Mount Paektu, an active stratovolcano straddling the border of North Korea and China, is the highest peak on the Korean peninsula and lies at the heart of North Korea’s foundation myth.

The wildfires in March devastated an area larger than the Los Angeles fire and two-thirds the size of Singapore to become its ...

Kim Song-hyun, an officer at the National Institute of Forest Science, records the sounds of forest at Hongneung Forest in Seoul on March 27. Reporter Seo Sung-il When you listen to the sounds of ...

If the former time rings true this year, it would mean that those living in the Mountain and Pacific time zones of the ...

Federal land managers have canceled their proposal to withdraw about 264,000 acres of public land in Nevada’s Ruby Mountain from oil, gas and geothermal development. The U.S. Forest Service said ...

NEW YORK (AP) — After moving to the United States from South Korea at age 6, Jenny Jang found it challenging ... “Coming to ...

Pope Francis offered prayers and expressed deep concern over the deadly wildfires in South Korea, which have claimed ... On March 25, the fire spread to the mountain behind Cheongsong Cathedral ...

China, South Korea and Japan agreed Sunday to strengthen free trade in the face of a raft of new tariffs imposed by US President Donald Trump. The agreement came at a meeting of top trade ...

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 ...

At least six of the court’s eight justices must vote to remove Yoon. South Korea will hold a snap election within 60 days if the court upholds Yoon’s impeachment. The leader of the main ...

South Korea’s blazes have burnt twice as large in a day and officials have described them as the worst natural fire disaster in the country’s history. A wildfire spreads on a mountain in ...

As wildfires in South Korea scorch thousands of acres across its south-east, concerns have been raised over the safety of tourists planning to visit the country. Fires that began burning in ...