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One of the city's most popular attractions, the Jade Buddha Temple impresses visitors with its legion of statues. The temple was originally built to house two jade statues brought in from Burma.

At South Korea's thousand-year-old Gounsa Temple, workers delicately swaddled a giant gilded Buddha statue with a fire-retardant blanket. Hours later much of the temple burned down in one of the ...

Hours later much of the temple burned down in one of the deadliest wildfires to hit South Korea -- but the Buddha and the wooden hall it was in survived. All across the country's southeast ...

One of the most devastating losses came in Uiseong, where the historic Gounsa Temple, built in the 7th century, was reduced to ashes. (Reuters) South Korea is grappling with one of its worst ...