The Unesco-listed Hahoe Folk Village in South Korea has been evacuated and a 1,300-year-old Buddhist temple burned to the ground after wildfires tore through southern parts of the country this week. A major Buddhist landmark,

One monk said his old temple was ‘reduced to heaps of ashes,’ as the fires continue to rage across the country

An ancient Buddhist temple complex is among the structures burned in some of the worst wildfires ever to hit South Korea.