Firefighters are struggling to contain the wildfires, which continue to grow rapidly in size, fuelled by strong winds.

ANDONG, South Korea (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 with at least ...

SEOUL, April 18 (Yonhap) -- The areas damaged by the recent large-scale wildfires in the southeastern provinces of Gyeongsang ...

As an enormous forest fire spreads uncontrollably in the Yeongnam ... Aging Population Dominates Farming, Fishing Households in South Korea Last year, more than half of the population in farming ...

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 ...

A South Korean man tending a family grave is suspected of sparking one of the ‘unprecedented’ wildfires that ravaged the southeastern part of the country last week, the National Police Agency said ...

The death toll in the wildfires raging across South Korea's southeastern region rose to 24 and the pilot of a firefighting helicopter was killed when the aircraft crashed on Wednesday, as the country ...

Deadly wildfires spread across South Korea’s southeastern region on Tuesday ... while four other deaths were linked to another fire from Sancheong county, according to the safety ministry.

In March 2025, wildfires swept across South Korea, scorching vast swaths of land and prompting a massive emergency response.

A wildfire that started in the North Korean part of the Demilitarized Zone has spread throughout the eastern part of the ...