South Korea fires latest: 27 killed and 1,000-year-old Buddhist temples destroyed in biggest wildfire on record
South Korea fires latest: 27 killed and 1,000-year-old Buddhist temples destroyed in biggest wildfire on record - ‘We are ...
Huge South Korea wildfires kill 27 and threaten to destroy ancient temples
But the largest culprit is the wind and dry land. The ideal environment for South Korea's largest ever wildfire has been ...
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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 ...
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Temple bells part of scrap metal used to fuel Japan’s war effort
In 1941, when the Japanese government was salvaging metal from wherever it could for the looming Pacific War, the nation’s largest Buddhist group readily handed over its temple bells for the ...
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South Korea fires latest: 27 killed and 1,000-year-old Buddhist temples destroyed in biggest wildfire on record
The fire that began in Uiseong county is now the biggest single forest fire in ... including historic 7th-century Buddhist temple that was reduced to ashes as the fire continued to expand.