The Gounsa temple was reportedly originally built in 681 A.D. during the Shilla dynasty that ruled more than half of the Korean Peninsula

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

The wildfires, which burned for a week across South Korea’s southeastern regions, have destroyed thousands of homes and businesses.

As deadly wildfires raged across South Korea's southeast, social media posts shared a fabricated news report alongside unsubstantiated claims that one of the blazes was deliberately started by a Chinese exchange student.

Overnight rain helped douse some of South Korea's worst-ever wildfires, authorities said Friday, as the death toll from the unprecedented blazes raging for nearly a week reached 28.More than a dozen fires have ravaged large areas of the country's southeast,