South Korea gives an extraordinary insight into its opulent cultural heritage through its traditional village life ...

home to the Hahoe Folk Village, a UNESCO World Heritage site. Another heritage site, the Byeongsan Seowon Confucian Academy, was also at risk. Many of South Korea's historic buildings are made of ...

Their village is just a stone's throw from North Korea. So whatever their political leanings, Tongilchon residents all want ...

Situated on the eastern shore of South Korea rests an unassuming village home to resettled North Korean refugees who fled southward during the Korean War, often referred to as the Forgotten War in ...

Almost all the buildings at the Buddhist Gounsa Temple complex were destroyed in the fires Yasuyoshi Chiba / AFP via Getty Images The largest wildfires in South Korea’s history have blazed for ...

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 ...

YEONGYANG, South Korea >> As the flames of a raging wildfire swept towards the town of Samui-ri in South Korea’s mountainous southeast this week, a village leader surnamed Kwon rushed home to ...