ANGKOR RESOURCES CORP. (TSXV: ANK) ("ANGKOR" OR "THE COMPANY") announces commencement of drilling on the Andong Bor ground to ...

SEOUL, June 23 (Yonhap) -- Kwon Oh-eul, nominated as the first veterans minister under President Lee Jae Myung, is a ...

TWO New People’s Army (NPA) rebels, both wounded and minors, were arrested by government troops in Kalamansig, Sultan Kudarat ...

Days after South Korean police confirmed that the body found in Andong Dam in Andong, North Gyeongsang Province, belonged to ...

Three members of the New People’s Army and a soldier from the Army’s 37th Infantry Battalion were killed in a gunfight in ...

South Korea: Raging Wildfire Threatens UNESCO Site in Andong. Stuti Mishra 27 March 2025 10:34. Climate crisis fuelling early wildfire surges in 2025, expert warns.

In the mid-1920s, the ancient city of Andong, North Gyeongsang Province, was undergoing rapid change. The city walls that once guarded it were nearly impossible to find and the south and west ...

In Andong, truck driver Lee Seung-joo said he saw the mountains burn as he drove by. "It was like the apocalypse," the 39-year-old said, according to AFP.

Officials in Andong and other southeastern cities and towns have ordered residents to evacuate as firefighters struggle to contain the fires, which have burned more than 17,000 hectares (42,000 ...

Andong Hahoe folk village, a UNESCO World Heritage site, posted a notice on its website Wednesday saying it was under threat from approaching wildfires and would be closed to visitors.

ANDONG, South Korea, March 27 (Reuters) - Wildfires raging in South Korea doubled in size on Thursday from a day earlier, as authorities called the blazes the country's worst natural fire disaster ...

South Korea has relied on a fleet of more than 120 helicopters to battle the fires across several regions – including Gyeongbuk, Uiseong, Andong, Cheongsong, Yeongyang and Sancheong – which ...