Depicted by the statue is the Buddha Amitābha, a prominent figure in Mahayana Buddhism.

One monk said his old temple was ‘reduced to heaps of ashes,’ as the fires continue to rage across the country ...

Wildfires in South Korea's southern regions have left 24 people dead and destroyed more than 300 structures, including large ...

The wildfires in South Korea, which started on 21 March and have killed at least 26 people, have since spread to cover more than 36,000 hectares - larger than recent wildfires that have similarly made ...

Andong, South Korea - At South Korea’s thousand-year-old Gounsa Temple, workers delicately swaddled a giant gilded Buddha statue with a ... that once hung on an ancient wooden structure nearby ...