Charred, black ruins at South Korea's Gounsa temple stood in stark contrast to the kaleidoscope of colours that are a trademark of the country's historic palaces and Buddhist temples.

Chon, administrator of the National Heritage Service, inspects a seated Buddha statue in Bongjeong Temple in Andong, North ...

Precious historical relics have been destroyed or damaged and more are under threat as wildfires rage across heritage-rich ...

He said that monks and the Buddhist faithful managed to move the temple’s third “treasure,” a stone Buddha statue reportedly built in the 8th century, to a safe place. Five days of wildfires ...