The first tour is set to take place Feb. 12 to 18, when major celebrations are planned for the birthday of the country's late ...

A Goryeo-era Buddha Statue, looted by Japanese pirates and later stolen by thieves and brought back to Korea, is set to make a temporary return to its original home. The 14th-century Korean ...

A 14th-century Buddhist statue that Korea’s Supreme Court ruled should be returned to the Japanese temple that held it before it was smuggled into Korea will be sent to Japan in May. The Gilt ...

South Korean Culture, Sports and Tourism Minister Yu In-chon places a bouquet in front of a statue of Ahn Jung-geun at Ahn's ...

Daejeon, South Korea, Jan. 24 (Jiji Press)--A ceremony to return a stolen Buddha statue to a Japanese temple on Tsushima Island, Nagasaki Prefecture, was held in the central South Korea city of ...

TSUSHIMA, Nagasaki (Japan): A former chief priest of a temple in Tsushima, Nagasaki Prefecture, from which a Buddha statue was stolen and taken to South Korea, said he was “relieved” about ...

Ukraine's Special Operations Forces said a North Korean soldier blew himself up with a grenade in Kursk, Russia.

Digital travel platform Agoda shares a list of must-visit temples across Southeast Asia. As the year begins, it's an ideal ...

The seated Gilt-Bronze Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva statue (right), a Korea's Goryeo-era artifact measuring 50.5 cm in height, was stolen in 2012 by a South Korean theft ring from Kannon Temple in ...

North Koreans also bow to statues of Kim Jong Il ... “there are a lot of people who have been waiting to go to North Korea,” Greg Vaczi of Koryo Tours told NBC News on Tuesday.

KULAI: Honeymooners Muhammad Fadzhil Dali and Faraliza Mahmud felt like they had been transported to South Korea while strolling through a serene, lush bamboo valley – but they were actually in Johor.