fate.

South Korean and U.S. troops will begin their large annual joint military drills next week to enhance their readiness against North Korean threats.

A South Korean man tending a family ... according to photos from the Jogye Order of Korean Buddhism. Some of the artifacts that were in the historic site, including the seated stone Buddha ...

The wildfires plaguing South Korea’s southeast region continued to rage on Tuesday, threatening a world heritage site and forcing thousands more residents to evacuate their homes. With a ...

Seoul, South ... site. Officials said the pilots of the two jets had more than 200-400 hours of flying time. But Lee said they likely piloted KF-16s only two to three years. The South Korean ...

Prosecutors released South Korea’s President Yoon Suk Yeol from custody Saturday after deciding not to appeal a decision by the Seoul Central District Court to free him. The embattled leader of ...

the South Korean air force repeated its initial assessment from last week that one of the KF-16 pilots had entered the wrong coordinates for a bombing site. The unidentified pilot didn't recognize ...