Wildfires in South ... since the Korea Forest Service started records for wildfires in 1987. More than 35,000 hectares (86,500 acres) of forest have been burned, Lee Han-kyung, disaster and ...

Seoul (AFP) – South Korea on Tuesday marked the 10th anniversary of the country's worst maritime disaster, when hundreds of schoolchildren died after the overloaded Sewol ferry capsized and sank.

Helicopters dumped water over a burning forest in South Korea on Thursday as fire crews ... Lee Han-kyung, deputy head of the government’s disaster response center, told a meeting on Thursday ...

CHEONGSONG, South Korea — Helicopters dumped water over a burning forest in South ... Lee Han-kyung, deputy head of the government’s disaster response center, told a meeting Thursday that ...

But South Korea’s most traumatic peacetime ... frantically saying goodbye to their parents as the cold water filled their cabins. The disaster had been born of greed and negligence.

As the 6,825-tonne Sewol began taking on water the ... to the disasters, (President) Yoon Suk Yeol’s government just keeps trying to hide them and has no plan.” South Korea’s rapid ...

In a country surrounded by the ocean on three sides, like South Korea, engineering solid, dry land over water-logged terrain, a process referred to as land reclamation, can expand territory or ...

Wildfires in South Korea are now "the largest on record" having burned more forest than any previous blaze, the country's disaster chief ... with fire trucks spraying water and fire-retardants ...