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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Wildfires in South Korea are now the largest and deadliest on record, having burned more forest and killed more people than ...

disaster and safety division chief said, adding that the fire was still spreading "rapidly". The extent of damage makes it South Korea's largest ever wildfire, after an inferno in April 2000 that ...

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