The "unprecedented" crisis remains critical, according to acting president Han Duck-soo, who said the fires are "rewriting the record books for the worst wildfires ... in the country's history. About ...

South Korea is experiencing the worst forest fires in its history, and authorities and firefighters continue to try to contain the fires that have been raging in the southeast of the country for ...

It was April 20, 1963, a day that would become known as “Black Saturday” as 79 brush fires devoured New Jersey’s Pine Barrens ...

Wildfires that swept through southeastern Korea were possibly the worst in the nation's history, killing at least 27 people, destroying almost 37,000 hectares of forest and displacing more than ...

South Korea's acting president, Han Duck-soo said the fires were "unprecedented" and is "rewriting the record books for the worst wildfires in our nation's history". Thousands of firefighters and ...

"It's pretty unusual to have so many intentionally set fires ... for the worst, and hoping for the best," Mike McCann said in a statement released by the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest.

Wildfires raging in South Korea doubled in size on Thursday from a day earlier, as authorities called the blazes the country's worst ... the fires that began in the central Uiseong county, making it ...

Thousands of personnel and dozens of helicopters were deployed again on Thursday to combat what are being described as the country’s worst wildfires. Korea Forest Service chief Lim Sang Seop ...

The death toll includes the pilot of a firefighting helicopter that crashed in South Korea’s Uiseong county while battling wildfires in the region.

More than a dozen fires have been fanned by high winds and dry conditions, killing 30 people and burning more than 48,000ha of forest, the worst of its kind recorded in South Korea, according to ...