USFK last lent a hand fighting wildfires in South Korea three years ago. Helicopters from the 2nd Infantry Division were deployed at Seoul’s request in March 2022 to wildfires in the mountains ...

A pilot was killed on Wednesday when a firefighting helicopter crashed while helping extinguish wildfire in the town of Uiseong, southeastern South Korea. The helicopter crashed into a mountain in ...

The country’s largest blaze on record has left 27 dead and destroyed heritage sites, including two 1,000-year-old temples.

North Korea has sent at least 3,000 more soldiers to fight in Ukraine and replace the hundreds already killed, South Korea’s military reported Thursday. The reinforcements were shipped off to ...

A helicopter has crashed amid savage wildfires which have killed at least 18 people in South Korea. The chopper was ... But efforts to fight the fires were partially suspended overnight as the ...

South Korea is struggling to contain wildfires ravaging ... police and civil servants and 120 helicopters had been dispatched to five areas to fight the fires. By Monday morning, firefighters ...

South Korea, on Tuesday. (Yonhap via Reuters) Kim Jong-gun, a spokesperson for the Korea Forest Service, said the agency planned to secure more wildfire-fighting helicopters, responding to ...

SEOUL, South Korea — At least 16 people ... also near Uiseong. The Korea Forest Service said firefighters were fighting at least five active wildfires nationwide as of Wednesday morning.

South Korea’s air force has said that one of its fighter jets accidentally dropped eight bombs in the wrong place during a training exercise, resulting in civilian injuries. “Eight MK-82 ...

Seoul — South Korea's worst wildfires on record have scorched a massive swath of the country's southeast over the past five days and killed at least 24 people, according to the national fire ...